Strategy & Operations Lead, Germany

AI research and deployment company building and deploying frontier AI products, including ChatGPT, Codex, and its API platform.

41 current maintainers27 active leads7 new active leads120 lead step-downs17 early lead departures
San Francisco, United States
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OpenAI’s mission is to ensure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. It consists of the nonprofit OpenAI Foundation and OpenAI Group, a public benefit corporation governed by the Foundation.

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About the Role

You will develop country strategies, identify market opportunities and barriers, and align cross-functional teams around priorities. You'll personally drive initiatives from diagnosis to delivery, with a primary focus on Consumer and adjacent B2B impact, going deep in priority markets while building approaches that scale across EMEA. The role is hybrid in Munich or Berlin.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in growth, strategy, business operations or quantitative analytics
  • Experience developing country, regional or multi-market strategies
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills including forecasting, financial modeling and growth metrics
  • Examples of taking initiatives from insight through launch and measurement
  • Understanding of European markets
  • Ability to influence without formal authority
  • Deep interest in AI and alignment with OpenAI's mission

Responsibilities

  • Build country strategies, plans, priorities and forecasts for key European markets
  • Drive growth and conversion using data, customer insight and experimentation
  • Lead market expansion and localization
  • Move initiatives from diagnosis through delivery, measurement and iteration
  • Lead cross-functional teams across Product, Growth, Marketing, Partnerships, Finance, Research, Operations and Compliance
  • Represent European market insight in global roadmaps
  • Define success metrics and determine when to replicate local approaches

Benefits

  • Relocation assistance