At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Employment
- Full-time
- Location
- Tokyo
About OpenAI
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.
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About the role
- OpenAI is seeking a Growth Lead in Japan to shape and execute ChatGPT’s growth plans.
- The role partners with the Japan GM to understand local users, identify growth opportunities, and translate those priorities into product improvements, funnel optimizations, and performance marketing tests.
- It combines product growth and funnel optimization with performance marketing by connecting audience, message, creative, and channel learnings to better in-product journeys.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Japan GM to set a country growth plan and roadmap priorities, with clear hypotheses, owners, dependencies, and measurable outcomes.
- Use user research, funnel and cohort data, and competitive insight to find local friction and prioritize the opportunities that matter most to users.
- Run performance marketing tests in collaboration with regional marketers across relevant channels, creators, and partners; use incrementality, CAC, payback, and LTV to decide what to scale.
- Design and run rigorous experiments across onboarding, activation, repeat usage, re-engagement, and paid conversion; measure incremental impact and iterate.
- Partner with regional Marketing and central media teams to brief and prioritize audience, positioning, creative, and channel tests based on the country plan.
- Own the country growth scorecard across acquisition, retention, paid conversion, and unit economics, distinguishing incremental user and revenue gains and learnings.
- Run the growth operating cadence with the GM and regional teams, aligning central and local partners on results, trade-offs, dependencies, and next steps.
- Build and operate segmentation, lifecycle journeys, growth tooling, performance marketing and product experimentation capabilities that can be scaled across markets.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience across product growth, growth marketing, data science, or growth strategy and operations, with hands-on execution in a fast-moving technology company.
- A user-first track record of turning local research and behavior into product and growth priorities, then shipping improvements with measurable impact.
- Strong command of acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization funnels, including technically rigorous experimentation and interpretation.
- Practical performance marketing experience across audience, channel, creative, and measurement decisions, and the ability to partner effectively with media specialists.
- Analytical fluency in cohort analysis and growth economics, including incrementality, LTV, CAC, payback, and contribution margin.
- Experience adapting and running campaigns across markets, using local audience behavior, channels, language, and cultural context to improve relevance and performance at scale.
- Experience owning growth goals and delivering measurable user or revenue outcomes across product and marketing levers.
- The ability to influence and align central and regional teams, translate local needs into scalable approaches, and make progress through ambiguity.
Workplace
- Travel as needed for key cross-functional sprints and regional collaboration.
Skills
- Product Growth
- Growth Marketing
- Data Science
- Growth Strategy
- Cohort Analysis
- Performance Marketing
