Student Community Coordinator, Japan/Korea — Tokyo (FTC, 12 months)

The role

This contractor will support the development and growth of OpenAI's student community efforts in Japan and Korea. The role focuses on building relationships with students, supporting community activations, and surfacing student stories and insights.

What you will do

• Support the development and growth of OpenAI's student community efforts in Japan and Korea
• Identify, recruit, and onboard students to the OpenAI Student Collective program
• Build partnerships with student clubs and campus communities to host Labs
• Build and maintain relationships with students, hosts, and campus partners
• Coordinate communications, scheduling, logistics, and event execution
• Represent OpenAI on Campus
• Develop and maintain dashboards and systems to track events and performance
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams
• Source, review, and curate stories and use cases
• Publish progress updates and monthly recaps

Required qualifications

• 5 years experience building, managing or growing communities, ideally student or campus-based communities
• Excellent execution skills in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Ability to manage multiple workstreams at once
• Experience coordinating across multiple stakeholders and driving follow-through
• Strong communication skills
• Comfort with tools like Slack, Google Docs / Sheets, Airtable or similar workflow systems
• Willingness to travel for student community activations across Japan, and occasionally Korea
• Japanese language proficiency

Nice to have

• Active participation in tech and AI communities
• Strong interest in AI and familiarity with how the space is evolving
• Experience working with agencies and external partners
• Strong relationships with student communities, clubs or universities in Japan and Korea
• Korean language proficiency

About the company

OpenAI's mission is to ensure that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The Community team focuses on finding exceptional power users of their tools and turning real usage into stories and signals.