Strategy & Operations Lead — SEA & ANZ

The role

The Strategy & Operations Lead will lead and scale operational excellence across India. This person will translate global strategy into regional execution and build scalable operating systems for South East Asia & ANZ.

What you will do

• Defining and implementing the South East Asia & ANZ operating strategy.
• Driving execution across key markets.
• Partnering with global leadership to prioritize initiatives and allocate resources.
• Establishing KPIs, reporting frameworks, and operating cadences.
• Building and optimizing scalable processes across business lines.
• Identifying operational gaps and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.
• Supporting market entry strategies and operational readiness.
• Enabling strategic partnerships through operational frameworks.
• Building and mentoring a high-performing regional operations team.
• Ensuring seamless coordination between global and regional stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• Significant experience leading regional or international operations in a fast-scaling, complex business environment.
• Strong strategic and operational judgment.
• Experience operating across multiple markets, functions, and business lines.
• Track record of building scalable operating systems, processes, metrics, and reporting frameworks.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders across global and regional teams.
• Excellent business judgment.
• Experience supporting market expansion, operational readiness, and/or regional growth initiatives.
• Strong people leadership skills.
• Comfort operating in ambiguity and creating structure in fast-moving environments.
• High integrity, low ego, and a collaborative leadership style.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience operating across multiple markets, functions, and business lines, ideally within South East Asia & ANZ.

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They seek to safely deploy AI to the world through their products.