OpenAI Boosts India Focus with Growth Lead Hire

OpenAI is strengthening its presence in India by hiring a Growth Lead to accelerate ChatGPT’s expansion in its fastest growing market, according to the job description. 

The role reflects a broader push to tailor user growth strategies to India’s mobile-first, social-driven consumer behavior.

The India-based role will sit within OpenAI’s global Product Growth team, which is responsible for driving user and revenue growth across ChatGPT’s consumer and business segments worldwide. 

The team works across the full growth funnel, from awareness and acquisition to activation, retention and expansion, combining performance marketing, in-product optimisation, AI-powered workflows, experimentation and creative operations.

The Growth Lead will own initiatives end-to-end, from ideation and deployment to measurement and iteration, tailoring strategies to local market dynamics while working closely with global teams.

The role will involve designing and optimizing paid and organic acquisition campaigns across search, social, referral, influencer and programmatic channels, spanning both B2C and B2B segments. 

The role also calls for close collaboration with product, engineering, design and data science teams to refine onboarding flows, attribution models, creative automation and experimentation frameworks.

In a recent LinkedIn post, Terri Wang from OpenAI’s Growth team said the company is expanding its Product Growth group globally and is “looking for growth athletes in India with full-funnel optimisation expertise, a data-meets-creativity mindset, and a track record of building 0 → 1.” She added the aim is to bring AI’s benefits to more people “in meaningful, localized ways.”

The hiring push comes as OpenAI builds out its safety capabilities amid rising concern over the risks from powerful AI systems. 

Recently, CEO Sam Altman announced that the company is hiring a Head of Preparedness, calling it a “critical role at an important time” as frontier AI models begin to surface complex challenges alongside their benefits.

In a post on X, Altman said OpenAI has already seen early signs of these risks, noting that in 2025 the company got a preview of how advanced models could affect mental health. More recently, he said, models have become so capable in computer security that they are uncovering critical vulnerabilities.

“Models are improving quickly and are now capable of many great things, but they are also starting to present some real challenges,” Altman wrote, pointing to cybersecurity and biological capabilities as areas that demand rigorous oversight.