Student Community Coordinator, Japan / Korea — Tokyo (FTC, 6 months)

GreenLight Workforce Solutions Inc greenlight.ai Open · verified Aug 17, 2026

Tokyo Full-time Mid-level Community Marketing

Mid-level Community Marketing role at GreenLight Workforce Solutions Inc. Tokyo · full-time.

Role brief

Growth Roles summary, based on the employer's posting.

What you'll do

Recruit and onboard students, then build campus partnerships for Labs and other engagement efforts
Run communications, scheduling, logistics, and event delivery while clearing operational issues
Maintain dashboards and tracking systems for participation, events, engagement, and program growth
Find and shape student stories and use cases, then share progress, risks, and opportunities
Coordinate with internal teams and improve community guides, templates, checklists, and related resources

What you bring

At least five years of experience growing or managing communities, preferably among students or on campuses
Strong delivery skills in unclear, fast-moving situations, with the ability to handle several workstreams
Experience coordinating stakeholders, following through, and earning trust with students, partners, and internal teams
Comfort using Slack, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Airtable, or comparable workflow tools
Willingness to travel for activations in Japan and sometimes Korea, plus Japanese language proficiency

Who this fits

This role suits you if you have community-building experience with students or campuses and can manage several moving parts in a fast-changing setting. You’ll be based in Tokyo as a contractor for six months, working forty hours per week, with travel for activations in Japan and occasional Korea work where relevant. Japanese proficiency is listed as a must-have, and you’ll work with internal teams and an external agency partner.

From the employer

Location: Japan (Tokyo)

Type: Contractor (6 months to start)

Hours: 40 hours/week

Role Summary:

We’re looking for a contractor based in Japan to support the development and growth of OpenAI’s student community efforts in Japan and Korea.

This role will focus on building strong relationships with students and campus communities, supporting locally relevant community activations, surfacing meaningful student stories and insights, and helping establish the foundations for sustained student engagement over time.

About the Team

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 our tools and turning real usage into stories and signals that shape both product direction and how the world understands OpenAI. We do that by learning directly from users, then working together to package up insights and use cases into formats that can travel: playbooks, webpages, launch assets, event series and clear “here’s how people actually use this” guidance.

About the Role
ChatGPT and OpenAI’s broader tools can help students learn, create, build and solve problems in new ways. But for many, discovering meaningful ways to use AI can still feel like navigating a black box without an instruction manual.

The OpenAI community exists to bridge that gap by working directly with the people using our technology every day.

Our role sits across three core areas:

Build direct relationships and channels with student leaders and their communities
Amplify how these cohorts are actually using AI, enabling peer-to-peer learning and accelerating adoption through real examples
Channel insights and feedback from these communities into our product and research teams

Our current student engagements serve as a key entry point for building long-term relationships with students and priority campuses—helping us identify emerging power users and support growing communities through authentic, student-led engagement.

The goal is for every participant to leave not only with an “I wonder if…,” but with the confidence to build with AI—and a community to learn alongside.

This role will report to the Community Lead, APAC and work closely with cross-functional stakeholders and our external agency partner to support the growth of OpenAI’s student community efforts primarily in Japan,and selected engagement efforts in Korea.

In this role, you will:

Support the development and growth of OpenAI’s student community efforts in Japan, with opportunities to support relevant engagement efforts in Korea
Identify, recruit, and onboard students to participate in our global OpenAI Student Collective program
Build partnerships with student clubs and campus communities to host Labs
Build and maintain strong relationships with students, hosts, and campus partners
Coordinate communications, scheduling, logistics, and event execution; resolve issues and remove blockers
Represent OpenAI on Campus
Develop and maintain dashboards and systems to track events, performance, and program scale - including student participation and event engagement.
Collaborate cross-functionally with internal teams to ensure alignment and follow-through.
Source, review, and curate stories and use cases across events and online communities
Publish progress updates and monthly recaps, highlighting key insights, risks, and opportunities

Collaborate with the Community team to improve, maintain community resources, including guides, templates and checklists.

Qualification

Must have:

5 years experience building, managing or growing communities, ideally student or campus-based communities.
Excellent execution skills, with the ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
Ability to manage multiple workstreams at once, from onboarding and event coordination to story capture and reporting..
Experience coordinating across multiple stakeholders and driving follow-through.
Strong communication skills and the ability to build trust quickly with students, partners and internal teams.
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 where relevant
Japanese language proficiency

Bonus:

Active participation in tech and AI communities, with a strong understanding of how these ecosystems operate beyond top-line metrics
Strong interest in AI and familiarity with how the space is evolving, including emerging product and agent experiences.
Experience working with agencies and external partners.
Strong relationships with student communities, clubs or universities in Japan and Korea
Korean language proficiency