High confidence
Jun 11, 2026
Opendoor
−250 Nearly 250 India-based employees; a small subset stayed temporarily to complete transition work.
Attribution · verbatim quote
“As we've unified these systems and have hired small AI-native customer-facing teams throughout the US, we need all this operational work to be done in person and close to our customers.”
— Kaz Nejatian (ceo)
Summary
Opendoor began winding down its India-based operations, affecting nearly 250 employees, as CEO Kaz Nejatian said manual workflows were being centralized near US customers and supported by smaller AI-native customer-facing teams and unified tools.
Evidence notes
- · Hindustan Times reproduced Nejatian's internal note and tweet, including the nearly 250 India headcount and the stated reason for winding down India operations.
- · The CEO tied the consolidation to replacing fragmented manual workflows with unified systems, AI-native US teams, and broader individual scope for remaining workers.
- · High confidence is based on a named CEO note reproduced in a public news source; the cited X account is included as first-party context.