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Data Scientist, Financial Engineering

OpenAI · San Francisco

$230k - $385k/yrMid levelData and MLData ScienceData SciencePosted 10 months ago

About this role

ABOUT THE TEAM OpenAI’s Financial Engineering (FinEng) team powers how revenue flows through our products - pricing & packaging, checkout, payments, subscriptions, and the financial infrastructure behind them. We partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Finance, and Go-to-Market to make paying for OpenAI products seamless, reliable, and efficient worldwide. ABOUT THE ROLE As a Data Scientist on FinEng, you’ll own the analytics and experimentation that improve our checkout and payments, subscriptions, and pricing & monetization systems. You’ll define the metrics that matter, build the source-of-truth data assets, and design experiments that increase conversion, reduce churn and payment failures, and expand global payment method coverage. Your work will directly influence revenue, customer experience, and how we scale internationally. This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees. IN THIS ROLE, YOU WILL - Own checkout & payments analytics and experimentation across methods and locales (e.g., bank transfers, emerging rails), improving conversion while monitoring risk and latency. - Build and run the experimentation program for in-house checkout - define success metrics and guardrails, execute staged rollouts, and use offline incrementality when online tests aren’t feasible. - Create operational visibility and source-of-truth data with FinEng Data Engineering - land team-level metrics, SLAs, and self-serve dashboards that drive proactive action. - Lead subscription, retention, and monetization analytics - ship launch-readiness for new subscription features, reduce involuntary churn (e.g., targeted retrials/nudges), and develop elasticity/FX frameworks toward pricing optimality. YOU MIGHT THRIVE IN THIS ROLE IF YOU HAVE - 5+ years in a quantitative role (data science, product analytics, or experimentation) in high-growth or fintech environments - Fluency in SQL and Pyt

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About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core. OpenAI is dedicated to putting that alignment of interests first - ahead of profit. To achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. Our investment in diversity, equity, and inclusion is ongoing, executed through a wide range of initiatives, and championed and supported by leadership. At OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.

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