Data Scientist, Analytics Enablement

Details

The Strategic Finance Data Science team helps OpenAI understand business performance and make informed decisions about growth, revenue, and resource allocation. The team partners with Strategic Finance, Data Engineering, and business teams to build trusted metrics, explain business changes, and support forecasting, planning, pricing, and investment decisions.

This hands-on individual contributor role combines the technical depth of analytics engineering with strong analytical judgment and close partnership with Strategic Finance. The work supports executive reviews and day-to-day business decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and maintain trusted metrics and analytical datasets for revenue, usage, customer performance, compute consumption, and margin, including appropriate product, customer, and cohort detail.
• Build automated dashboards and recurring reporting to help Finance leaders and operating teams understand performance, identify changes, and prioritize investigations.
• Explain movements in business results and variances against expectations by examining underlying drivers, validating data quality, and distinguishing evidence from assumptions.
• Translate ambiguous questions about growth, retention, monetization, pricing, and resource efficiency into structured analyses and practical recommendations.
• Partner with forecasting specialists and Finance to provide reliable inputs, driver analyses, and scenario assumptions for forecasts and long-range plans.
• Work with Data Engineering to improve the quality and usability of underlying data.
• Develop reusable analytical models and workflows that reduce manual effort.
• Communicate findings clearly, align stakeholders on trade-offs, and assess whether analyses or data products improved decisions.

Requirements

• Strong SQL and analytical data-modeling skills.
• Experience turning large, complex datasets into reliable analyses and reusable data products.
• Ability to reason carefully about metrics, cohorts, denominators, measurement changes, and uncertainty.
• Experience investigating whether unexpected results reflect the business or the data.
• Experience building dashboards or recurring reporting used by business partners and explaining the decisions they enabled.
• Sound business judgment and the ability to independently scope ambiguous problems, prioritize work, and deliver end-to-end solutions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively with Finance, data scientists, engineers, and other business partners.
• Ability to use Python or a comparable analytical tool to investigate data and automate repetitive work.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. The company develops and safely deploys AI products.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. Background checks are administered in accordance with applicable law.

Compensation and Benefits

The base salary range is $347,000–$385,000 per year. Total compensation also includes equity, performance-related bonuses for eligible employees, and benefits including medical, dental, and vision insurance; flexible spending accounts; a 401(k) plan with employer match; paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave; paid time off; paid holidays; mental health and wellness support; life and disability coverage; a learning and development stipend; office meals and eligible meal delivery credits; relocation support for eligible employees; and additional taxable fringe benefits.