# Founding Data Scientist, Pricing & Monetization

**Company**: OpenAI
**Location**: San Francisco
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: Full time
**Salary**: $340K - $380K
**Category**: Data Science
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124605186

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## Description

## Compensation

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The salary range for this role is $340K - $380K, with generous equity, performance-related bonuses, and the following benefits:

- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts

- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)

- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match

- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)

- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees

- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time

- Mental health and wellness support

- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage

- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth

- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible

- Relocation support for eligible employees

- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends

## About the Team

OpenAI's Pricing team sits at the center of product, go-to-market, finance, and strategy. We define how OpenAI packages, prices, and scales access to our products across consumer, SMB, and enterprise customers.

## About the Role

As a founding Data Scientist for Pricing, you will design the analyses, models, experiments, and decision frameworks that guide pricing strategy across OpenAI's business. You'll work side-by-side with the CFO, Head of Pricing, and senior leaders across Product and GTM on ambiguous, high-leverage questions.

## Responsibilities

- Serve as a senior analytical partner to the CFO, Head of Pricing, Product, and GTM leaders on pricing and monetization decisions

- Build the analytical foundation for pricing across consumer, SMB, and enterprise segments

- Design and execute analyses that connect customer behavior, product usage, conversion, retention, revenue outcomes, and pricing strategy

- Develop models, algorithms, experiments, and decision frameworks for complex pricing, packaging, discounting, and willingness-to-pay questions

- Translate technical work into crisp executive recommendations and practical operating guidance for cross-functional teams

- Identify where a dedicated pricing data science function can create repeatable leverage

## Requirements

- Significant experience in data science, analytics, economics, statistics, machine learning, or a related quantitative field

- Strong technical ability in analysis, modeling, experimentation, causal inference, and data-driven decision-making

- Experience working on pricing, monetization, marketplace dynamics, usage-based pricing, dynamic pricing, packaging, or adjacent high-complexity business problems

- Ability to operate independently in ambiguous environments

- Strong written and verbal communication skills

## Preferred Qualifications

- Prior pricing experience across consumer, SMB, enterprise, marketplace, platform, or AI/API businesses

- Experience building novel pricing models, systems, experimentation programs, or decision frameworks

- PhD preferred; a master's degree or equivalent practical experience can also be a strong fit

## About OpenAI

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

## Skills

### Required
- data science
- analytics
- economics
- statistics
- machine learning
- pricing
- monetization

### Nice to have
- causal inference
- statistical techniques
- pricing models
- systems
- experimentation programs
- decision frameworks

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