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Data Scientist, Business

OpenAI
hybrid senior full-time $255K – $405K • Offers Equity San Francisco
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First indexed 6 Mar 2026

Description

Job Posting

Data Scientist, Business

Location

San Francisco

Employment Type

Full time

Department

Data Science

Compensation
  • $255K – $405K • Offers Equity

The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, 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 (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
  • 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, may also be provided.

More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.

This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.

About the Team

The Business Data Science team uses data and analytics to optimize business performance, drive growth, and foster meaningful partnerships, with the goal of ensuring the sustained and impactful expansion of OpenAI's initiatives to maximize the benefits of AGI for all of humanity. We partner with Sales (GTM), Marketing, Partnerships, Support, Finance, Product, and Growth.

About the Role

As a member of our Business Data Science team, you will help build a data-driven culture around insight generation, decision making, and strategy at OpenAI. This role is focused on driving customer success within our business products (ChatGPT Team, ChatGPT Enterprise, and API). You will work on projects such as identifying opportunities for interventions within a customer lifecycle to drive activation & onboarding, identifying target audiences for new feature launches, and measuring the efficacy of emails, events, and other interventions to drive ongoing engagement with our products.

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:
  • Embed with our Customer Success organization as a trusted partner, uncovering new ways to drive customer adoption and engagement of our business products.
  • Establish key metrics, run experiments, and perform analysis to help us understand the incrementality of our efforts to drive adoption/engagement.
  • Proactively surface insights and opportunities to drive engagement and growth.
  • Build tools and systems for stakeholders to self-serve routine data and insights freeing up time to work on more leveraged analyses.
  • Become an expert in OpenAI’s data and systems. Through partnership with Data Eng, Finance and other business teams, you will self-serve all the underlying data for our business and derive insights from them.
  • Partner with other data scientists across the company to share knowledge and continually synthesizing learnings across the organization
You might thrive in this role if you have:
  • At least 7+ years of experience in Data Science roles within dynamic, outcome-driven organizations.
  • Expertise in statistics and causal inference, applied in both experimentation and observational causal inference studies.
  • Proficiency in quantitative programming languages, such as Python and R.
  • Expertise in SQL, with extensive experience extracting large datasets and designing ETL workflows.
  • Experience using business intelligence tools, such as Mode, Tableau, and Looker.
  • Strategic and impact-driven mindset, capable of translating complex business problems into actionable frameworks.
  • Ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders and cultivate strong partnerships.
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders and collaborate across various functions to ensure business impact.
  • Ability to craft clear data stories using decks, memos, and dashboards to drive decision-making at every level.
  • Best-in-class attention to detail and unwavering commitment to accuracy.
  • Proven track record in solving problems within Finance, Marketing, Partnerships, Sales, Support, or other GTM areas.
About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity.

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