OpenAI
Data Scientist, FinEng
San Francisco · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- You will define how we measure and improve checkout, payments, subscriptions, and pricing systems globally-balancing conversion, risk, cost, reliability, and user experience.
- This role is based in San Francisco, CA.
- Define key metrics and guardrails across checkout, payments, subscriptions, and pricing.
Responsibilities
- As a Data Scientist for Financial Engineering, you will drive the measurement, experimentation, and optimization work that powers OpenAI's monetization infrastructure.
- Design experiments, staged rollouts, and offline incrementality studies.
- Partner with Data Engineering to build trusted datasets and operational monitoring.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in data science, experimentation, or product analytics.
- Experience with monetization, payments, checkout, subscriptions, or pricing.
- You might thrive in this role if you have
- Strong product judgment, communication skills, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
Skills
- Develop pricing, elasticity, FX, and localization frameworks.
- Advanced SQL and Python skills and strong expertise in experimentation and causal inference.
Company info
- 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 operate at the intersection of Product, Engineering, Risk, Finance, and Go-to-Market to ensure that paying for OpenAI products is seamless, reliable, scalable, and globally optimized.
- As OpenAI expands internationally and across product surfaces, FinEng plays a critical role in enabling durable, efficient revenue growth.
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
Equal opportunity
- For additional information, please see OpenAI's Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement https://cdn.openai.com/policies/eeo-policy-statement.pdf.
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