Data Scientist, FinEng

Join OpenAI’s Financial Engineering (FinEng) team to help shape how monetization is measured, tested, and improved. This hybrid role is based in San Francisco, CA with three days per week in the office, plus relocation support for eligible employees. Alongside high-impact work across checkout, payments, subscriptions, and pricing, you will benefit from comprehensive health coverage, flexible time off, learning support, and wellness resources.

Compensation: USD 293,000 - 515,000 per year + offers equity. Base pay may vary based on individualized factors. This role is at-will, and OpenAI may modify base pay and other compensation components based on performance, results, or market conditions.

What you’ll do

• Define key metrics and guardrails across checkout, payments, subscriptions, and pricing.
• Design experiments, staged rollouts, and offline incrementality studies.
• Improve conversion, retention, and involuntary churn.
• Develop frameworks for pricing, elasticity, FX, and localization.
• Partner with Data Engineering to build trusted datasets and operational monitoring.
• Translate complex analysis into recommendations that guide product and business decisions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentor other data scientists.

What you bring

• 10+ years of experience in data science, experimentation, or product analytics.
• Experience related to monetization, payments, checkout, subscriptions, or pricing.
• Advanced SQL and Python skills, plus strong expertise in experimentation and causal inference.
• A track record of independently leading high-impact, cross-functional analytical work.
• Strong product judgment, communication skills, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.

Benefits at OpenAI

• 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, plus multiple paid coordinated office closures for focus and recharge.
• 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.
• Daily meals in offices and meal delivery credits as eligible.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional taxable fringe benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.