OpenAI · 11 hours ago
Data Scientist, Financial Engineering
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$255K/yr - $405K/yr
5+ years expOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. As a Data Scientist on the Financial Engineering team, you will own the analytics and experimentation that improve checkout, payments, subscriptions, and pricing systems, directly influencing revenue and customer experience.
Agentic AIArtificial Intelligence (AI)Foundational AIGenerative AIMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingSaaS
Responsibilities
Own checkout & payments analytics and experimentation across methods and locales (e.g., bank transfers, emerging rails), improving conversion while monitoring risk and latency
Build and run the experimentation program for in-house checkout—define success metrics and guardrails, execute staged rollouts, and use offline incrementality when online tests aren’t feasible
Create operational visibility and source-of-truth data with FinEng Data Engineering—land team-level metrics, SLAs, and self-serve dashboards that drive proactive action
Lead subscription, retention, and monetization analytics—ship launch-readiness for new subscription features, reduce involuntary churn (e.g., targeted retrials/nudges), and develop elasticity/FX frameworks toward pricing optimality
Qualification
Required
5+ years in a quantitative role (data science, product analytics, or experimentation) in high-growth or fintech environments
Fluency in SQL and Python, with a track record designing and interpreting A/B tests and quasi-experiments
Experience building product metrics from scratch and operationalizing them for decision-making
Excellent communication skills with PMs, engineers, risk/finance partners, and executives
Strategic instincts beyond significance tests—clear thinking about tradeoffs (conversion vs. risk vs. cost vs. user experience)
Preferred
Payments, checkout, or subscription analytics experience (PSPs, bank rails, disputes/refunds, risk, e-commerce)
Background in offline incrementality methods, uplift modeling, CUPED/causal inference, or counterfactual evaluation
Experience with internationalization/local payments, FX, and pricing & packaging strategy
Comfort building operational analytics (alerting, SLIs/SLOs) and partnering closely with data engineering
Benefits
Relocation assistance
Company
OpenAI
OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company that develops advanced AI models, including ChatGPT. It is a sub-organization of OpenAI Foundation.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Growth StageTotal Funding
$79BKey Investors
The Walt Disney CompanySoftBankThrive Capital
2025-12-11Corporate Round· $1B
2025-10-02Secondary Market· $6.6B
2025-03-31Series Unknown· $40B
Leadership Team
Sam Altman
CEO & Co-Founder
Greg Brockman
President, Chairman, & Co-Founder
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