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 or New York, NY. 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
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About the Role OpenAI's ads platform is experiencing rapid global scale. As the Lead Data Scientist for SMB Ads Growth, you will architect the analytics function end-to-end—driving strategy across targeting, funnel optimization, and performance forecasting. You will work directly with the SMB Ads Marketing team and your insights will be the primary catalyst for high-stakes decisions across marketing, product, and sales engineering. What You'll Do Full-Funnel Analytics Establish the foundational growth metrics and North Star KPIs for the SMB Ads ecosystem, optimizing the journey from lead acquisition to long-term retention. Diagnose funnel friction points through advanced behavioral analysis and quantify the incremental revenue impact of proposed optimizations. Partner cross-functionally to transform complex data findings into actionable, high-priority roadmaps for product and marketing stakeholders. Targeting, Segmentation & Propensity Modeling Engineer sophisticated propensity models and look-alike frameworks to identify and capture high-LTV SMB advertisers. Own the lifecycle of target list construction, including advanced data enrichment, multi-dimensional prioritization, and granular performance tracking. Develop robust segmentation architectures that power hyper-personalized outreach across paid, partnership, and outsourced (BPO) channels. Synthesize market signals to refine our value proposition, ensuring OpenAI remains a key platform for SMB business growth. Campaign Analytics & Measurement Design and implement rigorous multi-touch attribution and incrementality frameworks to evaluate channel efficacy. Lead the experimental roadmap: formulate hypotheses, execute A/B and multivariate tests, and communicate results to executive leadership. Automate business-critical reporting and dashboards to provide real-time visibility during weekly operating reviews. Forecasting & Planning Build high-fidelity revenue and advertiser growth models to project perfor
About the Team 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 partner with Product, Engineering, Risk, Finance, and Go-to-Market to make paying for OpenAI products seamless, reliable, and efficient worldwide. About the Role As a Data Scientist on FinEng, you’ll own the analytics and experimentation that improve our checkout and payments , subscriptions , and pricing & monetization systems. You’ll define the metrics that matter, build the source-of-truth data assets, and design experiments that increase conversion, reduce churn and payment failures, and expand global payment method coverage. Your work will directly influence revenue, customer experience, and how we scale internationally. 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 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. You might thrive in this role if you have 5+ years in a quantitative role (data science, product analytics, or experimentation) in high-growth or fintech environments Fluency in SQL and Python ,
Who We Are Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together . We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work is faster, clearer, and less fragmented. Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion. Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life. We care about craft, building things that last, and the belief that great work is still fundamentally human. Our goal isn’t to ship the next feature. Each and every team of Notinos is working to set the standard for how humans work together in the AI era. From building a business’s system of record to making and managing AI agents to automating away the busy work, we care deeply about giving our customers more time for their life’s work. About The Role: You will apply your expertise in statistical inference and experimentation to understand the impact of product changes and drive decision-making. You will explore ambiguous areas and conduct analysis to identify opportunities for the Growth org, helping shape the strategy and roadmap. You'll partner closely with product, engineering, and marketing leaders at every step of the development process, driving forward data science and analytics work. You'll work with your teams to determine north star and operational metrics, and build the foundational datasets and dashboards to monitor progress and make key decisions. You'll influence the broader company by communicating your findings and driving change in our product and business. (Insights are useful. Impact is even better!) Skills You'll Need to Bring: You are comfortable with ambiguity and motivated by business results. You have expertise in SQL and at least one scripting language (ideally Python or R). You know how to use statistical inference and experimentation to drive actionable recommendations. You are comfortable transforming raw data to build your own data sets
About the Team The GTM Intelligence Solutions team builds the data and decision systems that help customer-facing teams take the right action at the right time. We combine product telemetry, commercial data, customer context, and field activity to identify account health and opportunity, recommend actions and use cases, deliver intelligence through field-facing products and agent workflows, and measure what happens next. We’re looking for a Data Scientist to help build the next generation of GTM intelligence at OpenAI. You will own a flexible portfolio of high-impact decision data products and work closely with Technical Success and other GTM teams to ensure the work drives better decisions. About the Role As a Data Scientist on GTM Intelligence Solutions, you will define and build the intelligence systems that help customer-facing teams prioritize accounts, identify risks and opportunities, choose interventions, and understand what worked. You will set the roadmap and methodology, build canonical features, ship reliable production workflows, monitor quality and adoption, and improve the systems using field feedback and business outcomes. This role combines hands-on technical depth with strong product and business judgment. You should be as comfortable writing production Python and advanced SQL, defining durable data contracts, and operating decision products as you are evaluating a ranking approach or designing an experiment. You will personally ship reliable first versions and partner with Analytics Engineering and Data Engineering when work requires shared infrastructure or additional scale. In This Role, You Will Set the roadmap and methodology for GTM intelligence and decision products, using deep stakeholder discovery to probe beyond stated requests, uncover the underlying decisions, workflows, constraints, and measures of success, and translate them into measurable systems. Own the full lifecycle of intelligence products, including feature definition, methodo
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. About the Team At Embedded Insights, we find the best machine learning opportunities for external products and internal systems, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to bring them to life. We are a central team of Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists. We embed with partner teams to build and apply machine learning models that improve internal decision-making and power the Plaid product suite. About the Role You will be the first Data Scientist on the Embedded Insights team, part of Plaid’s Data organization. You will establish the analytics and metrics backbone for a team supporting a diverse set of internal and external products. You will help drive better decision-making, support machine learning model development, and contribute directly to the health of the Plaid network and the quality of Plaid’s products. Your day-to-day work will include: Analyzing entities across the Plaid network to understand behavior and identify opportunities, anomalies, and risks. Creating foundational metrics, dashboards, and monitoring systems that provide a clear view of network health and machine learning model performance. Evaluating the value and performance of machine learni
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About Pinterest: Millions of people around the world come to our platform to find creative ideas, dream about new possibilities and plan for memories that will last a lifetime. At Pinterest, we’re on a mission to bring everyone the inspiration to create a life they love, and that starts with the people behind the product. Discover a career where you ignite innovation for millions, transform passion into growth opportunities, celebrate each other’s unique experiences and embrace the flexibility to do your best work. Creating a career you love? It’s Possible. At Pinterest, AI isn't just a feature, it's a powerful partner that augments our creativity and amplifies our impact, and we’re looking for candidates who are excited to be a part of that. To get a complete picture of your experience and abilities, we’ll explore your foundational skills and how you collaborate with AI. Through our interview process, what matters most is that you can always explain your approach, showing us not just what you know, but how you think. You can read more about our AI interview philosophy and how we use AI in our recruiting process here . Job Title: Software Engineer II, Data Analytics and Engineering Intro: We’re looking for a Software Engineer II, Data Analytics and Engineering to improve the quality, reliability and velocity of data science and product development at Pinterest. You’ll build scalable data foundations, analytics tooling and analysis pipelines that enable trusted, self-service access to datasets, insights and metric investigations across cross-functional teams. What you’ll do: Develop and document practical instrumentation and experimentation standards, then partner with product engineering teams to apply them to priority product development work. Build and improve scalable analysis pipelines and tooling that produce reliable insights at scale and strengthen understanding of key data structures and metrics. Create tools and processes that enable Data Scientists a
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Why join us Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek. Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career. Data at Brex Our Scientists and Engineers work together to make data — and insights derived from data — a core asset across Brex. But it's more than just crunching numbers. The Data team at Brex develops infrastructure, statistical models, and products using data. Our work is ingrained in Brex's decision-making process, the efficiency of our operations, our risk management policies, and the unparalleled experience we provide our customers. What You’ll Do As a Data Engineer at Brex, you will be a core contributor in transforming raw data into actionable insights for various departments across the organization. You'll collaborate closely with Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and business units to create efficient data models, pipelines, and analytics frameworks that drive the business forward. You also play a leading role in the design, implementation, and maintenance of Core Data tables, our high-quality, curated data source for a
About the Role OpenAI’s Industrial Compute organization is responsible for ensuring our compute infrastructure scales efficiently to support millions of users and increasingly sophisticated AI models. We’re looking for a Data Scientist to partner closely with Capacity Systems Engineering, Infrastructure, Product, and Research to optimize inference capacity across our global GPU fleet. This role combines statistical modeling, large-scale data analysis, forecasting, and systems thinking to drive critical decisions around infrastructure investments, performance-efficiency trade-offs, and customer experience. You’ll transform complex operational data into actionable insights that directly influence how OpenAI allocates and scales one of the world’s largest AI compute environments. Key Responsibilities Build statistical and machine learning models to profile and improve GPU utilization, latency, throughput, and overall fleet efficiency. Develop forecasting models for inference demand across products, regions, and model families. Analyze production workloads to identify latency bottlenecks and capacity constraints, highlighting optimization opportunities. Partner with Capacity Systems Engineering to inform infrastructure planning and long-term GPU investment strategies. Design experiments and simulations to evaluate scheduling policies, serving strategies, and infrastructure tradeoffs. Build dashboards and operational metrics that enable leadership to make data-driven capacity decisions. Collaborate with Product, Research, Finance, and Infrastructure teams to align compute planning with business growth and model roadmaps. Communicate technical findings clearly to both engineering teams and executive leadership. Qualifications MS or PhD in Statistics, Computer Science, Operations Research, Applied Mathematics, Economics, or related quantitative discipline (or equivalent industry experience). 5+ years of experience working in the infrastructure data science space. Strong ex
About the Team OpenAI’s mission is to ensure the responsible and widespread adoption of artificial intelligence. In support of that mission, the Marketing team helps deeply understand customer audiences and market dynamics, influence the development of the right products, build sustainable and customer-aligned monetization models, and drive awareness, adoption, and usage across OpenAI’s products and platform. We take a data-driven approach to understand markets, develop monetization strategies, and uncover customer needs that shape product strategy and messaging. We partner closely with Sales, Partnerships, Product, Engineering, Research, Comms, and Design to deliver a cohesive end-to-end customer experience and lead go-to-market efforts for new product launches across channels. About the Role We’re looking for a Marketing Scientist to join OpenAI’s Ads Marketing Science function. Reporting to Marketing Science leadership, you’ll be a senior individual contributor who combines rigorous measurement expertise with strong client judgment and hands-on execution. Your mission is to help OpenAI Ads prove and improve advertisers’ media performance. You’ll work with sales, partners, and clients supporting all forms of measurement including verification, attribution, incrementality, brand, marketing mix modeling (MMM), and scalable advertiser reporting, connecting sound methodology to decisions advertisers can act on. You will partner closely with Sales on key advertising accounts and with Product, Engineering, Data Science, Partnerships, Legal, and Privacy. Initial priorities include advancing incrementality measurement, helping onboard measurement partners to privacy-forward measurement workflows and integrations, and creating reusable programs, tools, agents, skills, and workflows that let sales and clients access high-quality Marketing Science support at scale. This role is based in either San Francisco or New York, and follows a hybrid schedule (Monday-Wednesday). In th
About the Role OpenAI's ads business is scaling quickly. As the Data Scientist for Ads Demand, you will build the measurement and insight foundation for understanding demand health and advertiser value across the marketplace. You will partner closely with Ads Sales leadership and Ads Product leadership—along with Marketing Science and product and sales teams—to diagnose advertiser performance, define benchmarks, identify growth opportunities, and turn advertiser feedback into product priorities. Your work will shape demand strategy, improve advertiser outcomes, and help OpenAI build for its most valuable advertisers. What You'll Do Demand Health & Measurement Define the North Star metrics, diagnostic framework, and measurement strategy for demand health across the ads system. Build the operating view of demand across spend, active advertisers, retention, budget utilization, delivery, concentration, and mix; identify emerging risks and opportunities. Diagnose changes in demand through cohort analysis, decomposition, experimentation, and causal methods, translating findings into clear actions for Sales and Product leadership. Advertiser Performance & Benchmarks Own the end-to-end view of advertiser outcomes—including delivery, ROAS, conversion performance, retention, and budget efficiency—for individual advertisers and key cohorts. Establish actionable benchmarks by objective, vertical, advertiser size, geography, maturity, and product adoption, with statistically sound peer comparisons. Develop early-warning signals and opportunity scoring that help sales teams surface under-delivery, performance risk, and advertiser growth potential. Set standards for metric definitions, data quality, and interpretation so leaders can separate real marketplace changes from seasonality, selection effects, and measurement artifacts. Insights, Adoption & Advertiser Feedback Partner with Marketing Science, Sales, and Product to translate analysis into credible advertiser-fac
By applying to this role, you will be considered for Research Scientist roles across all teams at OpenAI. About the Role As a Research Scientist here, you will develop innovative machine learning techniques and advance the research agenda of the team you work on, while also collaborating with peers across the organization. We are looking for people who want to discover simple, generalizable ideas that work well even at large scale, and form part of a broader research vision that unifies the entire company. We expect you to: Have a track record of coming up with new ideas or improving upon existing ideas in machine learning, demonstrated by accomplishments such as first author publications or projects Possess the ability to own and pursue a research agenda, including choosing impactful research problems and autonomously carrying out long-running projects Be excited about OpenAI’s approach to research Nice to have: Interested in and thoughtful about the impacts of AI technology Past experience in creating high-performance implementations of deep learning algorithms 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. We are an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement . Background checks for
About the Team Our Applied team brings OpenAI technologies to consumers and businesses around the world. We collaborate across research, engineering, design and business functions to turn cutting-edge AI advancements into impactful real-world applications. Our team has been behind notable product launches ( ChatGPT , API , Sora ), creating tools that help developers write code, enable businesses to operate more efficiently, and empower individuals to learn and create. As AI capabilities rapidly evolve, we focus on ensuring that our products are safe, accessible, and beneficial to all. About the Role As a Data Scientist on the Applied Product team, you will contribute to a data-driven product development culture for consumer and enterprise products at OpenAI. This is critical as our products reach millions of users and businesses worldwide. We are focused on aligning both research and product development to drive measurable impact for these individuals and organizations alike. You should expect to define our north-star metrics, design A/B tests, and establish source-of-truth dashboards that the entire company can use to answer their own product questions. Most importantly, you should expect to be a core member of the product development team. This role is based in San Francisco, CA or Seattle, WA. 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 the product development team as a trusted partner, uncovering new ways to improve the product and drive growth Define and interpret A/B tests that help answer critical questions about the impact of model and UX changes to our product Establish a data-driven product development culture by defining, tracking, and operationalizing feature-, product-, and company-level metrics Develop and socialize dashboards, reports, and other ways of enabling the team and company to answer product data questions in a self-serve way You might thrive
About the Team Codex is OpenAI’s first-party developer product focused on agentic software engineering. We’re building tools that help engineers design, write, test, and ship code faster—safely and at scale. We partner tightly with research and product to translate model advances into tangible developer productivity. About the Role As a Data Scientist on Codex, you will measure and accelerate product-market fit for AI developer tools. You’ll define what “developer productivity” means for our product, run experiments on new coding models and UX, and pinpoint where the model helps or hurts across languages and tasks. Your insights will directly shape how an entire industry builds software. 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 the Codex product team to discover opportunities that improve developer outcomes and growth Design and interpret A/B tests and staged rollouts of new coding models and product features Define and operationalize metrics such as suggestion acceptance, edit distance, compile/test pass rates, task completion, latency, and session productivity Build dashboards and analyses that help the team self-serve answers to product questions (by language, framework, repo size, task type) Diagnose failure modes and partner with Research on targeted improvements (model quality signals, user feedback, evals) You might thrive in this role if you have 5+ years in a quantitative role at a developer-facing or high-growth product Fluency in SQL and Python; comfort with experiment design and causal inference Experience defining product metrics tied to user value Ability to communicate clearly with PM, Eng, and Design—and to influence product direction You could be an especially great fit if you have Strong programming background; ability to prototype, run simulations, and reason about code quality Familiarity with IDE/extensi
About the Team Our infrastructure team helps deliver OpenAI’s most capable models and products to the world by scaling infrastructure and turning demand into useful FLOPS. We collaborate across research, engineering, design, and business to turn cutting-edge AI advancements into impactful, real-world applications. Our team ensures the right compute is available—at the right time and place—to support some of the world’s most demanding workloads. We empower all of OpenAI’s products and research by scaling the infrastructure behind them. Our work makes it possible to launch new models and products reliably and at scale. About the Role As a Data Scientist on the Infra team, you will play a key role in shaping how we scale the infrastructure that powers OpenAI’s products and research. This is critical as we operate one of the largest and most advanced compute fleets in the world, supporting millions of users and businesses globally. We focus on aligning infrastructure measurement, planning, scaling, allocation, and efficiency to drive measurable impact across the company. You should expect to guide the definition of foundational datasets for infrastructure resources, develop metrics that inform key decisions, build forecasting and optimization models, and establish source of truth dashboards and analyses that enable teams to understand and improve infra usage. Most importantly, you should expect to be a core partner to engineering, research, and product teams in shaping the infrastructure that powers everything OpenAI builds. 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: Build and maintain foundational datasets and metrics that reflect infrastructure usage, efficiency, and scaling. Develop forecasting and optimization models to support infra planning and resource allocation. Partner with engineering, research, and product teams to shape infrast
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