Data Scientist, Product

OpenAI
San Francisco, CA, USA / Seattle, WA, USA2025-01-24

About the job

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.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

Minimum

5+ years experience in a quantitative role navigating highly ambiguous environments, ideally as an early data scientist or product analyst at a hyper-growth product company or research org

Proposed, designed, and run rigorous experiments with clear insights and product recommendations utilizing SQL and Python

Defined, implemented, and operationalized new feature and product-level metrics from scratch

Excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate with product managers, engineers, and executives alike

Strategic insights beyond the paradigm of statistical significance testing

Preferred

Strong programming background, with ability to run simulations and prototype variants

Experience validating quantitative insights with qualitative methods (e.g. surveys, UXR)

Demonstrated prior experience in NLP, large language models, or generative AI