Data Scientist, Financial Engineering
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Job Location:
San Francisco, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
$ 255 - 405
Posted on:
30+ days ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Department:
Job Summary
About the Team
OpenAIs Financial Engineering (FinEng) team powers how revenue flows through our productspricing & 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 youll own the analytics and experimentation that improve our checkout and payments subscriptions and pricing & monetization systems. Youll 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 checkoutdefine success metrics and guardrails execute staged rollouts and use offline incrementality when online tests arent feasible.
Create operational visibility and source-of-truth data with FinEng Data Engineeringland team-level metrics SLAs and self-serve dashboards that drive proactive action.
Lead subscription retention and monetization analyticsship 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 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 testsclear thinking about tradeoffs (conversion vs. risk vs. cost vs. user experience)
You could be an especially great fit if you have
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
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.
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- Data Analysis Skills
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We believe our research will eventually lead to artificial general intelligence, a system that can solve human-level problems. Building safe and beneficial AGI is our mission.
