Data Scientist: AI-Driven People Innovation Lab

SupportFinity™; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenAI is seeking a Data Scientist to support the People Innovation Labs, an engineering team focused on rethinking talent and productivity through data-driven insights. You will work with product and engineering to embed models and measurement into recruiting and people processes.

You'll design experiments, define success metrics, and translate results into shipped improvements that drive business impact, with a strong emphasis on observability and governance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in a quantitative role (e.g., Data Science, Decision Science).
• Experience in product-led companies or internal people software space.
• Strong fluency in SQL and Python; able to work with messy behavioral data.
• Proven track record translating results into shipped product decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define success metrics for recruiting and HR systems.
• Design measurement and experimentation frameworks for always-on systems.
• Instrument, evaluate, and monitor launches to ensure observable value.
• Translate signals into decisions: what to scale, intervene, and allocate resources.
• Build repeatable decision loops converting analysis into shipped changes.

Skills

SQL

Python

Experimentation

Causal inference

Product metrics

Communication

Stakeholder influence

Tools

A/B testing

Job description

OpenAI is seeking a Data Scientist to support the People Innovation Labs, an engineering team focused on rethinking talent and productivity through data-driven insights. You will work with product and engineering to embed models and measurement into recruiting and people processes.

You'll design experiments, define success metrics, and translate results into shipped improvements that drive business impact, with a strong emphasis on observability and governance.