Data Scientist, Financial Engineering

OpenAI; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

A leading AI organization in San Francisco seeks a Data Scientist to enhance its checkout and payments systems. The role requires strong analytical skills and fluency in SQL and Python. You will lead experiments that drive revenue and improve user experience through data-backed strategies. An ideal candidate has over 5 years in quantitative roles, especially in fintech environments. The position supports a hybrid work model and offers relocation assistance.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in a quantitative role in high-growth or fintech environments.
• Fluency in SQL and Python, with a track record of A/B testing.
• Experience building product metrics from scratch.
• Excellent communication with diverse teams.
• Strategic instincts for tradeoffs in data-driven decisions.

Responsibilities

• Own checkout & payments analytics and experiments.
• Build and run experimentation programs for in-house checkout.
• Create metrics and dashboards with FinEng Data Engineering.
• Lead subscription and monetization analytics for new features.

Skills

SQL

Python

Data analysis

Communication skills

Strategic thinking

Job description

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, 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)

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.

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