{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"df1788a6a561d1f7d2cf6d6b","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/df1788a6a561d1f7d2cf6d6b","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/df1788a6a561d1f7d2cf6d6b","title":"Data Scientist, Analytics Enablement","description":"Data Science - San Francisco\n\nAbout the team\n\nThe Strategic Finance Data Science team helps OpenAI understand business performance and make informed decisions about growth, revenue, and resource allocation. We partner with Strategic Finance, Data Engineering, and business teams to build trusted metrics, explain what is changing, and support forecasting, planning, pricing, and investment decisions.\n\nAbout the role\n\nWe’re looking for a Data Scientist, Analytics Enablement to turn complex financial and business questions into reliable data products, clear analyses, and actionable recommendations. You will work across the analytical workflow: define the question, establish trustworthy metrics and datasets, investigate the drivers, and help partners act on the findings.\n\nThis is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will combine the technical depth of analytics engineering with strong analytical judgment and close partnership with Strategic Finance. Your work will serve both executive reviews and the teams making day-to-day business decisions.\n\nIn this role, you will\n\nDefine and maintain trusted metrics and analytical datasets for revenueance, compute consumption, and margin, with clear definitions and appropriate product, customer, and cohort detail.\n\nBuild automated dashboards and recurring reporting that help Finance leaders and operating teams understand performance, spot changes, and prioritize investigation.\n\nExplain movements in business results and variances against expectations by examining underlying drivers, validating data quality, and distinguishing evidence from assumptions.\n\nTranslate ambiguous questions about growth, retention, monetization, pricing, and resource efficiency into structured analyses and practical recommendations.\n\nPartner with forecasting specialists and Finance to provide reliable inputs, driver analyses, and scenario assumptions for forecasts and long-range plans.\n\nWork with Data Engineering to improve the quality and usability of underlying data, and develop reusable analytical models and workflows that reduce manual effort.\n\nCommunicate findings clearly, align stakeholders on trade-offs, and follow through to understand whether the analysis or data product improved the decision.\n\nYou might thrive in this role if you\n\nHave strong SQL and analytical data-modeling skills, and experience turning large, complex datasets into reliable analyses and reusable data products.\n\nCan reason carefully about metrics, cohorts, denominators, measurement changes, and uncertainty, and investigate whether an unexpected result reflects the business or the data.\n\nHave built dashboards or recurring reporting used by business partners, and can explain the decisions they enabled.\n\nBring sound business judgment and can independently scope an ambiguous problem, prioritize the work, and deliver an end-to-end solution.\n\nCommunicate technical findings clearly and work effectively with Finance, data scientists, engineers, and other business partners.\n\nCan use Python or a comparable analytical tool to investigate data and automate repetitive work.\n\nAbout OpenAI\n\nOpenAI 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 the full spectrum of humanity.\n\nWe are an equal opportunity employeration, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.\n\nBackground checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable lawation technology systems and related data security obligations.\n\nTo notify OpenAI that you believe this job posting is non-compliant. No response will be provided to inquiries unrelated to job posting compliance.\n\nWe are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.\n\nAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.\n\nCompensation\n\n$347K – $385K + Offers Equity\n\nThe base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factorsance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.\n\nMedical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts\n\nPre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)\n\n401(k) retirement plan with employer match\n\nPaid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)\n\nPaid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees\n\n13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)\n\nMental health and wellness support\n\nEmployer-paid basic life and disability coverage\n\nAnnual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth\n\nDaily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible\n\nRelocation support for eligible employees\n\nAdditional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.\n\nMore details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.\n\nThis role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.","company":"OpenAI","rawCompany":"openai","city":"Millbrae","state":"CA","isRemote":false,"isActive":true,"createdAt":"2026-11-05T07:48:40.948Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-2051.00","title":"Data Scientists","slug":"data-scientists"},{"code":"15-2051.01","title":"Business Intelligence Analysts","slug":"business-intelligence-analysts"},{"code":"15-1243.01","title":"Data Warehousing Specialists","slug":"data-warehousing-specialists"}],"industries":[{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"},{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Data Scientist, Analytics Enablement","description":"Data Science - San Francisco\n\nAbout the team\n\nThe Strategic Finance Data Science team helps OpenAI understand business performance and make informed decisions about growth, revenue, and resource allocation. We partner with Strategic Finance, Data Engineering, and business teams to build trusted metrics, explain what is changing, and support forecasting, planning, pricing, and investment decisions.\n\nAbout the role\n\nWe’re looking for a Data Scientist, Analytics Enablement to turn complex financial and business questions into reliable data products, clear analyses, and actionable recommendations. You will work across the analytical workflow: define the question, establish trustworthy metrics and datasets, investigate the drivers, and help partners act on the findings.\n\nThis is a hands-on individual contributor role. You will combine the technical depth of analytics engineering with strong analytical judgment and close partnership with Strategic Finance. 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