Data Scientist, User Operations at OpenAI

New York, New York, United States

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$245,000 – $385,000Compensation
Mid-level (3 to 4 years), Senior (5 to 8 years)Experience Level
Full TimeJob Type
UnknownVisa
Technology, AIIndustries

Requirements

  • 10+ years of experience in data science roles within product or technology organizations
  • Expertise in statistics and causal inference, applied in both experimentation and observational causal inference studies
  • Expert-level SQL and proficiency in Python for analytics, modeling, and experimentation
  • Proven experience designing and interpreting experiments and making statistically sound recommendations
  • Experience building data systems or pipelines that power production workflows or ML-based decisioning
  • Experience developing and extracting insights from business intelligence tools, such as Mode, Tableau, and Looker
  • Strategic and impact-driven mindset, capable of translating complex business problems into actionable frameworks
  • Ability to build relationships with diverse stakeholders and cultivate strong partnerships
  • Strong communication skills, including the ability to bridge technical and non-technical stakeholders and collaborate across various functions to ensure business impact
  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving, ambiguous environment with limited structure
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to translate complex data into stories for non-technical partners

Responsibilities

  • Build and own metrics, classifiers, and data pipelines that determine automation eligibility, effectiveness, and guardrails
  • Design and evaluate experiments that quantify the impact of automation and AI systems on user outcomes like resolution quality and satisfaction
  • Develop predictive and statistical models that improve how OpenAI’s support systems automate, measure, and learn from user interactions
  • Partner with engineering and product teams to create feedback loops that continuously improve our AI agents and knowledge systems
  • Translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
  • Develop and socialize dashboards, applications, and other ways of enabling the team and company to answer product data questions in a self-serve way
  • Contribute to establishing data science standards and best practices in an AI-native operations environment
  • Partner with other data scientists across the company to share knowledge and continually synthesize learnings across the organization

Skills

metrics
classifiers
data pipelines
experimentation
predictive models
statistical models
automation
A/B testing
machine learning
SQL
Python
data engineering

OpenAI

Develops safe and beneficial AI technologies

About OpenAI

OpenAI develops and deploys artificial intelligence technologies aimed at benefiting humanity. The company creates advanced AI models capable of performing various tasks, such as automating processes and enhancing creativity. OpenAI's products, like Sora, allow users to generate videos from text descriptions, showcasing the versatility of its AI applications. Unlike many competitors, OpenAI operates under a capped profit model, which limits the profits it can make and ensures that excess earnings are redistributed to maximize the social benefits of AI. This commitment to safety and ethical considerations is central to its mission of ensuring that artificial general intelligence (AGI) serves all of humanity.

San Francisco, CaliforniaHeadquarters
2015Year Founded
$18,433.2MTotal Funding
LATE_VCCompany Stage
AI & Machine LearningIndustries
1,001-5,000Employees

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental and vision insurance
Flexible spending account for healthcare and dependent care
Mental healthcare service
Fertility treatment coverage
401(k) with generous matching
20-week paid parental leave
Life insurance (complimentary)
AD&D insurance (complimentary)
Short-term/long-term disability insurance (complimentary)
Optional buy-up life insurance
Flexible work hours and unlimited paid time off (we encourage 4+ weeks per year)
Annual learning & development stipend
Regular team happy hours and outings
Daily catered lunch and dinner
Travel to domestic conferences

Risks

Elon Musk's legal battle may pose financial and reputational challenges for OpenAI.
Customizable ChatGPT personas could lead to privacy and ethical concerns.
Competitors like Anthropic raising capital may intensify market competition.

Differentiation

OpenAI's capped profit model prioritizes ethical AI development over unlimited profit.
OpenAI's AI models, like Sora, offer unique video creation from text descriptions.
OpenAI's focus on AGI aims to create AI systems smarter than humans.

Upsides

OpenAI's $6.6 billion funding boosts its AI research and computational capacity.
Customizable ChatGPT personas enhance user engagement and satisfaction.
OpenAI's 'Operator' AI agent could revolutionize workforce automation by 2025.

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