Applied Data Scientist, Unit Economics Understanding

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About The Role

This role focuses on building the strategic unit economics understanding of OpenAI, guiding sustainable growth to make it the most impactful company of our generation and beyond. You will lead the development of foundational causal inference and data science models and frameworks to predict and quantify the drivers of customer lifetime value (LTV), translating deep data insights into strategic decisions and growth levers. The role requires both technical depth and executive-level communication. This position is based in our San Francisco HQ with a hybrid work model (three days in office per week). Relocation assistance is available.

The Vision

• Build causal inference and predictive analytics capabilities to measure and forecast LTV across customer segments (B2C and B2B), and quantify the incremental impact of different actions or product features on customer LTV.
• Design customer "happy paths" by identifying adoption journeys that maximize lifetime value while ensuring customers gain the most from our ecosystem.
• Analyze price elasticity to guide product packaging, monetization, and pricing strategies.

Responsibilities

Ideal Candidates Will Demonstrate

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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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Compensation Range : $255K - $405K.

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