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OpenAI

Builds AI models and the ChatGPT assistant

Data Scientist - B2B Strategy & Intelligence

Full-TimeUpdated on 10/23/2026
$347k - $510k/yr
Senior
Bachelor's
San Francisco, CA, USA
Hybrid
Data & AnalyticsData Science

About the job

Requirements
  • Senior-level experience in a quantitative role such as Data Science, Product Analytics, Decision Science, Growth Analytics, Strategy Analytics, or a related field.
  • Strong business judgment and a track record of translating ambiguous analytical work into decisions business leaders can act on.
  • Experience working on B2B, go-to-market or commercial strategy, monetization, product growth, or similarly complex business problems.
  • Strong technical fluency with analytical tools such as SQL and Python, or equivalent experience using data to answer open-ended business questions.
  • Ability to connect data across product, customer, sales, revenue, market, and operational contexts to form a coherent view of the business.
  • Ability to structure broad questions, identify high-leverage analysis, manage uncertainty, and communicate practical recommendations.
  • Ability to influence senior leaders, field teams, product partners, operators, and data scientists with clear evidence and balanced judgment.
  • Comfort operating in a high-ambiguity, fast-changing environment where the team, roadmap, and stakeholder model are still taking shape.
  • Practical AI fluency and curiosity about how modern AI tools can improve analytical workflows, strategic synthesis, and decision support.
Responsibilities
  • Structure ambiguous B2B and go-to-market questions into clear operational plans, identifying the decision at stake, the evidence needed, and how insights will translate into action.
  • Lead strategic deep dives across international expansion, monetization, product penetration, customer segmentation, field deployment, ecosystem dynamics, and organizational design.
  • Analyze product usage, customer behavior, adoption patterns, sales and field activity, pipeline and revenue signals, and market context to identify the drivers of B2B growth.
  • Partner with GTM, Revenue, Product, Finance, RevOps, Strategy, and Data Science leaders to turn analysis into prioritization decisions, field plays, investment choices, and operating cadences.
  • Communicate complex findings to executives and cross-functional partners with crisp recommendations, transparent assumptions, and clear tradeoffs.
  • Use modern AI tools to accelerate analysis, synthesize evidence, improve workflows, and identify new ways data science can support business decision-making.
  • Help define the operating model for an emerging B2B data science capability, including how the team frames problems, engages stakeholders, evaluates opportunities, and turns insights into go-to-market action.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience in strategy consulting followed by data science work in technology, or data science work within a consulting analytics practice, is a strong plus.
  • An advanced degree is welcome but not required.

About the company

OpenAI researches and builds artificial intelligence models and turns them into products for people, developers, and businesses, with a stated mission of making sure artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. Its launch of ChatGPT in 2022 brought generative AI into everyday use. People use ChatGPT to ask questions, write, code, and analyze files, developers build OpenAI's models into their own apps through its API, and its Codex agent works through coding tasks on its own. OpenAI earns money from ChatGPT subscriptions, business plans, and API usage. Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and others co-founded it in 2015; it is based in San Francisco and overseen by a nonprofit, the OpenAI Foundation.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Late Stage VC

Total Funding

$226.5B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • Sales are compounding: OpenAI's yearly revenue pace doubled from $24 billion in March 2026 to nearly $50 billion in September.
  • Equity turns into cash regularly: staff sold $7 billion of shares in August 2026, after $6.6 billion in October 2025.
  • Room to grow: OpenAI plans to nearly double staff to 8,000 by year-end and listed 816 openings in October 2026.

What critics are saying

  • Its chief rival pulled ahead: Claude maker Anthropic's $965 billion valuation in May 2026 topped OpenAI's $852 billion.
  • Profits are years away: OpenAI's own forecast, reported in September 2026, shows $278 billion of cash burn through 2030.
  • Expect leadership churn: 15 senior leaders, including the revenue and applications chiefs, left OpenAI between January and September 2026.

What makes OpenAI unique

  • A nonprofit is in charge: the OpenAI Foundation appoints OpenAI's whole board and held a 26% stake in October 2025.
  • ChatGPT reaches about one in seven people on Earth: 1.2 billion used it each week as of September 2026.
  • Microsoft is a major part-owner: it held about 27% in October 2025 and licenses OpenAI's models through 2032.

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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)

Growth & Insights and Company News

6 month growth

6%

1 year growth

1%

2 year growth

2%
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Associated Press
Oct 23rd, 2026
AIM Intelligence joins OpenAI's partner network, launching Stinger-Daybreak security assessments

AIM Intelligence, a Seoul-based AI safety and security company, has expanded its cybersecurity collaboration with OpenAI. It unveiled an application security assessment service that links its AI blue-teaming platform, Stinger, with OpenAI's Daybreak cybersecurity program. The service combines code vulnerability analysis using the Daybreak Blue model, runtime testing with Stinger, and expert review. It covers AI applications, web services, and APIs, and weighs flaws against an application's permissions, configurations, and data flows to show which to fix first. Results include reproduction evidence for validated findings and remediation guidance. The service is aimed at Korean organizations. On October 22 at OpenAI DevDay Exchange Seoul, OpenAI introduced AIM Intelligence as a Select Partner in the OpenAI Partner Network.

The Information
Oct 22nd, 2026
OpenAI Fundraising Round Set to Close Soon With UAE Investors, Coatue Leading Investment

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TechCrunch
Oct 22nd, 2026
OpenAI launches Decisions API to rival TypeSafe, the $7.6B startup behind Jev

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The Information
Oct 22nd, 2026
Defenders' window narrows as Chinese AI models close in, while Meta posts $64.6B revenue

Meta said third-quarter revenue rose 26% to $64.6 billion, slightly above its forecast, and announced a new class of nonvoting common stock to raise capital for its AI spending without diluting chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg's control. Shares rose 2% in after-hours trading. Existing shareholders will get one Class C share for each Class A or B share they hold. The stock can be issued from January 19. Meta gave no timing or size for an equity offering. Free cash flow was negative $2.12 billion, against positive $10.63 billion a year earlier, due to AI investment. Full-year capital spending is expected at $135 billion to $145 billion, within its earlier range. Operating income fell 37% to just under $13 billion, partly due to a nearly $10 billion legal charge. A New Mexico judge also ordered Meta to pay $25 billion in a Cambridge Analytica case.