The opportunity
The 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…
What you'll do
Define and maintain trusted metrics and analytical datasets for revenue,: usage, customer performance, compute consumption, and margin, with clear definitions and appropriate product, customer, and cohort detail.
Build automated dashboards and recurring reporting that help Finance leaders: and operating teams understand performance, spot changes, and prioritize investigation.
Explain movements in business results and variances against expectations by: examining underlying drivers, validating data quality, and distinguishing evidence from assumptions.
Translate ambiguous questions about growth, retention, monetization, pricing,: and resource efficiency into structured analyses and practical recommendations.
Partner with forecasting specialists and Finance to provide reliable inputs,: driver analyses, and scenario assumptions for forecasts and long-range plans.
Work with Data Engineering to improve the quality and usability of underlying: data, and develop reusable analytical models and workflows that reduce manual effort.
What they're looking for
- Communicate findings clearly, align stakeholders on trade-offs, and follow: through to understand whether the analysis or data product improved the decision.
- Have strong SQL and analytical data-modeling skills, and experience turning: large, complex datasets into reliable analyses and reusable data products.
- Can reason carefully about metrics, cohorts, denominators, measurement: changes, and uncertainty, and investigate whether an unexpected result reflects the business or the data.
- Have built dashboards or recurring reporting used by business partners, and: can explain the decisions they enabled.
