OpenAI
Data Scientist, Ads Demand
$293K–$515K
San Francisco · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years
About the job
Build the measurement and insights foundation for ads demand, assess advertiser performance, and guide sales and product strategy to improve advertiser outcomes.
What you'll do
- Define demand-health metrics and diagnose marketplace changes using analysis, experiments, and causal methods.
- Measure advertiser outcomes, establish benchmarks, and develop early-warning signals and growth opportunities.
- Partner with Sales and Product on demand strategy, forecasting, advertiser feedback, and product impact measurement.
What they ask for
- 7+ years of data science or analytics experience within an ads platform, marketplace, or performance-oriented B2B business.
- Demonstrated business impact on advertiser demand, delivery, ROAS, retention, or product and sales strategy.
- Strong SQL and Python or R, with depth in measurement, experimentation, causal inference, segmentation, benchmarking, and forecasting.
- Exceptional cross-functional communication and influence with sales and product leaders; hands-on approach to ambiguous, 0-to-1 problems.
Nice to have
- Experience at a high-performing ads business working across Sales, Marketing Science, and Product.
- Familiarity with ad delivery, auctions, measurement, attribution, conversion signals, and the advertiser lifecycle; experience turning feedback into product priorities.
Pay
$293K – $515K USD base salary
Tools
SQL, Python, R
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