OpenAI
Data Scientist, Cloud Distribution & Growth
$347K–$445K
San Francisco +1 · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco
Seattle - Experience
- No years specified; requires experience independently leading relevant data science work.
About the job
Analyzes cloud-provider usage, revenue, customer adoption, and forecasts to guide OpenAI’s distribution growth investments.
What you'll do
- Build an integrated view of provider usage, billing, and API activity, and assess how workloads and other factors drive growth.
- Measure incremental usage from cloud distribution and identify customer adoption opportunities with account teams, Product, and Engineering.
- Develop and own consumption forecasts, explain forecast misses, and recommend growth investments with GTM and Finance.
What they ask for
- Independently led data science work on a product, growth, or commercial question that changed a business decision.
- Strong SQL and Python skills, including joining incomplete datasets and validating aggregate results.
- Experience using cohorts, experiments, or observational comparisons to assess change, account for customer selection, and evaluate forecasts against a simple baseline.
Nice to have
- Experience with API platforms, cloud marketplaces, enterprise GTM, or usage-based businesses.
- Experience linking service reliability or capacity to adoption, or using demand forecasts to guide commercial or infrastructure investment.
Pay
$347K – $445K (base salary; compensation type not specified in posting)
Tools
SQL, Python
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