Applied Data Science & Insights Leader - GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success
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What the team is looking for.
Compensation
- $441K – $515K • Offers Equity
The base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. If the role is non-exempt, overtime pay will be provided consistent with applicable laws. In addition to the salary range listed above, total compensation also includes generous equity, performance-related bonus(es) for eligible employees, and the following benefits.
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance for you and your family, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts
- Pre-tax accounts for Health FSA, Dependent Care FSA, and commuter expenses (parking and transit)
- 401(k) retirement plan with employer match
- Paid parental leave (up to 24 weeks for birth parents and 20 weeks for non-birthing parents), plus paid medical and caregiver leave (up to 8 weeks)
- Paid time off: flexible PTO for exempt employees and up to 15 days annually for non-exempt employees
- 13+ paid company holidays, and multiple paid coordinated company office closures throughout the year for focus and recharge, plus paid sick or safe time (1 hour per 30 hours worked, or more, as required by applicable state or local law)
- Mental health and wellness support
- Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage
- Annual learning and development stipend to fuel your professional growth
- Daily meals in our offices, and meal delivery credits as eligible
- Relocation support for eligible employees
- Additional taxable fringe benefits, such as charitable donation matching and wellness stipends, may also be provided.
More details about our benefits are available to candidates during the hiring process.
This role is at-will and OpenAI reserves the right to modify base pay and other compensation components at any time based on individual performance, team or company results, or market conditions.
About the Team
The GTM Data Science team partners with Go-to-Market, Technical Success, Product, Engineering, RevOps, and Strategic Finance to build the shared intelligence layer for OpenAI's B2B business. The team turns product usage, customer behavior, revenue, field activity, and customer feedback into rigorous insight products that help leaders and field teams understand where customers are succeeding, where adoption is blocked, and what actions will accelerate durable growth.
We are building systems that make customer intelligence proactive: surfacing risk, expansion potential, product gaps, and repeatable playbooks before they show up as escalations or missed opportunities.
About the Role
As the Applied Data Science & Insights Lead for GTM Intelligence Solutions and Technical Success, you will be a hands-on technical leader responsible for shaping how OpenAI measures, understands, and improves customer adoption across our B2B products. You will build AI/ML-powered intelligence products that connect account health, product usage, customer lifecycle, support tier, qualitative sentiment, commercial context, and field actions into a practical operating system for GTM and Technical Success.
This role will build the data science foundation for Technical Success: defining the metrics, models, operating insights, and decision systems that help the team scale customer adoption and expansion with rigor.
You will also be expected to build and lead a small mighty team over time: setting direction, hiring and developing talent, creating operating cadences, and holding a high bar for technical rigor and business impact.
You will lead the development of models, metrics, and decision systems that recommend what GTM and Technical Success teams should do next, explain why, and measure whether those interventions worked. Your work will help customers move from pilots to production, deepen usage across products, identify high-value use cases, reduce churn risk, and create a faster feedback loop from the field back to Product and Research.
This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of three days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
The Vision
- Build a unified GTM intelligence layer that connects product telemetry, customer health, revenue, support tier, lifecycle stage, field activity, and qualitative feedback.
- Turn adoption breadth, usage depth, sentiment, and customer maturity signals into next-best-action systems for Technical Success and field teams.
- Create a measurement foundation for Technical Success playbooks, including whether recommended actions were taken and whether they improved customer outcomes.
- Help OpenAI understand customer happy paths: the use cases, product behaviors, and interventions that lead to durable adoption, expansion, and retention.
- Productize insights into workflows used by Technical Success, Sales, RevOps, Finance, Product, and executive leadership.
In This Role, You Will:
- Define and lead the roadmap for GTM Intelligence and Technical Success insight products in partnership with cross-functional leaders.
- Build the data science foundation for Technical Success, including core metrics, customer health definitions, intervention measurement, and reusable playbook analytics.
- Develop propensity score models for model and product feature adoption, helping Technical Success and GTM identify which customers are most likely to adopt, which interventions can move adoption, and where support should focus.
- Build, mentor, and lead a small team of data scientists and cross-functional analytics partners as the GTM Intelligence function scales.
- Set technical standards for modeling, metrics, experimentation, documentation, and production readiness across the team's work.
- Create team operating rhythms that balance urgent field needs with durable roadmap execution, quality review, and stakeholder alignment.
- Build predictive and causal models for customer health, expansion propensity, churn risk, adoption depth, use-case fit, and intervention effectiveness.
- Design next-best-action systems that identify account opportunities and risks, recommend playbooks, and explain the evidence behind each recommendation.
- Partner with Technical Success leaders to enumerate playbooks and actions, instrument action tracking, and measure outcomes over time.
- Develop customer segmentation and benchmarking frameworks across products, industries, personas, support tiers, and lifecycle stages.
- Create scalable insight products that are embedded into field workflows rather than living only as one-off analyses or static dashboards.
- Translate field feedback and account-level patterns into clear product and GTM recommendations for senior leadership.
- Collaborate with Data Engineering and RevOps to improve the data foundations connecting product telemetry, Salesforce, support signals, revenue, and qualitative feedback.
- Maintain a high bar for analytical rigor, including causal evaluation, validation, data quality, and clear caveats.
You Might Thrive in This Role If You Have:
- 10+ years of experience in applied data science, analytics, machine learning, quantitative strategy, or a closely related field.
- Deep technical skill in SQL and Python, with the ability to move from raw tables to production-quality models, metrics, and decision systems.
- Strong applied experience with statistical modeling, causal inference, machine learning, customer segmentation, churn or health modeling, or recommendation systems.
- Experience with propensity score modeling, uplift modeling, or related causal methods for adoption, activation, retention, or product feature usage.
- Experience building production or workflow-embedded data products for GTM, sales, customer success, or product development.
- SQL
- Python
- statistical modeling
- causal inference
- machine learning
- customer segmentation
- churn or health modeling
- recommendation systems
- propensity score modeling
- uplift modeling
- data science
- analytics
- quantitative strategy
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