Data Scientist, Product Policy at Openai

About the TeamThe Product Policy team is responsible for the development, implementation, enforcement, and communication of the policies that govern the use of OpenAI’s services, including ChatGPT, GPTs, the GPT store, and the OpenAI API. The team is instrumental in developing policy frameworks and strategic priorities to best enable both innovative and responsible use of AI so that our groundbreaking technologies are truly used to benefit all people in pursuit of our mission.About the RoleAs Data Scientist and early member of our Measurement team on Product Policy, you will help to ensure a data-driven policy development culture at OpenAI. You will leverage data on user behavior to define short and long-term policy priorities, analyze trade-offs, and define ‘north star' metrics that measure the success of our policies & enforcements.This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.In this role, you will:Embed as a member of the product policy team, focused on applying data-insights to the full lifecycle of policy development, implementation, and enforcement  Stand up an initial assessment of policy priorities using internal data Collaborate cross-functionally across the organization, including with  Policy Research, Safety Systems, Intel & Investigations, Global Affairs, to coordinate research and data insights , and moreEstablish a data-driven policy development culture by driving the definition, tracking, and operationalizing of policy-success metricsDevelop and socialize dashboards, reports, and other ways of enabling the team and company to answer policy data questionsYou might thrive in this role if you have:7+ years experience in a quantitative role navigating highly ambiguous environments, ideally as a founding data scientist, researcher, or product analyst Defined, implemented, and operationalized new feature and product-level metrics from scratch, especially in ambiguous areas related to AI policy or social science Strategic insights beyond the paradigm of statistical significance testingAn interest in user behavior and identifying optimized approaches to hard problems Excellent communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate with product managers, engineers, researchers, and executives alikeYou could be an especially great fit if you have:A background in social science, philosophy, ethics, and/or economicsFamiliarity with major AI policy questions facing the company and the worldAbout OpenAIOpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. We are an equal opportunity employer and do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. OpenAI Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy StatementFor US Based Candidates: Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities, and requests can be made via this link.OpenAI Global Applicant Privacy PolicyAt OpenAI, we believe artificial intelligence has the potential to help people solve immense global challenges, and we want the upside of AI to be widely shared. Join us in shaping the future of technology.