About this role
OpenAI has a vacancy for the role of Data Scientist, SMB Ads Growth in San Francisco. This is a full-time position. The listing was posted on Jul 30, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
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About the Role
OpenAI's ads platform is experiencing rapid global scale. As the Lead Data Scientist for SMB Ads Growth, you will architect the analytics function end-to-end—driving strategy across targeting, funnel optimization, and performance forecasting. You will work directly with the SMB Ads Marketing team and your insights will be the primary catalyst for high-stakes decisions across marketing, product, and sales engineering.
What You'll Do
Full-Funnel Analytics
- Establish the foundational growth metrics and North Star KPIs for the SMB Ads ecosystem, optimizing the journey from lead acquisition to long-term retention.
- Diagnose funnel friction points through advanced behavioral analysis and quantify the incremental revenue impact of proposed optimizations.
- Partner cross-functionally to transform complex data findings into actionable, high-priority roadmaps for product and marketing stakeholders.
Targeting, Segmentation & Propensity Modeling
- Engineer sophisticated propensity models and look-alike frameworks to identify and capture high-LTV SMB advertisers.