Why This Job is Featured on The SaaS Jobs
Recruiting roles inside SaaS-adjacent AI product organizations sit at an intersection of rapid capability shifts and rigorous hiring standards. This position is featured because it focuses on Data Science, Research, and Analytics talent—functions that increasingly determine how SaaS companies build product intelligence, run experimentation, and translate model or data advances into customer-facing outcomes. The remit spans multiple technical sub-disciplines, which is typical of organizations where research and product development are tightly linked.
From a SaaS career standpoint, this work builds durable leverage: operating full-cycle hiring for scarce technical profiles, shaping sourcing strategy, and partnering with leaders across Product, Engineering, and Go-To-Market. It also develops fluency in modern recruiting operations—process design, candidate experience, and cross-functional coordination with HR, Legal, and compensation—skills that transfer across SaaS companies as teams scale and specialize.
The role fits recruiters who prefer consultative stakeholder partnership and structured execution, and who enjoy mapping nuanced skill sets across analytics engineering, experimentation, and applied research. It should suit someone comfortable balancing relationship-driven outreach with operational discipline, and interested in how hiring decisions influence product and research roadmaps in technology-led SaaS environments.
The section above is editorial commentary from The SaaS Jobs, provided to help SaaS professionals understand the role in a broader industry context.
Job Description
About this Team
At OpenAI, we’re here to do something extraordinary: build safe AGI that benefits everyone. That mission demands people who are not just brilliant but also deeply aligned with our values. Our Recruiting team is the gateway—connecting exceptional humans to meaningful, high-impact work. We’re a close-knit, mission-driven crew that takes pride in thoughtful, relationship-first hiring. We partner deeply with teams across OpenAI to find, engage, and support the people who will shape the future of AI.
Our Data Science, Research, and Analytics organizations play a critical role in advancing OpenAI’s models, products, and decision-making. These teams span applied research, product data science, experimentation, analytics engineering, and insights—partnering closely with Research, Engineering, Product, and Go-To-Market leaders across the company.
About this Role
We are looking for an experienced Recruiter specializing in Data Science and Analytics to join our team. In this role, you will lead full-cycle recruiting for highly technical, high-impact roles across Data Science, Applied Research, Analytics, and adjacent functions. Reporting to our GTM Recruiting Lead, you will collaborate closely with hiring managers and global recruitment colleagues to ensure a seamless and effective hiring process..
In this role, you will:
Manage full-cycle recruitment for Data Science roles, including identifying talent needs, managing the recruitment process, and negotiating offers.
Work directly with business leaders to understand departmental objectives and develop proactive hiring strategies that align with organizational goals.
Ensure an outstanding candidate experience by representing OpenAI professionally and upholding our commitment to diversity and inclusion in all hiring practices.
Collaborate with internal teams such as HR, Legal, and Compensation to ensure compliance and operational excellence throughout the recruitment lifecycle.
Utilize advanced sourcing strategies and tools to attract and engage top-tier candidates, with a focus on enhancing diversity within our teams.
Provide expert advice and support to hiring managers on best practices in interviewing, candidate evaluation, and employment branding.
You might thrive in this role if you:
7+ years of full-cycle recruiting experience, particularly within in-house environments at high-growth companies.
A strong track record of hiring for Data Science roles.
Excellent communication skills and the ability to engage effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders across cultures.
A high level of adaptability in fast-paced, evolving environments—balancing strategic vision with hands-on execution.
A continuous improvement mindset and the ability to evolve processes to meet global hiring needs.
Proficiency with ATS and sourcing platforms such as Ashby, LinkedIn Recruiter, and other modern recruitment tools.
About OpenAI
OpenAI 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 we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, disability, genetic information, or other applicable legally protected characteristic.
For additional information, please see OpenAI’s Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Statement.
Background checks for applicants will be administered in accordance with applicable law, and qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment consistent with those laws, including the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act, for US-based candidates. For unincorporated Los Angeles County workers: we reasonably believe that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship with the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of a conditional offer of employment: protect computer hardware entrusted to you from theft, loss or damage; return all computer hardware in your possession (including the data contained therein) upon termination of employment or end of assignment; and maintain the confidentiality of proprietary, confidential, and non-public information. In addition, job duties require access to secure and protected information technology systems and related data security obligations.
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