Quantitative UX Researcher, Product Policy

The Quantitative UXR will help ensure a data-driven policy development culture at OpenAI, leveraging data on user expectations and behavior to define short- and long-term policy priorities.

Responsibilities

• Embed as a member of the Product Policy team, applying insights about users to the full lifecycle of policy development, implementation, and enforcement
• Collaborate cross-functionally across the organization, including with Safety Systems, Intel & Investigations, and Global Affairs, to coordinate research and insights
• Establish a user-centric policy development culture by driving the definition, tracking, and operationalization of policy-success metrics
• Develop and socialize analyses and reports that enable the team and company to answer policy-related data questions

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in a quantitative role navigating highly ambiguous environments, ideally as a founding user experience researcher or research scientist
• Strategic insights that extend beyond the paradigm of statistical significance testing
• An interest in user behavior and identifying optimized approaches to hard problems
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to engage product managers, engineers, researchers, and executives alike

Key Skills

• A background in social science, economics, psychology, developmental psychology, and/or cognitive neuroscience
• Familiarity with major AI policy questions facing the company and the world