Research Program Manager, Data Acquisition

The role

You will partner with research, engineering, and operations to design and implement solutions for acquiring data. You will work with researchers to scope data needs and drive technical roadmaps to enhance data platforms.

What you will do

• Work with researchers to scope data needs, define success criteria, and translate priorities into execution plans
• Identify, evaluate, and advance high impact data opportunities
• Use SQL, Python, dashboards, and simple tooling to track performance, quality, and blockers
• Collaborate with engineers to enhance data platforms and ensure security best practices
• Equip vendors and internal teams with context, standards, and operating rhythms

Required qualifications

• Proficient in SQL and Python for analysing datasets, querying databases, building dashboards, and generating actionable insights
• Comfortable using APIs, automation, and AI tools such as Codex
• Can move fluidly between research context, commercial execution, and data operations
• Ability to learn technical concepts exceptionally quickly
• Adept at frequent context switching and working on multiple projects at once
• Ability to navigate ambiguity with ease

Nice to have

• Experience sourcing, evaluating, or working with startups, founder and vendors

About the company

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. They push the boundaries of AI capabilities and seek to safely deploy them through products.