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Backend Software Engineer Growth San Francisco

Comp$185K – $385K

Classified Tasks (16)

Automate 0%Augment 69%Human-Only 31%

Augment (11)

AI assists, human decides

2. Optimize account access flows to reduce friction and increase sign-ins and retention

technical

3. Optimize notification systems to improve user engagement and retention

technical

4. Optimize SEO to increase organic discovery and traffic

communication

5. Design and implement product experiences that surface value and improve user value discovery

creative

6. Implement features and experiments to increase virality and user-driven growth

technical

9. Perform data analysis to inform growth strategies and measure impact on business metrics and KPIs

analytical

10. Generate and prioritize product ideas to optimize product experiences and the user funnel

creative

11. Design and run experiments (e.g., A/B tests) to validate hypotheses and optimize experiences

analytical

12. Partner with iOS, Android, and full-stack engineers to plan backend architectures and integrations for product features

technical

13. Plan backend systems necessary to power growth-related product experiences

technical

14. Deploy backend systems to support product experiences and experiments

technical

Human-Only (5)

Requires human judgment

1. Spearhead high-impact projects to amplify ChatGPT user base and Plus subscriber growth

leadership

7. Identify pivotal areas for strategic bets or incremental improvements that can catalyze significant impact

analytical

8. Drive long-term growth of ChatGPT through data analysis, product ideation, and experimentation

leadership

15. Execute projects by collaborating with research, product, design, data science, and other product team members to achieve product goals

operational

16. Coordinate cross-functional work to deliver measurable impact on product growth objectives

leadership

Job description

--- BEGIN UNTRUSTED EXTERNAL CONTENT (source: https://openai.com/careers/backend-software-engineer-growth-san-francisco/) --- Skip to main contentResearchProductsBusinessDevelopersCompanyFoundation(opens in a new window)Log inTry ChatGPT(opens in a new window)ResearchProductsBusinessDevelopersCompanyFoundation(opens in a new window)Backend Software Engineer, Growth | OpenAICareersBackend Software Engineer, GrowthApplied AI Engineering - San FranciscoApply now(opens in a new window)About the TeamThe ChatGPT team works across research, engineering, product, and design to bring OpenAI’s technology to the world.We seek to learn from deployment and broadly distribute the benefits of AI, while ensuring that this powerful tool is used responsibly and safely. We aim to make our innovative tools globally accessible, transcending geographic, economic, or platform barriers. Our commitment is to facilitate the use of AI to enhance lives, fostered by rigorous insights into how people use our products.About the RoleWe are looking for an experienced backend engineer to join our new ChatGPT Growth team to spearhead high-impact projects that amplify the user base of ChatGPT and Plus Subscribers. Your role will include projects such as optimizing account access, notifications, SEO, fostering value discovery, and virality. As we are in the nascent stages of growth at OpenAI, we will rely on you to discover pivotal areas where strategic bets or incremental efforts can catalyze significant impact. We value engineers who are impact-driven, autonomous, adept at discerning crucial insights from experimental results, and have a strong intuition for how to remove barriers to unlocking the magic of ChatGPT.In this role, you will:Drive long-term growth of ChatGPT through a combination of data analysis, product ideation, and experimentation to optimize product experiences.Partner with iOS, Android, and fullstack engineers to Plan and deploy backend systems necessary to power these product experiences.Execute on projects by working closely with research, product, design, data science and other members of product teams to land impact on product goals.Create a diverse and inclusive culture that makes all feel welcome while enabling radical candor and the challenging of group-think.You might thrive in this role if you:Shipped features to power experiences that optimize the user funnel, such as landing pages, product pages, purchase flows, search flows, etc.Are highly analytical and have experience designing and implementing A/B tests, with a scientific approach to data-based experiments. You know exactly what and how to track business metrics and KPIs, and aren’t afraid to dive deep into data to earn the insights.Have a voracious and intrinsic desire to learn and fill in missing skills. An equally strong talent for sharing that information clearly and concisely with othersAre comfortable with ambiguity and rapidly changing conditions. You view changes as an opportunity to add structure and order when necessaryAbout 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 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
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