Hi, I'm Spencer

📍sf | prev. nyc


Hey! ✌️

I’m Spencer Papay, and I'm a product manager on the human data team at OpenAI.Previously, I was a product manager at Scale, where I revamped the platform and quality systems that subject-matter experts use to create training data for large language models.In another life, I was an investor at Citadel, covering semiconductors and hardware.I love just about anything that gets me outside - skiing, backpacking, and rock climbing - and I’m always looking for my next favorite restaurant in San Francisco.

Some Things I've Worked On

At OpenAI

GPT-4o Image Generation
Contributor, 2025
GPT-4.5
Core Contributor, 2025
Deep Research
Contributor, 2025
Operator
Contributor, 2025
SimpleQA Eval
Author, 2024
Canvas
Contributor, 2024
o1
Contributor to Reasoning research, 2024
Sora
Contributor, 2024
GPT-4o
Core contributor to Language and Multimodal capabilities, 2024


Before OpenAI

Meet Claude: Anthropic's Rival to ChatGPT
Co-authored with Riley Goodside, 2023
Common Sense: The Investor's Guide to Equality, Opportunity, and Growth
Joel Greenblatt, 2020
Lead research assistant
Regional Approaches to Combating the United States' Opioid Epidemic
Stanford Economics Journal, 2019
Author
Pupil Absenteeism, Measurement, and Menstruation: Evidence from Western Kenya
Columbia Center for Development Economics and Policy, 2019
Research assistant
Audit on DSNY Use of E-ZPass and Compliance with Vehicle Recall
Office of the NYC Comptroller, 2017
Author and auditor
& lots more that aren't public

Contact

Please get in touch if you want to collaborate!

or if you have any delicious sf/nyc restaurant recommendations