Payment Risk Consulting Lead
Plaid is a financial data network and fintech infrastructure company that helps people securely connect financial accounts to digital financial services.
Maintainer signals as of 9/2/2026
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About Plaid Inc.
Plaid provides developer infrastructure and financial tools for account connectivity, financial data access, bank payments, identity verification, AML monitoring, credit and underwriting, and fraud prevention. Its network supports thousands of fintech companies and more than 12,000 financial institutions across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Europe.
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About the Role
You will lead customer proofs of concept and retrospectives from analysis through follow-through. You will diagnose model performance, recommend thresholds and rules, optimize customer outcomes, improve reporting, support customer engagements, and turn recurring insights into onboarding playbooks and product requirements.
Requirements
- 5–10 years of experience
- SQL
- Experience interpreting risk, decisioning, or quantitative model outputs
- Experience diagnosing performance problems and making data-backed threshold or rules recommendations
- Customer-facing consulting and communication skills
- Experience partnering across go-to-market and technical teams
- Ability to build repeatable processes
- Experience at a fraud or risk-scoring vendor, credit bureau, or bank or processor risk team
- Familiarity with cash flow or bank transaction data
Responsibilities
- Own customer proofs of concept and retrospectives from analysis through follow-through
- Optimize Signal customers with high return rates
- Interpret model outputs and diagnose authorization and return-rate performance
- Recommend thresholds and rules aligned to customer risk and authorization goals
- Help Guarantee customers tune thresholds while protecting loss performance
- Support customer engagements with product and modeling expertise
- Improve decision and return reporting
- Turn recurring customer insights into onboarding playbooks and product requirements
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
