Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Guard)
Plaid offers a platform that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts, facilitating a wide range of financial services. They provide tools for payments, personal finance management, credit, and more, serving clients like Moneybox, Western Union, and Affirm. Their core product is an API that provides access to a vast network of financial institutions, allowing developers to build financial products and services.
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About Plaid
Plaid is a financial technology company that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts. It allows consumers and businesses to interact with their bank accounts, check balances, and make payments through other financial technology applications. Plaid's network connects to over 12,000 financial institutions across 20 markets, serving a global user base of over 100 million. The company provides APIs for developers to build solutions for personal financial management, credit, payments, business finances, iGaming, and property management. Key products include Auth for account verification, Link for connecting accounts, Transactions for accessing financial data, Balance for real-time checks, Assets for verifying assets, and Identity for user verification. Plaid focuses on increasing conversion, fighting fraud, and providing clean, organized financial data for smarter underwriting and other financial services.
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About the Role
You'll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers and engineers, helping drive data-informed product development as the team launches and scales Guard from 0 to 1. You'll translate business questions into analytics projects, perform ad-hoc and strategic analysis, improve visibility into core systems through data modeling and dashboarding, create OKRs and metrics tied to business goals, and support feature ship decisions through experimentation. You'll also help identify new ways Guard can move top-line outcomes and influence prioritization, roadmapping, and execution across cross-functional partners.
Requirements
- 5-8+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in a related analytics or data-focused role
- Fintech experience, including experience working with raw fintech data
- Experience launching direct-to-consumer products from 0 to 1
- Experience with experimentation, ad-hoc analysis, and developing strategic insights
- Strong SQL skills and experience creating metrics that drive alignment with stakeholders
- Experience building or partnering closely on data pipelines using Airflow and dbt
- Strong communication skills and experience partnering cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders
- Experience driving data-driven performance for user-facing products
- Track record of identifying novel ways to impact a top-line OKR and influencing stakeholders on prioritization, roadmapping, and/or execution
Responsibilities
- Champion a data-first approach to decision-making across the organization as Guard is built and scaled
- Serve as the data and analytical thought partner to product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders
- Translate ambiguous business and product questions into clear analytics projects and decision frameworks
- Perform ad-hoc and strategic analyses to identify opportunities to improve user outcomes and business performance
- Build and maintain data models, dashboards, core metrics, and OKRs that improve visibility into Guard performance
- Design and analyze experiments to support feature launch and iteration decisions
- Partner on Airflow- and dbt-powered data pipelines that enable trustworthy analytics and scalable reporting
- Identify novel ways to impact top-line OKRs and influence stakeholders on prioritization, roadmapping, and execution
- Explore ML prototypes and causal inference approaches where they can improve product or decision quality
Benefits
- Medical, dental, vision insurance
- 401(k)
- Equity