Senior Data Scientist - Network Value
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 be a Data Scientist supporting Remember Me. In this role, you'll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers and engineers, helping drive data-informed product development for a critical user-facing product. 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 quantifying progress against business goals, support feature ship decisions through experimentation, and build ML prototypes and causal inference models. Your work will directly support Conversion and Remember Me Enrolled Profile OKRs and help Plaid grow the size and depth of its Consumer Network.
Requirements
- 5-8+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in a related analytics or data-focused role
- Experience with experimentation, ad-hoc analysis, and developing strategic insights
- Strong SQL skills and experience creating metrics that drive alignment with stakeholders
- Experience building data pipelines with 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
- Fintech experience and experience working with raw fintech data (nice to have)
- Experience with causal inference, machine learning, and Python (nice to have)
Responsibilities
- Champion a data-first approach toward decision-making across the entire organization
- Become the data and analytical thought partner to product managers and engineers
- Translate business questions into analytics projects
- Perform ad-hoc and strategic analyses to identify opportunities for improved outcomes and support business decisions
- Build data models and dashboards to improve visibility into core systems
- Create OKRs quantifying progress against business goals
- Design and analyze experiments to support feature ship decisions
- Build ML prototypes and causal inference models
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)