Senior Security Analyst Customer Assurance
Plaid is a financial technology company providing APIs and network connectivity for businesses to build financial products. Its platform supports bank-account linking, financial data access, identity verification, fraud and risk tools, credit underwriting, and bank payments.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
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About Plaid
Plaid operates a financial data network and API platform that lets businesses connect to financial institutions and build financial experiences. Its products support account and identity verification, real-time balance and transaction data, investment and liability data, income and underwriting workflows, fraud and AML risk checks, and multi-rail bank payments. It serves developers, businesses, financial institutions, platforms, lenders, banks, and consumer-facing financial-product providers.
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About the Role
You own the Security Contracts workstream, reviewing customer security provisions, defining defensible security positions, building scalable review processes, analyzing contract patterns, managing program metrics, developing AI-assisted workflows, responding to questionnaires, and supporting customer audit calls.
Requirements
- Review security provisions in MSAs, DPAs, and security addenda
- Understand incident notification windows, audit rights, encryption requirements, subprocessor obligations, data retention, and penetration testing provisions
- Translate security posture and risk appetite into defensible contract positions
- Represent security programs to customers and financial institution partners
- Understand SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST CSF, PCI DSS, GLBA, GDPR/CCPA, and NIST 800-53
- Have experience in fintech, payments, or financial services
- Build security trust enablement programs, intake processes, tiered SLAs, escalation paths, and runbooks
- Define KPIs, build tracking infrastructure, and report on program health
- Communicate effectively with Legal and go-to-market teams
- Build and scale AI-assisted workflows
- Experience redlining security contract language is a plus
Responsibilities
- Lead security contract reviews
- Shape the security contract review strategy
- Design intake processes, tiered SLAs, runbooks, and handoff protocols
- Track security contract requests and identify recurring patterns
- Join customer and data partner calls as a security subject matter expert
- Define KPIs and report on program health
- Build AI-assisted workflows for security assurance and reporting
- Respond to customer security questionnaires
- Support external audit calls
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k)
