Plaid
Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Plaid App)
San Francisco HQ · Senior
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 13 days ago
PythonSQLMachine LearningAirflowdbtData EngineeringData ScienceA/B TestingRoadmappingOKRsCommunication
About the role
- We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years.
- We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.
Responsibilities
- Champion a data-first approach to decision-making across the organization as Plaid App is built and scaled, serving 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, and perform ad-hoc and strategic analyses to identify opportunities to improve user outcomes and business performance.
- Build and maintain data models, dashboards, core metrics, OKRs, and success metrics that improve visibility into Guard performance and quantify progress against business goals.
- Design and analyze experiments to support feature launch and iteration decisions, and partner on Airflow- and dbt-powered data pipelines that enable trustworthy analytics and scalable reporting.
Requirements
- 5-8+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in a related analytics or data-focused role
- Experience launching direct-to-consumer products from 0 to 1
- Experience with experimentation, ad-hoc analysis, and developing strategic insights
- 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, including experience working with raw fintech data
- 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
- Nice to have
- Experience with machine learning
- Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Nice to have
- Experience with causal inference
- Python proficiency
- We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences.
- We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description.
- Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.
- We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.
Skills
- Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life.
- Plaid's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe.
- Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Plaid App)
Compensation
- Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered.
This listing is sourced directly from Plaid's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.