Data Scientist

Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. 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. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.

As a Data Scientist on the Fraud Data team, you will analyze customer and network traffic to understand how Plaid Protect performs across a range of use cases and customer segments. You’ll build dashboards and metrics that provide a clear, shared view of product performance, run backtests to evaluate performance and identify high-impact rules and model strategies, and generate insights that support customer growth and expansion. You’ll also design scalable data models and schemas to enable reliable analysis and reporting, while partnering closely with Product and Engineering to design and analyze experiments for new customer-facing features.

• Work at the intersection of product analytics, machine learning, and fraud and risk to uncover insights that improve product performance.
• Own the metrics, dashboards, and experiments that inform product strategy and decision-making.

• 3–5 years of relevant experience, including at least 2–3 years working extensively with product analytics, experimentation, or data-driven products.
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python, with experience analyzing complex datasets and translating insights into action.
• Hands-on experience with product analytics, experimentation, and/or backtesting methodologies.
• Experience building and maintaining dashboards, reporting frameworks, and core product metrics.
• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to translate complex analyses into clear, actionable insights for technical and non-technical audiences.

• Experience in fraud/risk domains
• Experience with developing ML models

Salary range: $176.4K – $226.8K. Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).

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