Product Manager, Plaid
Data Supply Health and Traffic
$190.8-262.8k
Offers Equity
1-5 days a week in office (Manhattan, NY)
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
Be an early applicant
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$190.8-262.8k
Offers Equity
1-5 days a week in office (Manhattan, NY)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience, including 5+ in product management or equivalent founder/operator roles
- Analytical rigor: You are comfortable working directly with data, cost models, and operational metrics to make and defend complex decisions
- Deep technical fluency: You can reason about large-scale systems, load management, API platforms, and machine-learning models and engage engineers as a close product partner
- Platform & systems thinking mindset: You think in systems, and design for reuse and the long term
- Leadership, stakeholder influence, and communication :You should be comfortable working cross-functionally (engineering, data, product) and influencing without direct authority. You must be able to explain complex technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders, drive alignment, and make trade-offs crystal clear
- 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!
What the job involves
- As the Product Manager for Data Supply Health and Traffic, you will establish and lead a new product area at the foundation of every Plaid product. You will define how Plaid allocates constrained provider capacity, scales traffic across products, and manages the economics of paid data access
- You will also optimize for data freshness, balancing timeliness with provider capacity and cost so Plaid's products can deliver better experiences to end users. You will own the strategy and roadmap, partner closely with engineering and data-provider teams, and turn technical, contractual, and commercial constraints into clear product priorities
- This is a highly analytical and cross-functional role for someone who enjoys creating structure where no established playbook exists. In your first year, you will build the operating framework for traffic allocation and fairness, develop a clear view of paid-access cost and efficiency, and establish the metrics Plaid uses to run and improve this area
- Define and own Plaid's strategy and roadmap for data-supply traffic, health, and cost efficiency
- Build and prioritize traffic-optimization initiatives, including opportunities created by evolving machine-learning models and strategic concessions negotiated with providers
- Serve as the bridge between Plaid's data-provider relationship teams and internal product teams, translating provider constraints into internal priorities and product demand into clear asks of providers
- Partner deeply with engineering and data teams to understand system behavior, evaluate technical trade-offs, and turn analysis into decisions
- Establish and track the core traffic and cost metrics needed to operate the area, identify risks, and measure progress
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows consumers to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub.
Plaid has integrated with over 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. And about a quarter of people living in North America with bank accounts have linked with Plaid through at least one of the hundreds of apps that leverage Plaid’s application program interfaces (APIs).
The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts. This is very valuable in a world where there are increasing number of fintechs, so the demand for Plaid's services are only going to grow.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2025
$575m
LATE VC
Apr 2021
$425m
SERIES D
Total funding: $1.3bn
Company benefits
- Vibrant offices in SF, NYC, and Raleigh-Durham—with catered meals, happy hours, and clubs to keep you connected
- Competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and support for fertility, mental health, and parental leave
- Lifestyle perks including home office stipends, daycare support, and commuting benefits like CitiBike and Lyft
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zach Perret
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously, Zach was a Consultant at Bain and a Research Fellow and Trustee at Duke before co-founding Plaid ion 2012.
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