Experienced Data Scientist, Plaid
Network Insights
$155.5-232.3k
1-5 days a week in office
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
Job no longer available
Data network powering the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$155.5-232.3k
1-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock financial freedom for everyone.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry experience in a Product Data Science role
- Extensive experience working with funnel conversion and other projects that yielded conversion rate wins
- Deep understanding of various statistical techniques and experimentation analysis workflows
- Strong familiarity with SQL, data visualization tools, and working knowledge of Python
- Prior experience building core data models (preferably using DBT) from scratch
- Ability to collaborating closely with Engineers to diagnose and triage data lineage
- Data engineering experience and data pipeline tooling (e.g. Airflow, Redshift) experience is a plus
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Operations Research, Economics, or a closely related field
What the job involves
- The Data Science team is responsible for serving Plaid’s product analytics, experimentation and modeling needs.
- Data scientists can either work on projects internal to the Data Science team or be embedded in teams across the Plaid organization, to enable and accelerate those teams’ data science efforts
- Making data driven decisions is key to Plaid's culture. To support that, we need a data science team that can apply their analytical skills to understand our users and influence decision making.
- This includes: building and maintaining core data sets and metrics, helping the team design experiments and design experiments and running in-depth follow up analyses, and supporting, educating, and providing guidance to teams on their product decisions
- In this role, you will be joining the Network Enablement and Access (NEA) team, which is focused on working with our Data Providers to strengthen Plaid’s network and enable great products and experiences.
- You will collaborate with Product and Engineering to understand Plaid’s network, the current relationships with FIs, and to develop product offerings that will enable a two-way value exchange
- Working closely with product teams to identify important questions and answer them with data
- Communicating analyses and data-backed recommendations to stakeholders
- Championing a data-first approach toward decision-making across the entire organization
- Defining core data sets and schemas, as well as visualizing and tracking key metrics
- Running impactful inferential analyses and data investigations to identify recurring patterns, root causes, and propose actionable product solutions
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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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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