Product Manager - Account Verification & Open Banking

Plaid Inc.; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Plaid Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Product Manager for Account Verification to own the strategy and roadmap across Auth, Balance, and Identity Match. You’ll lead cross-functional teams, shaping how millions connect financial accounts daily.

You will partner with engineering, design, and GTM to expand verification methods across open banking, ML, and fallback approaches, balancing speed, security, and scale.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of product management or equivalent founder/operator roles.
• Proven success building and scaling products, ideally in fintech or payments.
• Strong mix of strategic vision and executional drive; able to see the big picture while sweating the details.
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguous, high-growth environments and lead with conviction.
• Track record of cross-functional impact, influencing design, engineering, and GTM teams to deliver results.
• Hands-on comfort with data and AI tools for writing, analysis, prototyping, and experimentation.

Responsibilities

• Own the Account Verification strategy and roadmap, from long-term vision to near-term priorities, grounded in customer and business outcomes.
• Reimagine the Auth experience to unlock new use cases through modern, flexible verification flows.
• Expand verification capabilities across methodologies: open banking, database auth, microdeposits, and beyond.
• Drive self-serve, experimentation, and orchestration tools that empower developers and operators to configure and optimize verification paths without code.
• Partner across Plaid to create cohesive experiences across account setup, risk management, and money movement.
• Represent Plaid internally and externally as a product thought leader, shaping how customers, partners, and the industry view account verification.
• Operate like an owner. Move quickly, make bold decisions, and bring creative energy to scaling one of Plaid’s most essential products.

Skills

Product management

Fintech

Strategic thinking

Execution

Communication

Data & AI tools

Tools

AI tools

Job description

Plaid Inc. in San Francisco seeks a Product Manager for Account Verification to own the strategy and roadmap across Auth, Balance, and Identity Match. You’ll lead cross-functional teams, shaping how millions connect financial accounts daily.

You will partner with engineering, design, and GTM to expand verification methods across open banking, ML, and fallback approaches, balancing speed, security, and scale.