Senior Data Scientist, Credit Network Insights

Plaid Inc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Plaid is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Network Value (Credit) team. You will translate business questions into analytics projects, partnering with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to shape Credit strategy and improve product performance and user experience.

You will build data models, dashboards, core metrics, OKRs, and KPIs, and design experiments to inform feature launches. Expect to work with SQL, Python, Redshift, Databricks, notebooks, dbt, and Airflow to enable

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in a related analytics or data-focused role.
• Experience as a product data scientist helping grow an early-stage or consumer-facing product, ideally from 0 to 1.
• Experience with experimentation, ad-hoc analysis, and strategic insight generation in a product environment.
• Strong SQL skills and experience creating metrics that drive alignment and decision-making with stakeholders.
• Experience driving data-informed performance improvements for user-facing products.
• Experience building or partnering closely on data pipelines using tools such as Airflow and dbt.
• A track record of identifying novel ways to impact a top-line OKR and influencing stakeholders on prioritization, roadmapping, and/or execution.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to explain analytical methods, tradeoffs, and recommendations to product managers, engineers, and other cross-functional partners.

Responsibilities

• Translate ambiguous business and product questions into clear analytics projects, decision frameworks, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner closely with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to define problems, shape product strategy, and execute against roadmaps.
• Design and analyze experiments that inform feature launches, iteration, and ship decisions.
• Build and maintain data models, dashboards, core metrics, OKRs, and KPIs that improve visibility into Credit’s systems and quantify progress against goals.

Skills

5-8+ years exp

Product analytics

SQL

Python

Airflow

dbt

Redshift

Databricks

Data modeling

Tools

SQL

Python

Airflow

dbt

Redshift

Databricks

Job description

Plaid is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Network Value (Credit) team. You will translate business questions into analytics projects, partnering with product managers, engineers, and stakeholders to shape Credit strategy and improve product performance and user experience.

You will build data models, dashboards, core metrics, OKRs, and KPIs, and design experiments to inform feature launches. Expect to work with SQL, Python, Redshift, Databricks, notebooks, dbt, and Airflow to enable