Senior Data Scientist, Embedded Insights — Network ML

Plaid; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 191,000 - 263,000; Full time

Job summary

Plaid is seeking a Data Scientist to join the Embedded Insights team, the first data scientist on the group within Plaid’s Data organization. You will establish analytics and metrics foundations for internal and external products and influence product decisions.

You will drive better decision-making, support model development, and help maintain the health of the Plaid network. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate complex data into clear guidance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of industry experience in Data Science or a related analytics role.
• Deep familiarity with SQL and data visualization tools.
• Understanding of modern machine learning techniques, such as classification, clustering, and optimization.
• Experience evaluating model performance, identifying opportunities for improvement, and connecting technical results to business outcomes.
• Proven ability to tailor analytical solutions to business problems while working with cross-functional partners.
• Ability to code and iterate independently in Python, particularly for exploratory data analysis.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain analytical methods, tradeoffs, and recommendations to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience building or partnering on data pipelines using dbt or Airflow is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Analyzing entities across the Plaid network to understand behavior and identify opportunities, anomalies, and risks.
• Creating foundational metrics, dashboards, and monitoring systems that provide a clear view of network health and machine learning model performance.
• Evaluating the value and performance of machine learning models using customer and internal data.
• Identifying opportunities to improve existing models and translating findings into clear, actionable narratives for product and engineering leaders.
• Designing experiments, defining success metrics and guardrails, analyzing results, and communicating recommendations to stakeholders.
• Analyzing Plaid product and customer data to identify opportunities for product improvement and expansion.
• Partnering with cross-functional teams to build reliable data models and analytics workflows.

Skills

SQL

Data Visualization

Python

Communication

Analytical Thinking

Cross-functional Collaboration

Experiment Design

Exploratory Data Analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, or related field

Tools

dbt

Airflow

Job description

Plaid is seeking a Data Scientist to join the Embedded Insights team, the first data scientist on the group within Plaid’s Data organization. You will establish analytics and metrics foundations for internal and external products and influence product decisions.

You will drive better decision-making, support model development, and help maintain the health of the Plaid network. Collaborate with engineering and product teams to translate complex data into clear guidance.