Senior Data Scientist, Fintech Network Value

Plaid; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 190,800 - 262,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Performance bonus

Job summary

Plaid is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Network Value (Guard) team in Seattle to partner with product managers and engineers, turning questions into analytics projects and driving product decisions with data. You will model and analyze data, build dashboards and OKRs, and run experiments to inform feature launches.

Join a data-first culture focused on scaling a fintech network, translating business goals into measurable outcomes, and influencing cross-functional teams toward data-driven

Qualifications

• 5–8+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in a related analytics or data-focused role.
• Fintech experience, including experience working with raw fintech data.
• Experience launching direct-to-consumer products from 0 to 1.
• Experience with experimentation, ad-hoc analysis, and developing strategic insights.
• Strong SQL skills and experience creating metrics that drive alignment with stakeholders.
• Experience building or partnering closely on data pipelines using Airflow and dbt.
• Strong communication skills and experience partnering cross-functionally with product managers, engineers, and other stakeholders.
• Experience driving data-driven performance for user-facing products.
• Track record of identifying novel ways to impact a top-line OKR and influencing stakeholders on prioritization, road-mapping, and/or execution.

Responsibilities

• Champion a data-first approach to decision-making across the organization as Guard is built and scaled, serving as the data and analytical thought partner to product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Translate ambiguous business and product questions into clear analytics projects and decision frameworks, and perform ad-hoc and strategic analyses to identify opportunities to improve user outcomes and business performance.
• Build and maintain data models, dashboards, core metrics, OKRs, and success metrics that improve visibility into Guard performance and quantify progress against business goals.
• Design and analyze experiments to support feature launch and iteration decisions, and partner on Airflow- and dbt-powered data pipelines that enable trustworthy analytics and scalable reporting.
• Identify novel ways to impact top-line OKRs and influence stakeholders on prioritization, road-mapping, and execution, while exploring ML prototypes and causal inference approaches where they can improve product or decision quality.

Skills

SQL

Product analytics

Data modeling

Experimentation

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication

Fintech data

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Job description

Plaid is seeking a Senior Data Scientist for the Network Value (Guard) team in Seattle to partner with product managers and engineers, turning questions into analytics projects and driving product decisions with data. You will model and analyze data, build dashboards and OKRs, and run experiments to inform feature launches.

Join a data-first culture focused on scaling a fintech network, translating business goals into measurable outcomes, and influencing cross-functional teams toward data-driven