Plaid
Senior Data Scientist - Embedded Insights
Part remote, part office, you need to live within commuting distance of a named location.
Hybrid · San Francisco HQ
Employer listed it 13 days ago · Added 4 days ago
First listed 13 days ago and still open.
Salary
$190,800 to $262,800
Location
Hybrid · San Francisco HQ
Timezone
Not stated
Contract
Full-time
Experience
Senior
Category
Data
Published by the employer
Remote flexibility
Hybrid
This role is only partly remote, the employer expects time in the office around San Francisco HQ, Seattle Office, New York City Office, Hybrid, so you need to live within commuting distance.
What the employer says
- Source listing states candidate location: "San Francisco HQ, Seattle Office, New York City Office, Hybrid"
- Listing mentions "Hybrid"
What Nomaders makes of it
- Not suitable if you plan to move between countries
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About the role
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.
About the Team
At Embedded Insights, we find the best machine learning opportunities for external products and internal systems, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to bring them to life.
We are a central team of Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists. We embed with partner teams to build and apply machine learning models that improve internal decision-making and power the Plaid product suite.
About the Role
You will be the first Data Scientist on the Embedded Insights team, part of Plaid’s Data organization. You will establish the analytics and metrics backbone for a team supporting a diverse set of internal and external products.
You will help drive better decision-making, support machine learning model development, and contribute directly to the health of the Plaid network and the quality of Plaid’s products.
Your day-to-day work will include:
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.
What Excites You
Applying quantitative analysis, data mining, and data visualization to help keep the Plaid network healthy and improve our product suite.
Informing and influencing product and engineering teams through rigorous analysis, thoughtful presentations, and clear recommendations.
Turning ambiguous business questions into structured analytical approaches and measurable outcomes.
Helping shape long-term data science and machine learning roadmaps, including how teams iterate, evaluate, and make decisions.
Establishing analytics practices and frameworks from the ground up as the team’s first Data Scientist.
Championing a data-first approach to decision-making across Plaid.
What Excites Us
6+ years of industry experience in Data Science or a related analytics role.
Requirements
The employer hasn't listed requirements separately, they're described in the role summary above and on the original listing.
Benefits
No benefits package published with this listing. Ask about it at first interview.
How to apply
- 1Check the flexibility label above, hybrid, matches where you plan to live and work.
- 2Tailor your CV to the role at Plaid, mentioning your remote working experience.
- 3Apply directly on the employer's careers page using the button below. Nomaders never handles your application.
Found 5d ago. Last checked 23 Sept. Always confirm the details on the original posting, salary and location can change after publication.
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