Plaid · 2 hours ago
Senior Data Scientist - Payments
San Francisco, CA
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$174K/yr - $260K/yr
5+ years expPlaid is a company dedicated to empowering financial transformation through innovative tools and experiences. They are seeking a Senior Data Scientist to contribute to high-impact data insights and machine learning challenges, focusing on driving business impact through data analysis and decision-making. The role involves applying quantitative analysis, conducting experiments, and collaborating with product and engineering teams.
BankingFinancial ServicesFinTech
Responsibilities
Applying your expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and data visualization to find insights for improving our API products
Conducting large-scale A/B experiments
Identifying useful signals that can be fed into machine learning models
Informing and influencing product and engineering teams through your data analysis and presentations
Making long-term data science roadmap decisions like how machine learning and data science iteration should be done at Plaid
Championing a data-first approach toward decision-making across the entire organization
Qualification
Required
5+ years of industry experience in a product-focused Data Science role
Deep familiarity with SQL and data visualization tools
Experiencing conducting large-scale A/B experiments, analyzing results, and translating them into concrete recommendations
Familiarity with the AWS stack
Understanding of modern machine learning (ML) techniques, such as classification, clustering, optimization, deep neural network, and natural language processing
Proven ability to tailor your solutions to business problems in a cross-functional team
Ability to code and iterate independently in Python to conduct exploratory data analysis
Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, or a closely related field
Preferred
Experience building data pipelines in DBT or Airflow is a plus
Benefits
Medical
Dental
Vision
401(k)
Company
Plaid
Plaid develops financial technology infrastructure that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts and financial data.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$1.31BKey Investors
Franklin TempletonAltimeter CapitalGoldman Sachs Investment Partners
2025-04-03Series Unknown· $575M
2025-04-03Secondary Market
2023-10-19Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Zachary Perret
Co-Founder & CEO
Eric Sager
COO
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