Senior Data Scientist - Embedded Insights

The role

You will be the first Data Scientist on the Embedded Insights team. You will establish the analytics and metrics backbone to support internal and external products and help drive decision-making through machine learning model support and network health analysis.

What you will do

• Analyze entities across the Plaid network to understand behavior and identify opportunities, anomalies, and risks.
• Create foundational metrics, dashboards, and monitoring systems for network health and machine learning model performance.
• Evaluate the value and performance of machine learning models using customer and internal data.
• Identify opportunities to improve existing models and translate findings into actionable narratives.
• Design experiments, define success metrics and guardrails, analyze results, and communicate recommendations.
• Analyze Plaid product and customer data to identify opportunities for product improvement and expansion.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to build reliable data models and analytics workflows.

Required 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.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Statistics, Engineering, Economics, or a closely related field.

Nice to have

• Experience building or partnering on data pipelines using dbt or Airflow

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401(k)

About the company

Plaid builds tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create products. The company's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe.