Staff Product Manager - AI & Data Foundations

The role

You will build shared platforms that power Plaid's AI and data capabilities. You will partner with engineers to scale infrastructure including AI platforms, data platforms, and connecting systems.

What you will do

• Define the vision, roadmap, and success metrics for shared platforms.
• Partner with engineers to design and ship foundational capabilities.
• Build platforms that Plaid teams choose to use.
• Develop a deep understanding of internal users and remove friction from workflows.
• Balance immediate product needs with longer-term platform investments.
• Partner with product, engineering, data, research, and security to identify shared needs.
• Translate complex technical decisions into clear narratives for stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience including direct experience building AI/ML platform systems, applied intelligence products, or other data infrastructure from concept to production
• Deep technical fluency in modern data and AI/ML systems
• Demonstrated success operating in ambiguous, early-stage environments
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced startup environment
• Platform mindset and experience building scalable developer or data platforms
• Strategic and executional range
• Strong communicator and cross-functional leader
• Commitment to responsible AI and transparency

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with LLMs, embeddings, or agentic systems in production
• Experience building AI developer tooling in production
• Familiarity with applied AI in regulated or high-trust domains such as fintech, identity, or risk

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.