Plaid
Payment Risk Strategist
$162K–$223K
San Francisco HQ · Hybrid · Full-time · Posted Sep 24, 2026
- Experience
- 5–10 years of experience
About the job
Provides technical, customer-facing risk strategy for Plaid Signal and Guarantee by analyzing model and customer performance and recommending decision thresholds and rules.
What you'll do
- Own customer proofs of concept and retros, from analysis through recommendations and follow-through.
- Diagnose authorization and return-rate performance and recommend threshold or rules changes aligned with customer goals.
- Partner with customer-facing and technical teams to improve reporting, integrations, onboarding playbooks, and product requirements.
What they ask for
- Comfortable pulling and analyzing data using SQL.
- Experience interpreting risk, decisioning, or other quantitative model outputs.
- Experience diagnosing performance problems and making data-backed threshold or rules recommendations.
- Strong customer-facing consulting and communication skills; experience partnering across go-to-market and technical teams.
Nice to have
- Experience at a fraud or risk-scoring vendor, credit bureau, or bank / processor risk team.
- Familiarity with cash flow or bank transaction data.
Pay
$162K – $223.2K (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Signal, Guarantee
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