Plaid
Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Credit)
$191K–$263K
San Francisco HQ +2 · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 28, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco HQ
Seattle Office
New York City Office - Experience
- 5–8+ years; Data Scientist or related analytics or data-focused role.
About the job
Supports Plaid’s Credit product by using analytics and experimentation to shape product strategy, improve performance and user experience, and grow the consumer network.
What you'll do
- Translate product and business questions into strategic and ad-hoc analyses, metrics, and recommendations.
- Build and maintain data models, dashboards, OKRs, KPIs, and scalable analytics pipelines.
- Design and analyze experiments to inform feature launches and product decisions.
What they ask for
- 5–8+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or in a related analytics or data-focused role.
- Experience as a product data scientist helping grow an early-stage or consumer-facing product; experience with experimentation, analysis, and performance improvement for user-facing products.
- Strong SQL skills and experience creating metrics that support stakeholder alignment and decision-making.
- Experience building or closely partnering on data pipelines using tools such as Airflow and dbt; ability to communicate analytical methods and recommendations to cross-functional partners.
Nice to have
- Fintech experience, including working with raw fintech or financial transaction data.
- Experience with causal inference or machine learning; Python proficiency.
Pay
$190.8K – $262.8K USD base salary
Tools
SQL, Python, Redshift, Databricks, notebooks, dbt, Airflow
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