Plaid

FinTech

SeniorDataScientist-NetworkValue

$191–263k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME Remote Friendly
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The Brief

“Senior Data Scientist - Network Value at Plaid. Skills: Data Science, Product Analytics, Machine Learning, Causal Inference. Champion data-first approach. Be data/analytical thought partner”

What You'll Achieve.

Grow size and depth; Support Conversion OKRs; Support Remember Me OKRs

Industry & Context.

FinTech
Problems you'll solve

Translate ambiguous questions

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

5-8+ years experience, Experimentation experience, Ad-hoc analysis experience, Strategic insights development, SQL skills, Stakeholder alignment metrics, Airflow data pipelines, Dbt data pipelines, Cross-functional partnering, Data-driven user products

Nice to Have

Fintech experience, Raw fintech data experience, Causal inference experience, Machine learning experience, Python experience

What You'll Do.

Champion data-first approach

Be data/analytical thought partner

Translate business questions

Perform ad-hoc analyses

Perform strategic analyses

Build causal inference models

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Product managers; Engineers; Stakeholders

Full Job Description

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Network Value Data Science team is helping Plaid build an industry-leading fintech consumer network with best-in-class products and user experiences. We are a product analytics team embedded in key product areas across Plaid. We support some of Plaid’s most important OKRs and help execute on product roadmaps. We translate ambiguous product questions into tractable analysis, serve as analytical thought partners throughout the org, identify opportunities to build better products, and champion a data-first decision-making approach everywhere we go. You’ll be a Data Scientist supporting Remember Me. In this role, you’ll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers and engineers, helping drive data-informed product development for a critical user-facing product. You’ll translate business questions into analytics projects, perform ad-hoc and strategic analysis, improve visibility into core systems through data modeling and dashboarding, create OKRs quantifying progress against business goals, support feature ship decisions through experimentation, and build ML prototypes and causal inference models. Your work will directly support Conversion and Remember Me Enrolled Profile OKRs an

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