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About the Role
As the technical, customer-facing modeling specialist for Signal and Guarantee, you will interpret model outputs, diagnose customer performance, and provide concrete threshold and rules recommendations. You will own proofs of concept and retros, improve existing integrations, and help identify patterns for scaling through better processes and product capabilities.
Responsibilities
- Own customer proofs of concept and retros from analysis through recommendations and follow-through.
- Proactively optimize Signal customers, prioritizing accounts with high return rates.
- Read model outputs and diagnose the drivers of authorization and return-rate performance.
- Recommend threshold and rules changes that align with each customer's risk and authorization goals.
- Help Guarantee customers tune thresholds to achieve target authorization rates while protecting loss performance.
- Partner with AEs and TAMs to bring deep product and modeling expertise into customer engagements.
- Improve decision and return reporting from customers to strengthen their experience and Plaid's models.
- Turn recurring customer insights into onboarding playbooks and product requirements.
Requirements
- 5–10 years of experience
- Comfortable pulling and cutting your own data (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.
- Demonstrated ability to build repeatable processes in an ambiguous environment.
- Experience at a fraud or risk-scoring vendor, credit bureau, or bank / processor risk team.
- Familiarity with cash flow or bank transaction data.
Skills
- SQL
- Risk modeling
- Decisioning modeling
- Quantitative modeling
- Consulting
- Communication
- Process building
Location
- San Francisco
- New York
- Seattle
- Washington D.C.
- Raleigh
- London
- Amsterdam
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Mid-level
- Senior
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401(k)
About the Company
- 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, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam.
- Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone.
- To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable.
- We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences.
- We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description.
- We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!
Equal Opportunity
- Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company.
- We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.
- We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
- Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process.
- If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com.