San Francisco, CA
Financial data network powering fintech apps
Plaid builds a data network enabling apps to securely connect with users' bank accounts across 12,000+ institutions. It serves thousands of fintechs like Venmo and Betterment, Fortune 500 companies, and banks to facilitate financial data access, payments, and verification. This infrastructure unlocks healthier financial lives by powering tools for millions worldwide.
Founding leader to build Plaid's Detection and Response team from scratch. Manage analysts and engineers on detection infrastructure, AI triage, incident response, Red Teaming, and Fraud Operations while partnering with the CISO to strengthen security posture.
Lead a team of accountants overseeing AP, T&E, month-end close, and GL functions at Plaid. Ensure GAAP/SOX compliance, drive AI-enabled automation, and partner cross-functionally to scale financial operations. Requires 6+ years accounting experience including Big 4 and leadership.
Lead complex cross-functional technical programs to improve Plaid's data infrastructure, governance, and ML platforms. Partner with engineering, product, data, and legal teams to drive execution, manage dependencies, and deliver scalable solutions that enhance data quality and reliability.
Commercial Counsel responsible for drafting, reviewing, and negotiating Plaid's revenue-generating commercial agreements including MSAs, order forms, and partnerships. Serves as key legal partner to sales and business teams on complex technology transactions involving sensitive data, while mitigating risks and accelerating revenue.
Lead Plaid's Corporate Development as primary architect for M&A, investments, and build-vs-buy decisions. Build deal pipelines, conduct market intelligence, execute transactions end-to-end, and drive post-deal integration while shaping strategic direction. Requires 12+ years in IB/PE/CorpDev with technology experience.
Strategic Finance Lead partnering with Plaid's Product and Engineering organizations. Owns product-level revenue/gross margin forecasting, resource allocation, capacity planning, performance reporting, and cross-functional analysis for executive and board audiences. Requires 8+ years in strategic finance or related fields with tech product finance experience.
Manage and grow relationships with a portfolio of 50-100 mid-to-large enterprise accounts at Plaid. Drive revenue through product adoption, renewals, and new opportunities while serving as the primary customer point of contact and strategic advisor.
Drive P&L forecasting, build financial models and analytical frameworks, evaluate growth opportunities through TAM, unit economics and investment analysis, and deliver insights to leadership at a high-growth fintech company. Requires 2-3 years in IB, PE, VC, strategic finance, FP&A or consulting plus strong modeling and communication skills.
Drive FP&A processes, forecasting, and financial insights for Plaid's GTM organization. Partner with leadership on strategic decisions, capital allocation, sales planning, and KPI optimization. Requires 6-8+ years in finance, strong modeling and analytical skills.
Account Executive focused exclusively on leading Insurance companies across North America. Responsible for developing and closing large enterprise deals, building executive relationships, and shaping Plaid's insurance product strategy. Requires 7+ years quota-carrying sales experience including 4+ years in insurance.
Lead acquisition and execution of complex enterprise partnership deals with influential companies to expand Plaid's reach across Payments, Credit, and Identity/Fraud. Requires 7+ years in partnerships or BD with a track record closing high-value, multi-stakeholder deals.
Product Manager on the Growth team owning Plaid's self-serve onboarding funnel end-to-end for SMB/long-tail customers. Drive acquisition, reduce friction, build upsell motions, and use experimentation/analytics to optimize revenue efficiency while partnering closely with GTM, Engineering, and Design.
TechOps Engineer owning and improving corporate infrastructure as code at Plaid. Responsibilities include Okta/endpoint management, automation, SaaS platforms (Google Workspace, Slack, Linear), AI tooling evaluation, and on-call. Requires 3+ years macOS fleet support, Terraform, scripting, and MDM experience.
Own GRC Engineering at Plaid by building a codified, continuous, data-driven compliance system. Architect pipelines for controls/evidence, implement continuous monitoring and policy-as-code in CI/CD, turn risk data into real-time signals, and scale AI/agentic workflows to eliminate manual toil.
Drive execution of Plaid's credit decisioning product roadmap including LendScore and CashFlow Insights. Partner with engineering, data science, sales and marketing to ship features, run GTM, analyze metrics, and drive lender adoption.
Lead compensation support for client groups, own annual/mid-year cycles in Workday, manage benchmarking and comp systems (Compa, Pave), and build models for program design. Requires 5+ years in compensation, cycle ownership, equity knowledge, and strong analytics.
Technical Support Engineer investigating and resolving customer integration issues for Plaid's financial API platform. Requires 2+ years customer-facing experience plus hands-on knowledge of REST APIs, SQL, HTML/CSS and a scripting language.
Own and grow Plaid’s Financial Management API products (Transactions, Investments, Liabilities) by discovering new use cases, setting long-term vision, collaborating with engineering/design on 0→1 features, and driving adoption/ARR through data-driven decisions in a B2B context.
Staff Software Engineer building and leading development of Plaid's core security infrastructure including IAM, key management, encryption, and access control systems. Requires experience with scalable secure systems architecture plus technical leadership.
Full-time reporter for This Week in Fintech at Plaid, responsible for breaking news on banking, payments, crypto and VC, cultivating sources in-person, and producing deep enterprise reporting and newsletter content. Requires strong financial literacy, news instincts, and a proactive "front page" mindset; open to experienced journalists or standout interns.
Account Executive responsible for selling Plaid's credit and lending solutions to prospective and existing high-growth lenders. Owns full sales cycle, builds pipeline, and partners cross-functionally to help customers approve more borrowers and reduce risk. Requires 5+ years quota-carrying sales experience, preferably in consumer lending/credit, with API knowledge.
Senior Software Engineer building and operating AI-native internal tooling and platforms at Plaid. Focus on enabling non-engineering teams (Ops, Support) to automate workflows with AI by defining safe, durable product surfaces, translating operational needs into software, and owning systems end-to-end. Requires 5+ years software engineering experience and hands-on AI tool usage.
Senior Data Scientist on Plaid's Network Value team supporting the Guard product. Translate product questions into analysis, build metrics/OKRs/dashboards, run experiments, and drive data-informed decisions for a 0-to-1 user-facing fintech product.
Create and evolve Plaid API documentation, build sample apps and demos, and advocate for developers by translating their needs to internal teams. Requires 5+ years in DevRel or related technical roles, experience writing docs and building demos, and coding in backend and frontend languages.
Own the full sales cycle for Plaid’s Fraud and Identity solutions, driving new business and expansion revenue. Requires 7+ years quota-carrying sales experience, preferably selling fraud/risk solutions to technical and business buyers.
Senior Software Engineer on Plaid's Product Security team building production-grade services, libraries, and frameworks (VM orchestration, vuln management automation, secure controls) to make secure development the default path for all engineers. Requires 5+ years building/scaling production services plus strong architecture skills.
Staff Software Engineer leading the architecture and delivery of Plaid's data governance platform. Design and implement scalable distributed systems for data deletion, usage restrictions, classification, and auditability while partnering with Legal, Privacy, and Security teams.
Account Executive driving revenue for Plaid's Payments solutions (Account Verification, ACH Risk, Money Movement). Partners with AEs/AMs to develop and close deals, serves as payments SME, and relays market insights to Product. Requires 7+ years B2B sales with deep payments expertise and quota attainment.
Business Development Representative supporting Account Executives in the FinTech segment at Plaid. Responsibilities include outbound prospecting of fintechs and neobanks, pipeline building, qualification calls, and evangelizing Plaid's API platform to founders, PMs, and engineers. Requires 1-3 years sales or pipeline development experience, preferably in SaaS/fintech.
Enterprise Business Development Representative responsible for strategic account mapping, executive prospecting, and qualifying early-stage opportunities for Fortune 500 and high-growth enterprises. Requires 1-3 years sales/pipeline experience, ability to navigate complex organizations, and technical aptitude with Plaid's APIs and fintech solutions.
Support Account Executives by building sales pipelines through outbound prospecting and campaigns targeting banks, credit unions, wealth-tech platforms, and digital brokerages. Ideal for candidates with 1-3 years SaaS/Fintech sales experience who can evangelize Plaid's value in financial services and learn technical product details.
Staff Software Engineer building and scaling Plaid's Data Infrastructure platform (warehouses, lakehouses, Spark, streaming, orchestration). Lead projects to improve ML workflows, data freshness, ETL pipelines; mentor engineers and reduce operational burden. Requires 6+ years software engineering with deep data infrastructure expertise.
Manage and grow relationships with high-growth SMB customers at Plaid. Own revenue targets through upselling, integrations, adoption, and cross-functional problem-solving while building C-suite partnerships. Requires 2-4 years in relationship management/sales with technical aptitude.
Account Executive focused on selling Plaid's API platform to large banks and wealth management firms. Drive end-to-end enterprise sales, build executive relationships, and shape product strategy for financial institutions.
Staff Business Analyst on Plaid's Credit team building bespoke cash flow-based solutions and recommendations for lenders. Requires 6-10 years credit risk/underwriting experience to translate insights into practical decisioning and improve adoption of Plaid data.
Own Plaid's Security Contracts program: review security provisions in MSAs/DPAs/addenda, provide positions to Legal/GTM for negotiations, build scalable processes/playbooks, track patterns for improvements, and support questionnaires/audit calls. Requires 6+ years in security GRC/assurance with fintech experience, deep clause knowledge, and AI fluency.
Lead a team of 8 engineers building the foundational platform for Plaid's Dashboard (dashboard.plaid.com). Define long-term strategy, drive high-impact outcomes, and grow high-performing teams while maintaining high technical quality and velocity.
Manage enterprise payment partners at Plaid, owning the full partner lifecycle from technical integration to scaling volumes and driving product expansion. Requires 7+ years experience and proven success growing large partner relationships.
Lead technical strategy and API integrations for financial institutions and fintechs. Own partner relationships, drive technical roadmaps, and serve as the primary technical liaison between Plaid engineering, product, and external stakeholders.
Drive strategic and operational initiatives for Product or GTM teams at Plaid, owning business reporting, OKRs, dashboards, and cross-functional projects that impact revenue and partnerships.
Own the roadmap and labeling pipeline for Plaid Protect's fraud intelligence platform. Partner daily with data scientists to define fraud vector scores and translate model outputs into customer-facing product features.
Drive new enterprise deals and build long-term relationships with large North American companies. Focus on identifying and closing major deals across verticals in Plaid's Enterprise segment.
Sales Lead responsible for building and managing a full sales pipeline for fintech media products including newsletters, podcasts, events, and sponsored content. Requires 3+ years in advertising/media sales and experience closing deals with financial institutions and fintech brands.
Staff SRE on the Release Engineering team defining and scaling reliability practices, architecting SLO/error-budget programs, and driving progressive delivery and automated safety gates across product engineering.
Lead strategy and execution for a portfolio of fintech events including conferences, executive dinners, and community experiences. Manage vendors, sponsors, budgets, and onsite operations while building relationships across the fintech ecosystem.
Provide technical guidance and support to Plaid partners, managing integration reviews, troubleshooting, and best practices to maximize product usage and drive customer success.
Lead a team of 4 engineers building AI applications and LLM-powered products at Plaid. Drive strategy for AI integrations, customer support agents, and agentic commerce systems.
Technical lead partnering with Enterprise AEs to design solutions, run POCs, overcome objections, and drive adoption of Plaid's API products for large financial services customers.
Senior Financial Analyst on the Corporate Finance team responsible for long-range planning, board process management, SBC/equity modeling, cash flow forecasting, and capital structure analysis. Partners with CFO, Board, and Corp Dev on enterprise financial strategy.
Own design and execution of joint marketing programs with Plaid partners. Translate business objectives into GTM plans for co-marketing campaigns, partner enablement, and performance measurement to drive awareness, adoption, and pipeline across Credit, Lending, and Banking solutions. Requires 6-8+ years B2B/partner marketing experience.