Staff Product Manager (Data Supply Expansion) Plaid
Data network for financial tools and freedom.
Permanent
Occasional remote
207,6K to 339,6K $ a year
> 5 years
Skills we're looking for
Analytical thinking
You'll be part of
United States of America
1283 employees
Software
Finance
Our take
Plaid builds infrastructure that allows consumers to interact with their bank account on the web through a number of third-party applications, like Venmo, Robinhood, Coinbase, Acorns and LendingClub. Plaid has integrated with over 12,000 financial institutions in the US, Canada, the UK and Europe. And about a quarter of people living in North America with bank accounts have linked with Plaid through at least one of the hundreds of apps that leverage Plaid’s application program interfaces (APIs). The platform allows companies to create financial services applications without having to hire their own team of engineers to build out a tool that connects apps to its users’ bank accounts. This is very valuable in a world where there are increasing number of fintechs, so the demand for Plaid's services are only going to grow.
You'll be working on
- You will decide what data Plaid goes after next. Bank data got us here, but the picture our customers need now includes things we do not have: property tax, merchant and SKU-level purchases, utilities, tax, payroll. Some of it we should build with our own technology. Some of it we should partner or pay for. Someone has to make those calls with conviction and a real business case behind them, and that person is you
- This is a 0-1 role. You will start with two to three engineers and a mandate to prove something real: Plaid’s first non-bank data offering, live, inside your first year. Along the way you will set the multi-year strategy for supply expansion, define what quality and completeness mean for data types nobody here has worked with before, and build the internal case that turns a promising vertical into a funded bet
- Set the multi-year strategy for non-bank data supply, grounded in what our products and customers need rather than what is technically interesting
- Build and quickly execute against the one year plan - showcasing fast momentum and impact
- Force-rank new data types across the company and own the business case for each, including the ones you recommend against
- Make and defend build, buy, and partner decisions alongside data partnerships, corporate development, and legal
- Ship Plaid’s first non-bank data offerings, as internal insight inputs or externalized to customers
- Partner with engineering and data teams on the taxonomies, quality controls, and coverage metrics that new data types require
- Define the metrics for supply expansion and report progress to leadership and cross-functional stakeholders
Benefits
- Vibrant offices in SF, NYC, and Raleigh-Durham—with catered meals, happy hours, and clubs to keep you connected
- Competitive pay, comprehensive health benefits, and support for fertility, mental health, and parental leave
- Lifestyle perks including home office stipends, daycare support, and commuting benefits like CitiBike and Lyft
We're looking for
- Leadership, stakeholder influence, and communication :You should be comfortable working cross-functionally (engineering, data, product) and influencing without direct authority. You must be able to explain complex technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders, drive alignment, and make trade-offs crystal clear
- Analytical rigor: You are comfortable working directly with data, cost models, and operational metrics to make and defend complex decisions
- Deep technical fluency: You can reason about large-scale systems, load management, API platforms, and machine-learning models and engage engineers as a close product partner
- 8+ years of experience, including 5+ in product management or equivalent founder/operator roles
- Platform & systems thinking mindset: You think in systems, and design for reuse and the long term
- We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn’t fully match the job description