Modeling Specialist, Payment Risk
About The Position
Our Payments Risk team builds and operates decisioning capabilities across Signal and Guarantee. We help customers tune thresholds and rules so they can approve more good transactions while reducing returns. For Guarantee, this work also protects the economics of the risk Plaid underwrites. You will be the technical, customer-facing modeling specialist for Signal and Guarantee. You will interpret model outputs, diagnose customer performance, and turn that analysis into concrete threshold and rules recommendations. You will own proofs of concept and retros, improve existing integrations, and help the team identify patterns that can be scaled through better processes and product capabilities.
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.
Nice To Haves
- Experience at a fraud or risk-scoring vendor, credit bureau, or bank / processor risk team.
- Familiarity with cash flow or bank transaction data.
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.
Benefits
- medical
- dental
- vision
- 401(k)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
