Product Manager - Data Supply Health and Traffic

Plaid•New York, NY

10d

About The Position

Plaid is seeking a Product Manager for Data Supply Health and Traffic to establish and lead a new product area critical to the foundation of every Plaid product. This role will define how Plaid allocates constrained provider capacity, scales traffic across products, and manages the economics of paid data access. The Product Manager will also optimize for data freshness, balancing timeliness with provider capacity and cost to enable Plaid's products to deliver better experiences to end users. This is a highly analytical and cross-functional role for someone who enjoys creating structure where no established playbook exists. In the first year, the successful candidate will build the operating framework for traffic allocation and fairness, develop a clear view of paid-access cost and efficiency, and establish the metrics Plaid uses to operate and improve this area.

Requirements

8+ years of experience, including 5+ in product management or equivalent founder/operator roles.
Analytical rigor: Comfortable working directly with data, cost models, and operational metrics to make and defend complex decisions.
Deep technical fluency: Ability to reason about large-scale systems, load management, API platforms, and machine-learning models and engage engineers as a close product partner.
Platform & systems thinking mindset: Think in systems, and design for reuse and the long term.
Leadership, stakeholder influence, and communication: Comfortable working cross-functionally (engineering, data, product) and influencing without direct authority. Must be able to explain complex technical ideas to non-technical stakeholders, drive alignment, and make trade-offs crystal clear.

Responsibilities

Define and own Plaid's strategy and roadmap for data-supply traffic, health, and cost efficiency.
Build and prioritize traffic-optimization initiatives, including opportunities created by evolving machine-learning models and strategic concessions negotiated with providers.
Serve as the bridge between Plaid's data-provider relationship teams and internal product teams, translating provider constraints into internal priorities and product demand into clear asks of providers.
Partner deeply with engineering and data teams to understand system behavior, evaluate technical trade-offs, and turn analysis into decisions.
Establish and track the core traffic and cost metrics needed to operate the area, identify risks, and measure progress.