Staff Product Manager - Data Supply Expansion
About The Position
Plaid is seeking a Staff Product Manager to lead the expansion of its data offerings beyond traditional bank data. This is a 0-1 role focused on identifying, building, and launching Plaid's first non-bank data offerings within the first year. The role involves setting the multi-year strategy for supply expansion, defining quality and coverage metrics for new data types, and building business cases to secure funding for promising verticals. The ideal candidate will have a strong analytical and technical background, excellent leadership and communication skills, and the ability to influence stakeholders across various functions.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience, including 5+ in product management or equivalent founder/operator roles.
- 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.
- Platform & systems thinking mindset: You think in systems, and design for reuse and the long term.
- 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
Responsibilities
- 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
- 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
