Staff Product Manager - Data Supply Expansion

Plaid•New York, NY

12d

About The Position

Plaid is dedicated to empowering the transformation of how people interact with their finances by building tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life, working with thousands of companies to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. The Network Enablement and Access team's mission is to unlock the potential of the Plaid network by broadening and deepening our connection to data partners. This role is responsible for deciding what data Plaid pursues next, including non-bank data sources such as property tax, merchant and SKU-level purchases, utilities, tax, and payroll. This is a 0-1 role where the individual will start with two to three engineers and a mandate to launch Plaid's first non-bank data offering within the first year. The role involves setting the multi-year strategy for supply expansion, defining quality and completeness for new data types, and building internal cases for new verticals.

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.
Ability 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