People Research Scientist in San Francisco

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Plaid's Recruiting Operations team exists to build and sustain the infrastructure, programs, and data that enable our recruiting organization to hire effectively, efficiently, and equitably. We drive operational strategy, systems implementation, data integrity, and process consistency across the full hiring lifecycle. In 2026, we are focused on scaling our coordination function, fully operationalizing Ashby as our ATS, and launching programs that raise the bar for recruiting effectiveness across Plaid. We are a lean, high-impact team, and we are growing. As the Recruiting Operations Coordinator at Plaid, you will sit at the intersection of recruiting coordination and operational program support. You will own white-glove scheduling for high-touch hiring pipelines, serve as the on-site RC presence in our San Francisco office, and act as a core member of the Recruiting Operations team -- contributing to the systems, tools, and processes that keep the function running. This is an entry-level program management role that flexes between recruiting coordination and operational program support -- the balance will shift based on hiring volume and team needs. You will be one of the first pe

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. 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 Payment Risk Consulting Lead 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. 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 lo

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. About the team The Privacy & Regulatory Counsel will join Plaid’s Privacy & Regulatory Legal team, which supports Plaid in building infrastructure and products responsibly by translating complex regulatory expectations into concrete guidance. We are a lean, highly collaborative team that includes Privacy and Regulatory counseling. Role Description As Privacy & Regulatory Counsel at Plaid, you will partner with cross-functional teams to analyze complex legal and regulatory issues, provide practical guidance, and support business initiatives in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. This role is ideal for an ambitious attorney who exhibits a growth mindset and eagerness to learn. We value strong communicators who can empathize with business partners, deliver solutions-oriented advice, and foster trust with colleagues at all levels. Responsibilities Monitor and analyze new or changing laws, regulations, supervisory guidance, enforcement activity, and industry developments - and translate them into concise and practical guidance. Answer questions about regulatory compliance for Product, Governance, People, and other cross functional teams. Maintain Plaid’s regula

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. The Fraud Data team at Plaid builds the machine learning systems that power Plaid’s fraud detection products, leveraging insights from across Plaid’s network to help identify and stop fraud before it happens. Our team works across the full data science and machine learning lifecycle—from discovering new signals and experimenting with models to deploying and optimizing them in production. We continuously learn from real-world model performance and customer feedback to improve our systems and develop new ways to protect customers and consumers from evolving fraud threats. As a Senior Machine Learning Engineer on Plaid's Fraud Data team, you will develop models that improve fraud detection for our customers. You will identify predictive patterns in Plaid's network data and lead projects from initial experiments through model deployment and ongoing improvement. Investigate fraud patterns and model errors to identify new signals, improve detection, and expand coverage across customers and use cases. Develop training datasets and predictive features, addressing challenges such as incomplete labels, class imbalance, data leakage, and changing fraud behavior. Design, train, and tune model

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. About the Team At Embedded Insights, we find the best machine learning opportunities for external products and internal systems, and collaborate with cross-functional partners to bring them to life. We are a central team of Machine Learning Engineers and Data Scientists. We embed with partner teams to build and apply machine learning models that improve internal decision-making and power the Plaid product suite. About the Role You will be the first Data Scientist on the Embedded Insights team, part of Plaid’s Data organization. You will establish the analytics and metrics backbone for a team supporting a diverse set of internal and external products. You will help drive better decision-making, support machine learning model development, and contribute directly to the health of the Plaid network and the quality of Plaid’s products. Your day-to-day work will include: Analyzing entities across the Plaid network to understand behavior and identify opportunities, anomalies, and risks. Creating foundational metrics, dashboards, and monitoring systems that provide a clear view of network health and machine learning model performance. Evaluating the value and performance of machine learni

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. The Compliance team is responsible for ensuring Compliance at Plaid with all the laws and regulations that apply to us, as well as our internal policies. We help make sure Plaid stays within the bounds of our legal obligations, and partner with business stakeholders to build processes and systems to demonstrate our compliance. Role Description As a GTM Compliance Analyst, you’ll help Plaid evaluate and onboard customers in a way that supports growth while protecting the company from regulatory and compliance risk. You’ll review prospective and existing customer deals, assess customer business models and use cases, conduct risk-based diligence, and determine when additional conditions, approvals, or escalations are needed. You’ll work closely with Sales, Account Management, Legal, Product, and Customer Oversight to translate complex requirements into practical guidance and keep deals moving. You’ll also help build the playbooks, workflows, and reporting needed to make GTM compliance more consistent and scalable as Plaid expands into new products, customer segments, and regulated use cases. Responsibilities Review prospective and existing customer deals for regulatory, licensing, po

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. About the Team The Workplace Experience (WPE) team is responsible for shaping the employee experience at Plaid, ensuring that our workspaces, events, and cultural touchpoints drive connection, collaboration, productivity, and engagement. Within WPE, the Events & Experiences team brings Plaid's culture to life by designing and executing programs that foster belonging and engagement across both in-office and distributed environments. The team curates a wide range of experiences—from flagship company-wide gatherings to in-office celebrations, DEIB initiatives, virtual events, and milestone moments. They also lead Plaid's in-person onboarding, ensuring every new hire has a meaningful, high-impact introduction to our culture, values, and ways of working. About the Role We're looking for an Onboarding Coordinator to join our Employee Experience team in San Francisco. You'll help create a warm and seamless welcome for new Plaids by coordinating onboarding logistics, supporting new-hire travel, answering questions, and assisting with in-person sessions. You'll also support employee events and programs that help Plaids feel connected, valued, and engaged. What You'll Do Onboarding Help

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. The Business Legal team, which includes the Corporate Legal team, is a team of centralized legal subject matter experts who provide support across all of Plaid’s functions. Our mission is to craft empathetic, forward-looking solutions that empower our stakeholders and propel innovation and competitive differentiation. Role Description Plaid is looking for a highly capable and resourceful corporate generalist to join its Business Legal team, which includes Corporate Legal. The Corporate Counsel role is responsible for all areas of corporate law and governance, including corporate governance & Board support, corporate transactions support, subsidiary and entity management, corporate regulatory compliance and policy development. The ideal candidate will be one who can provide empathetic and practical advice to the business and work well with various cross functional teams and stakeholders. Responsibilities Corporate Governance & Board Support: Support the company’s corporate governance framework and Board of Directors activities, including preparing board and committee meeting materials (resolutions, minutes, written consents) and maintaining corporate records and filings to

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Team Description We're Plaid's Revenue Accounting team, and we own the order-to-cash process that ensures every Plaid customer is billed accurately and that revenue and accounts receivable are reflected correctly across our financial systems. We work at the intersection of commercial deal execution, billing, accounting, and financial reporting. We partner closely with Commercial, RevOps, Legal, Billing Engineering, Business Technology, Strategic Finance, and the broader Accounting org to turn customer agreements into accurate, scalable billing. It's no small feat at Plaid's scale and deal complexity. Our mission is to protect revenue integrity, build customer trust, and build the systems, processes, and controls that let Plaid scale toward its next stage as a company. Role Summary You'll own the operating layer of Plaid's order-to-cash process, turning signed customer agreements into accurate billing configurations, invoices, reconciliations, and financial records. You'll review order forms and commercial terms and translate them into billing, run monthly invoice cycles, process billing adjustments and credit memos, reconcile activity across systems like NetSuite and Salesforce, r

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. The Integrations Operations Engineering (IOE) team strengthens Plaid's network with financial institutions by directly resolving integration issues to increase the reliability and quality of data, and by building new integrations to grow our financial network. We sit at the nexus of engineering, a deep understanding of Plaid's products and customers, and direct financial-institution relationships: we write and ship the code that keeps connectivity healthy, we use data to focus on the issues with the greatest customer impact, and we work directly with data partners (the financial institutions and platforms themselves) to resolve the problems that can't be fixed from our side alone. The team plays a mission-critical role in ensuring industry-leading connectivity so our customers can meet ever-expanding financial-services use cases and reach as many users as possible. What You'll Do Investigate and resolve the highest-impact integration issues by writing maintainable, tested code and deploying it to production, then monitor for regression or degradation after your changes ship. Prioritize by customer impact. The team runs a business-value-based prioritization model that automatically

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Senior Data Scientist - Network Value (Credit) The Network Value Data Science team is helping Plaid build an industry-leading fintech consumer network with best-in-class products and user experiences. We are a product analytics team embedded in key product areas across Plaid. We support some of Plaid’s most important OKRs and help execute on product roadmaps. We translate ambiguous product questions into tractable analysis, serve as analytical thought partners throughout the org, identify opportunities to build better products, and champion a data-first decision-making approach everywhere we go. You’ll be a Data Scientist supporting Credit, a critical product area within Plaid’s Network Value portfolio. You’ll become a data and analytical thought partner to product managers, engineers, and cross-functional stakeholders, helping shape Credit product strategy, improve product performance and user experience, and grow Plaid’s consumer network. You’ll translate business questions into analytics projects, perform ad-hoc and strategic analysis, improve visibility into core systems through data modeling and dashboarding, create OKRs and KPIs tied to business goals and user experiences, a

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. The Marketing Operations (Ops) Team at Plaid builds the essential foundation that enables the Marketing function to operate efficiently, scale sustainably, and align with the company’s strategic goals. We focus on people, technology and process to drive operational excellence and optimize marketing performance. Our team is focused on creating and executing impactful marketing strategies that resonate with our target audiences, drive sustainable growth through high-quality pipeline generation, and enhance marketing efficiency. By integrating innovative technologies, we strive for seamless workflows and data-driven decision-making. We also continuously strengthen the foundation of a high-performing marketing organization, ensuring that processes and systems are in place to support long-term success. Responsibilities: Campaign Planning and Execution: Manage the end-to-end planning and execution of marketing campaigns, ensuring they are well-resourced, delivered on time, and within budget. Cross-Functional Communication and Coordination: Drive ongoing communication and coordination across teams, ensuring alignment and smooth information exchange throughout the lifecycle of each campaign. Meeting Facilit

About the Team OpenAI's People team helps hire, develop, and support the people building safe and beneficial AGI. Within that team, People Systems builds the technical foundation that enables our HR, recruiting, payroll, benefits, and performance operations to scale with quality, speed, and rigor. We work at the intersection of HR systems, software engineering, and internal tooling. Our goal is not just to keep core systems running, but to build durable technical leverage for the company. About the Role We're hiring a Workday Engineer to help design, build, and operate the systems that power critical people workflows at OpenAI. This is a highly technical role for someone who combines strong Workday expertise with real engineering fluency. You'll build reliable integrations, improve system architecture, automate complex workflows, and help connect Workday to internal tools, external platforms, and emerging AI-driven systems. You should be comfortable going beyond configuration work. We're looking for someone who can reason through ambiguous systems problems, write and debug technical solutions, work effectively in Git-based environments, and use modern developer workflows, including CLI-driven tooling, to build and operate with speed and discipline. You'll partner closely with cross-functional teams across People, Finance, Security, and Engineering, including our People Innovations team, to build systems that are secure, scalable, and practical. Some work will involve improving mature production infrastructure; some will involve building entirely new workflows and capabilities from scratch. In this role, you will Design, build, and maintain Workday integrations, applications, and workflow automations across domains such as payroll, benefits, recruiting, performance, and case management Improve the reliability, quality, and scalability of People systems through strong engineering, testing, and operational practices Build technical solutions that connect Workday with i

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. Plaid Protect is a real-time fraud intelligence product built on a unique advantage: Plaid’s network-level visibility across bank accounts, devices, identities, sessions, institutions, applications, and financial behavior. Protect helps customers detect first-party fraud, synthetic identities, account takeovers, and coordinated attacks that are difficult to see from a single application, account, or transaction. Trust Index turns that fraud intelligence into real-time fraud scores and actionable attributes. This team builds the systems that make this intelligence possible: low-latency inference, new data and model integrations, customer-facing APIs and attributes, safe rollouts, and feedback loops. Ti3 expanded Plaid’s fraud graph nearly 10x and, in early testing, detected up to 41% more fraud at the same false-positive rate. Learn more about Ti2 and Ti3 . We are a small, high-agency team working closely with Product, Data Science, and Machine Learning. We value demos over docs, conviction over consensus/alignment, builder schedule over meeting-heavy calendars. We’re scrappy and a talent-dense team that has high agency and high ownership. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Protect Core team, you wi

We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the 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. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo, SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam. We turn Plaid's product expertise, proprietary data, customer impact, and perspective on intelligent finance into stories that build understanding, trust, and demand. We sit within Brand Marketing, owning resource content, customer storytelling, and owned editorial franchises, and we're increasingly bringing that storytelling to life through video and audio. You'll join as our first dedicated video and audio producer, reporting to our incoming Content Lead. You'll jump in immediately to produce Intelligent Finance, our flagship podcast and video series hosted by CEO and co-founder Zach Perret, already in production, so you'll pick up the reins without a long ramp-up period. You'll own production end-to-end, partner closely with our Content Design team to shape stories, and work directly with senior leaders to translate our product, data, and industry perspective into content people actually want to watch and listen to. Responsibilities: Immediately step in to produce Intelligent Finance, our already-underway podcast and video series, with no ramp-up period. Own end-to-end production of Plaid's flagship video and audio content, from concept through final delivery. Partner closely with Content Design