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$196k
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Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Plaid
Plaid is a financial technology company that builds a data network powering digital finance applications, enabling consumers to securely connect their financial accounts to apps and services. Industry: Financial Technology & Data Infrastructure
Plaid currently has
41 open roles
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Listed pay typically runs
$201,600–$272,400
across 41 roles with salary data.
Data Science Manager - Fraud will lead a team within the Fraud Data organization focused on customer-facing data science and product analytics. The manager is responsible for setting the team roadmap, mentoring data scientists, and overseeing technical reviews while remaining hands-on with critical investigations. Key responsibilities include defining product metrics, establishing processes for customer retrospectives, identifying recurring fraud signals, and translating customer insights into scalable product capabilities. This role requires deep expertise in fraud and risk domains to improve and scale fraud products. The ideal candidate possesses strong technical skills in Python, SQL, statistics, and applied modeling. Additional preferred experience includes graph-based data systems, causal inference techniques, model interpretability, and dbt for data transformation. The work centers on solving complex fraud problems by building robust data foundations and analytics to drive product decisions.
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