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Plaid is seeking a Product Manager for Data Supply to establish and lead a new product area at the foundation of every Plaid product. You will define how Plaid allocates constrained provider capacity, scales traffic across products, and manages the economics of paid data access.
Plaid powers millions of people and thousands of companies—including Venmo, SoFi, Fortune 500 companies, and major banks—by making it easy to connect financial accounts to apps and services. The company's network covers 12,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK, and Europe.
The Network Enablement and Access team works to unlock the potential of Plaid's network by broadening and deepening connections with data partners. The Data Supply Traffic and Health team specifically owns how Plaid's requests flow to data providers, manages load on each provider, enforces constraints, and enables fair allocation of capacity across products and initiatives. As paid access expands, the team ensures traffic remains reliable, efficient, and cost-effective.
In this role, you will establish the strategy and roadmap for data-supply traffic, health, and cost efficiency. You will optimize for data freshness, balancing timeliness with provider capacity and cost to deliver better experiences to end users. You will own 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 run and improve this area.
Key responsibilities include:
- Define and own Plaid's strategy and roadmap for data-supply traffic, health, and cost efficiency
- Build and prioritize traffic-optimization initiatives, including opportunities from evolving machine-learning models and strategic provider concessions
- Serve as the bridge between data-provider relationship teams and internal product teams, translating provider constraints into internal priorities and product demand into clear provider asks
- Partner deeply with engineering and data teams to understand system behavior, evaluate technical trade-offs, and turn analysis into decisions
- Establish and track core traffic and cost metrics needed to operate the area, identify risks, and measure progress
This is a highly analytical and cross-functional role for someone who enjoys creating structure where no established playbook exists. You will work closely with engineering, data, and provider teams to turn technical, contractual, and commercial constraints into clear product priorities.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- 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; can engage engineers as a close product partner
- Platform and 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
