Fraud Model Consulting Lead

Plaid · Fintech · New York, NY · Product

This role is a customer-facing consulting lead for Plaid's fraud products. The individual will own the retro and POC process, partner with customers to demonstrate ROI, drive adoption, and serve as a feedback loop to the product team. While the role does not build models, it requires understanding ML model output to present business cases and work with technical stakeholders.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own the retro and POC process end-to-end and collaborate with customers and internal stakeholders at Plaid
  2. Partner closely with customers to help them understand the ROI of Protect and make recommendations for implementing our fraud products
  3. Drive post-retro follow-through to convert retro results into production usage
  4. Serve as a feedback loop between customers and product to drive our Protect roadmap

Skills

Required

  • 5-10 years of experience in a customer-facing analytical role in fintech, financial services, or a related domain (e.g., software/tech)
  • Experience working closely with data science teams
  • Experience managing consultative customer engagements where you owned the deliverable and the relationship
  • Comfort interpreting ML model output (e.g., precision/recall, score distributions) and explaining it to a non-technical audience

Nice to have

  • Background in data science or ML engineering, particularly on a fraud or risk team
  • Experience in fraud, identity, or risk — either from a fraud prevention vendor, a fraud team at a bank or fintech, or consulting on risk engagements