Plaid

Product Manager, Account Verification

Plaid • $145K — $175K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience, including 5+ in product management or equivalent roles.
  • Proven success in building and scaling fintech or payment products.
  • Strong strategic vision combined with executional drive.
  • Exceptional communication skills for technical and business audiences.
  • Ability to thrive in ambiguous, high-growth environments.
  • Track record of influencing cross-functional teams to achieve results.
  • Hands-on experience with data and AI tools for analysis and experimentation.

Responsibilities

  • Own the Account Verification strategy and roadmap, focusing on customer and business outcomes.
  • Reimagine the Auth experience to enable new use cases through flexible verification flows.
  • Expand verification capabilities using diverse methodologies like open banking and microdeposits.
  • Drive self-serve tools that empower developers to optimize verification paths without code.
  • Create cohesive experiences across account setup, risk management, and money movement.
  • Represent Plaid as a product thought leader in account verification.
  • Operate with ownership, making bold decisions to scale Plaid's essential products.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
  • 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Equity and commission opportunities based on position.
  • Support for building a diverse and equitable team.
Full Job Description
Plaid's Account Verification team builds the foundation of trust for open finance. We help fintechs and financial institutions connect and verify bank accounts securely so that money can move safely and instantly. Account Verification is the entry point for all of Plaid's payment-focused consumer experiences and is a critical building block for our customers. The team obsesses over creating seamless verification journeys that balance speed, reliability, and security, enabling consumers to confidently connect to the financial ecosystem.

As a PM for Account Verification, you'll own one of Plaid's most critical and high-impact product areas. You'll lead the evolution of our verification platform across Auth, Balance, and Identity Match, defining how millions of people and businesses connect their financial accounts every day.

We are looking for a high-ownership builder who thrives in ambiguity, loves building with customers, and is excited to define what's next for one of Plaid's most established and strategically important product lines. You'll set vision and strategy, drive execution across a cross-functional team, and shape how Plaid competes in an increasingly complex and, eventually, AI-driven verification landscape.

You'll partner closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to:
  • Deliver next-generation account verification experiences for fintechs, banks, platforms, and enterprises.
  • Expand Plaid's verification methods across open banking, ML, and traditional fallback-based approaches.
  • Position Plaid as the most trusted, flexible, and insight-rich verification provider in the industry.
  • Rethink how Plaid's flows work for a quickly diversifying set of customer use cases.

If you're energized by building systems that power millions of financial connections and enjoy balancing customer empathy with bold product strategy, this is your opportunity to lead at scale.

Responsibilities
  • Own the Account Verification strategy and roadmap, from long-term vision to near-term priorities, grounded in customer and business outcomes.
  • Reimagine the Auth experience to unlock new use cases (recurring payments, e-commerce, account funding) through modern, flexible verification flows.
  • Expand verification capabilities across a growing set of methodologies: open banking, database auth, microdeposits, and beyond.
  • Drive self-serve, experimentation, and orchestration tools that empower developers and operators to configure and optimize verification paths without code.
  • Partner across Plaid to create cohesive experiences across account setup, risk management, and money movement.
  • Represent Plaid internally and externally as a product thought leader, shaping how customers, partners, and the industry view account verification.
  • Operate like an owner. Move quickly, make bold decisions, and bring creative energy to scaling one of Plaid's most essential products.


Qualifications
  • 8+ years of experience, including 5+ in product management or equivalent founder/operator roles.
  • Proven success building and scaling products, ideally in fintech or payments.
  • Strong mix of strategic vision and executional drive; able to see the big picture while sweating the details.
  • Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and business audiences.
  • Demonstrated ability to thrive in ambiguous, high-growth environments and lead with conviction.
  • Track record of cross-functional impact, influencing design, engineering, and GTM teams to deliver results.
  • Hands-on comfort with data and AI tools for writing, analysis, prototyping, and experimentation.

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

About Plaid

Plaid is a financial services company based in New York City. The company builds a technology platform, which enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts. Plaid focuses on enabling consumers and businesses to interact with their bank accounts, check balances, and make payments through financial technology applications. The company was founded in 2013 by Zach Perret and William Hockey. In January 2020, Visa announced that it would acquire Plaid for $5.3 billion. The acquisition was completed in January 2021.
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600 employees
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Founded
2011

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