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 Europe is building Plaid in Europe,the open banking platform that makes international expansion one click away for fintechs who want to scale globally. We are the only transatlantic open banking provider, uniquely positioned to help fintechs scale globally with a single Plaid integration.

Our team localises, scales, and operates the bank connectivity layer that powers payments, underwriting, onboarding, and identity,abstracting fragmented European rails and regulations into a single, reliable platform.

The team owns four core pillars:

• Account-to-Account Payments
• Cash Flow & Income Insights for Credit
• Bank Connectivity Across Europe
• Consumer Experience

This team operates at the intersection of distributed systems, financial infrastructure, and consumer UX. We solve hard problems in payments reliability, data quality, regulatory complexity, and cross-market expansion,enabling fintechs to launch in new countries with minimal additional engineering effort.

We are a high-impact, cross-functional engineering team working closely with US platform teams, GTM, compliance, and operations to make Plaid the default open banking layer for global fintechs operating in Europe.

You will serve as the technical leader for Plaid's Europe engineering team, setting direction across a broad product surface area while staying hands-on in the codebase. You'll partner closely with the Engineering Manager and PM to turn product strategy into executable roadmaps, and maintain a strong connection to US platform teams to keep Europe aligned with company-wide engineering investments.

Responsibilities

• Set technical direction across Europe's product surface area, translating product strategy into clear engineering roadmaps with crisp scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Stay hands-on,owning high-leverage projects, spiking and prototyping to de-risk, or going deep on the hardest parts of projects others own, depending on the quarter.
• Own technical excellence for the team,setting and holding a high bar through design reviews, architectural decisions, and code quality.
• Partner closely with the EM and PM to identify opportunities, make tradeoffs, and keep the team focused on the highest-leverage work.
• Maintain a strong connection to US engineering and platform teams, ensuring Europe's requirements shape platform decisions and the team leverages shared infrastructure rather than building in isolation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of software engineering experience, including operating as a technical lead on a product engineering team.
• Strong programming skills in Go, Python, or similar backend languages.
• Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems (four 9s) in production,understands the reliability and correctness bar required for critical infrastructure.
• Demonstrated track record of effective delegation,has scaled their impact by enabling senior engineers to own technical direction, not by doing everything themselves.
• Strong product engineering instinct,can take a product strategy and translate it into a crisp engineering roadmap with clear scoping, sequencing, and tradeoffs.
• Experience operating and scaling high-availability systems in production.
• [Nice to have] Payments domain experience,has worked in payments infrastructure, processing, or a related domain.
• [Nice to have] Experience working across time zones with distributed engineering teams.
• [Nice to have] Fintech or financial infrastructure experience beyond payments (e.g., credit, lending, identity).
• [Nice to have] Familiarity with open banking APIs and bank connectivity patterns.

Additional Information

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!

Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com.

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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.

As the Product Lead for Transfer, you'll own how real-time money movement works across the Plaid network and the broader financial ecosystem. You'll guide the roadmap for our payments platform and oversee the systems, operations, and partnerships that keep money moving safely and reliably every day.

This role combines deep product and operational leadership, defining how Plaid scales its payments capabilities across ACH, RTP, FedNow, Wires, and Request for Payment (RfP). You'll work cross-functionally with engineering, operations, risk, and go-to-market to build the most trusted and resilient payments platform in the market.

Responsibilities:

• Own the money movement strategy. Define the long-term vision and roadmap for Plaid's Transfer products across ACH, RTP, FedNow, Wires, and RfP.
• Scale real-time payments. Lead the evolution of Plaid's payments operations, setting the standard for reliability, reconciliation, and network performance.
• Balance growth and risk. Oversee ACH operations and customer oversight, driving both compliance and scale across Plaid's payments ecosystem.
• Build trusted infrastructure. Partner with Engineering and Operations to deliver systems that are resilient, transparent, and insight-driven.
• Represent Plaid externally. Act as a thought leader in the future of open, real-time payments and modern financial infrastructure.
• Lead with ownership. Operate with urgency, creativity, and accountability, modeling Plaid's ownership mindset across product and operations.

Qualifications:

• 12+ years of experience, including 8+ in product management or equivalent founder/operator roles
• Proven success building and scaling payments or financial infrastructure products with complex regulatory or operational components
• Experience leading payments operations and balancing speed, compliance, and reliability at scale
• Strong understanding of payment risk, reconciliation, and network performance in financial systems
• Exceptional mix of strategic vision and executional depth; able to set direction while managing day-to-day operational realities
• Track record of influencing cross-functional teams across engineering, operations, risk, and go-to-market
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills across technical and executive audiences
• Familiarity with real-time payment systems (RTP, FedNow), open banking, or developer-focused APIs is a plus

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Key responsibilities include:

• Sales Enablement: Equip partner GTM teams with the training, content, and tools they need to effectively pitch and sell Plaid , including onboarding, ongoing education, and a library of sales assets like pitch decks and battle cards

• Pipeline Development: Collaborate with partner sales teams to drive pipeline growth through targeted campaigns, outbound strategies, and co-selling support, while maintaining visibility into partner-sourced and influenced opportunities

• Channel Management: Serve as the connective tissue between Plaid and its partner ecosystem , minimizing channel conflict, facilitating communication, and ensuring deal velocity is maintained across all partner relationships

• Strategic Insights & Feedback: Act as the voice of the partner internally, surfacing patterns in objections, competitive dynamics, and product gaps to key stakeholders across Product, Marketing, and GTM teams

To succeed in this role, you'll need:

• 4 years of experience in inside sales, SDR/BDR, partnerships, sales enablement, or a related GTM role , fintech or financial services experience is a plus

• Early track record of contributing to pipeline or revenue in a team-oriented sales environment

• Strong written communication skills with an ability to translate product and technical concepts into clear, compelling narratives for sales audiences

• Organized and detail-oriented , comfortable managing multiple workstreams, maintaining CRM hygiene, and producing accurate pipeline reports

• Comfortable facilitating training sessions or enablement presentations in front of partner teams

• Collaborative and eager to learn , comfortable supporting senior teammates while also taking ownership of defined work independently

• Familiarity with the open banking, financial data, or payments ecosystem is a plus, but not required

• Working knowledge of APIs or a curiosity to understand how Plaid works under the hood

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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 Fintech Sales team is responsible for our relationships with some of the most important and fastest-growing companies in financial services. Many of these companies have long-standing relationships with Plaid, and this team's mandate is to deepen those partnerships , expanding product adoption, enabling customer growth, and ensuring Plaid remains the infrastructure provider of choice as these customers scale.

You will lead an established, high-performing team of Named Account Executives who manage Plaid's largest fintech accounts. This is not a greenfield build , it's a team with real momentum, strong customer relationships, and meaningful revenue. The opportunity is to raise the bar further: strengthen Plaid's market-leading position in fintech by driving deeper product adoption across existing accounts, winning strategic new logos, and developing the AEs on your team into consistently elite performers.

The primary motion is expansion. The majority of your AEs' accounts already use Plaid , the job is to grow those relationships through new products, new use cases, and new business units, while also adding competitive new logos to the book. You'll be in deals with your team as a coach and escalation point, helping AEs navigate multi-stakeholder cycles from technical champion to economic buyer, without taking ownership away from them.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of 6–8 Named Account Executives focused on Plaid's largest fintech accounts, driving growth through expansion of existing relationships and competitive new logo acquisition.

• Coach AEs to identify and drive expansion opportunities proactively , new products, new use cases, new business units , rather than waiting for inbound signals.

• Build and refine the account strategy for Plaid's top fintech customers alongside your AEs, including executive value messaging, pitch positioning, and coordinated go-to-market efforts with Marketing.

• Grow existing accounts by driving multi-product adoption and deepening executive-level relationships.

• Attain consumption-based revenue targets through a disciplined, data-driven pipeline operating rhythm.

• Develop your team through structured 1:1s, deal reviews, and skill-specific coaching that closes the gap between strong performers and elite ones.

• Maintain a high recruiting bar , assess and close exceptional AE talent as the team grows, selecting for people who thrive in an expansion-oriented selling motion.

• Manage performance with transparency , set clear expectations, act early when someone isn't tracking, and make tough calls when necessary.

• Collaborate closely with Marketing, Product, Account Management, Legal, and Commercial teams to maintain a consistently high win rate and remove friction from deal cycles.

• Engage directly in strategic deals as a coach and escalation point, while ensuring your AEs retain ownership and develop their own executive-level selling capabilities.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of sales experience in B2B SaaS or platform/infrastructure sales, with meaningful exposure to fintech, payments, or financial services.

• 5+ years of frontline sales management experience leading teams of quota-carrying AEs.

• Demonstrated track record of coaching account executives to close and grow accounts in the $100K–$1M+ ARR range, with specific experience in expansion and land-and-expand motions.

• Experience leading a team oriented around named accounts or industry verticals , not just geographic territories.

• Strong data discipline , you use pipeline and forecast data to change what your team does, not just report it upward.

• Proven ability to operate cross-functionally, influencing product, legal, and marketing without positional authority.

• Outstanding communication and executive presence, with experience managing the sales cycle from technical champion to C-suite economic buyer.

• A coaching-first leadership style , you develop your people through the deals, not by taking the deals away from them.

Nice to Have

• Experience selling API-first or developer-focused products.

• Familiarity with consumption-based or usage-based pricing models.

• Background in open banking, identity verification, payments, or adjacent fintech infrastructure.

• Experience managing hybrid or distributed teams across multiple offices.

Additional Information

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!

Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com. Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.

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