Product Manager - Data Supply Health and Traffic

New York City · 8+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 28, 2026

At a glance

As the Product Manager for Data Supply Health and Traffic, you will 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.

Define and own Plaid's strategy and roadmap for data-supply traffic, health, and cost efficiency.
Build and prioritize traffic-optimization initiatives, including opportunities created by evolving machine-learning models and strategic concessions negotiated with providers.
Serve as the bridge between Plaid's data-provider relationship teams and internal product teams, translating provider constraints into internal priorities and product demand into clear asks of providers.
Partner deeply with engineering and data teams to understand system behavior, evaluate technical trade-offs, and turn analysis into decisions.
Establish and track the core traffic and cost metrics needed to operate the area, identify risks, and measure progress.

8+ years of experience, including 5+ in product management or equivalent founder/operator roles.
Analytical rigor: You are comfortable working directly with data, cost models, and operational metrics to make and defend complex decisions.
Deep technical fluency: You can reason about large-scale systems, load management, API platforms, and machine-learning models and engage engineers as a close product partner.
Platform & systems thinking mindset: You think in systems, and design for reuse and the long term.
Leadership, stakeholder influence, and communication :You should be comfortable working cross-functionally (engineering, data, product) and influencing without direct authority.