Strategic Initiatives

Responsibilities:

- Work directly with leaders across Plaid on the company's most important and least-defined problems, particularly those at the seams of multiple teams or functions

- Identify unowned, high-leverage opportunities across the business and driving them to clean outcomes

- Operate across a wide aperture (strategy, GTM, operations, product, etc.) without being boxed into a single lane

- Lead (directly or indirectly) high performing teams

- Use AI tools and agents as a default part of how you work — not as an experiment, but as a force multiplier

Qualifications:

- 10+ years of total experience, with meaningful time in consulting as well as direct operating roles (BizOps, Strategy & Ops, Finance, Chief of Staff, etc.

- A track record of independently identifying problems and driving them to outcomes with limited top-down direction

- High agency, sense of ownership, and willingness to roll up your sleeves

- Ability to build relationships at all levels and drive cross-functional teams to action

- Strong analytical and structured-thinking skills; comfort translating ambiguity into frameworks, plans, and decisions

- Experience directly managing high-performing teams

- Familiarity with AI tools and agents to accelerate workflows is a plus

- Knowledge of SQL and Tableau preferred

- Experience in fintech, payments, or high-growth SaaS preferred