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Fraud Intelligence Lead
Plaid INC · 🇺🇸 New York City Office; San Francisco HQ
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One solid signal, not two — worth applying, and worth asking about sponsorship early.
- Employer is on a government sponsor recordThe US Department of Labor certified 27 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
- The posting doesn’t mention sponsorshipSilence isn’t a refusal — ask the recruiter before investing much time.
- No salary bar for this routeH-1B has no fixed salary bar: the employer must pay at least the prevailing wage for the role and area. Cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level. Source: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/12/29/2025-23853/weighted-selection-process-for-registrants-and-petitioners-seeking-to-file-cap-subject-h-1b, rules effective 2026-02-27.
- Confirmed live todayWhen a source last listed this job as open.
US H-1B: cap-subject employers enter a lottery weighted by wage level — Level I gets 1 entry, Level IV gets 4 (DHS projected selection odds ≈15% at Level I to ≈61% at Level IV). Universities and non-profit research employers are cap-exempt. The $100,000 fee for new petitions from abroad is currently blocked by a court order (appeal pending).
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The US Department of Labor certified 27 H-1B/E-3 labor condition applications for this employer between Oct 2025 and Jun 2026 (latest Jun 2026) — the step every H-1B hire needs first. USCIS also records 9 H-1B approvals in FY2023. Source: LCA disclosure data (US Department of Labor (OFLC)).
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About the role
We believe that the way people interact with their finances will drastically improve in the next few years. We’re dedicated to empowering this transformation by building the tools and experiences that thousands of developers use to create their own products. 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, Seattle, Washington D.C., Raleigh, London, and Amsterdam. Our Fraud Intelligence team's mission is to turn fraud signals into insight that our EPD teams transform into improvements across Protect, IDV, Signal, and Guaranteed Payments. We believe transaction patterns, device signals, identity linkages, and behavioral data are dramatically underleveraged tools in fraud prevention, and we ground our products in what adversaries are actually doing right now. As the Fraud Intelligence Lead, you will build and run a small, high-leverage team of Fraud Intelligence Analysts (and eventually a Staff Researcher) responsible for live casework across Protect, IDV, and Payments/ACH. You'll operate as a player-coach, hiring and coaching your team while staying close enough to the work to personally pick up casework and SEV response when needed. RESPONSIBILITIES Team Building & People Leadership - Set the casework quality bar: define what rigorous investigation, triage, and reporting look like for the team - Coach analysts on investigation technique, pattern synthesis, and translating findings into product/model input Operating Model & Cross-PA Partnership - Own coverage allocation across the Protect/IDV and Payments/ACH pods, including flexing assignments as volume shifts - Manage matrixed staffing and time allocation clearly between the Fraud PA and Payments PA - Represent the Fraud Intelligence team in product and model roadmap discussions, translating casework patterns into strategic priorities Reporting & Escalation - Report team health, casework trends, and emerging risks to the Head of Fraud - Own escalation paths for SEVs and incidents requiring legal, law enforcement, or regulatory involvement Live Fraud Investigation & Reconstruction - Lead investigations into complex fraud cases across identities, accounts, devices, and transaction surfaces - Provide support to day-to-day fraud operations including SEVs and alert triage - Reconstruct attacker sequences and hypothesize actor intent and tooling - Distill patterns from noisy signals into clear narratives and actionable insights - Bridge investigation outcomes to product and model improvements Product & Model Partnership - Collaborate with Data Science, ML/AI, and Product teams to improve labeling, feature sets, evaluation frameworks, and model decay monitoring - Surface data quality limitations and systematically formalize missing features - Translate exploratory research into reusable feature pipelines, model inputs, or rule augmentations - Participate in product discovery, roadmap planning, and post-launch evaluation to ensure fraud-awareness by design Ecosystem Monitoring & Knowledge Leadership - Continuously survey external fraud trends, adversary techniques, tooling, and emerging threat vectors - Proactively perform threat modeling of abuse surfaces and initiate research proposals when patterns emerge QUALIFICATIONS - 5+ years of applied fraud experience in a high-velocity environment (fintec