As a Consumer Compliance Analyst, you will handle escalated consumer complaints, analyze complaint trends, manage compliance reporting, and collaborate with stakeholders to enhance consumer experiences and maintain legal compliance.
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, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.
The Compliance team is responsible for ensuring Compliance at Plaid with all the laws and regulations that apply to us, as well as our internal policies. We help make sure Plaid stays within the bounds of our legal obligations, and partner with business stakeholders to build processes and systems to demonstrate our compliance.
As a Consumer Compliance Analyst, you'll be the front line of Plaid's consumer complaint program. You'll review escalated complaints, dig into the data to spot patterns and systemic issues, and work cross-functionally to drive fixes that improve the consumer experience. You'll own reporting to senior leadership, build relationships with compliance teams at Plaid's customers, and help calibrate our Consumer Support team to maintain quality and consistency. This role sits at the intersection of compliance, product, and operations — you'll need to be equal parts analytical, empathetic, and collaborative.
Responsibilities
- Review escalated consumer complaints, ensuring timely and accurate resolution with a consumer-first approach grounded in empathy and transparency
- Screen complaints for potential regulatory and legal risks and escalate as appropriate
Conduct quarterly sample testing of non-escalated consumer inquiries to verify correct categorization and handling by the Consumer Support team - Analyze complaint trends and root causes to identify systemic issues, partnering with product, engineering, operations, and legal to implement preventative solutions
- Prepare and deliver regular reporting on complaint performance, insights, and key metrics to senior leadership and stakeholders.Support quarterly complaint reporting to the Board's Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) and partner banks
- Build and maintain relationships with compliance counterparts at Plaid's customers
- Manage bi-weekly office hours for Consumer Support to address real-time compliance questions
- Run calibrations with the Consumer Support team to identify training gaps and ensure alignment with internal policies and procedures
Qualifications
- 4-6 years of experience in Compliance, Legal, Risk, or a related function in a regulatory or consumer-facing environment
- Experience in Fintech and consumer-focused financial products, preferred
- Deep understanding of consumer protection regulations and industry best practices (e.g., UDAAP, CCPA, GDPR, TILA, EFTA), preferred
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to prepare clear regulatory summaries and executive-level reporting
- Strategic mindset with the ability to balance compliance requirements, risk considerations, and consumer experience
- Proven ability to collaborate with technical teams, Marketing/Communications, Account Owners, and other cross-functional partners to advance compliance initiatives, communicate findings, and drive remediation efforts
- Strong analytical capabilities and problem-solving skills, including trend identification, root-cause analysis, and transforming data into actionable recommendations
- Self-motivated with a strong sense of ownership
- Experience building or improving complaint taxonomy/classification systems
- Experience working with partner banks or in a BaaS/program management model
- Experience with QA programs for consumer-facing support teams
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 [email protected]. Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.
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 [email protected].
Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.
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 [email protected].
Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice here.
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