Market Operations Analyst

Polymarket Polymarket · Fintech · New York, NY · Markets

This role focuses on shaping, curating, and safeguarding prediction markets by deciding what topics to cover, crafting rulesets, prioritizing new markets, and ensuring market clarity and fairness. It involves monitoring trends, auditing resolutions, and building scalable market categories and playbooks. The role requires a strong analytical and editorial mind, exceptional technical writing skills, and market intuition, with bonus points for forecasting fluency and experience in related fields.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own coverage: Ensure we’re covering the right topics at the right time across politics, crypto, sports, current events, and culture.
  2. Invent rulesets: Draft precise, innovative criteria for new market types and edge-case scenarios.
  3. Prioritize new markets: Decide what to launch and when to maximize relevance and engagement.
  4. Curate & clarify: Continuously tighten wording on live markets and publish clarifications.
  5. Audit resolutions: Review resolved markets for consistency, source integrity, and adherence to rule spirit.

Skills

Required

  • Sharp legal/analytical mind
  • Strong editorial taste
  • Exceptional technical writing
  • Market intuition
  • High agency
  • Data & process rigor
  • Fast decision-making

Nice to have

  • Experience in prediction markets, sports-book operations, compliance, or exchange rulebooks.
  • Background in law, risk, journalism, or dispute resolution.
  • Product instinct
  • Ability to script or automate QA tools (SQL, Python, etc.).
  • Networked in key verticals (sports, politics, crypto, etc.).
  • Personal trading or market-making history on Polymarket or similar platforms.
  • Prior startup or high-agency team experience.
  • Forecasting fluency

What the JD emphasized

  • precise and innovative rulesets
  • clear, fair, and dispute-proof
  • timely, relevant, and high-quality
  • bulletproof rules
  • spot loopholes before they’re problems
  • airtight wording
  • Clear, neutral, and unambiguous prose—no wiggle room
  • compliance risk