Staff Data Analyst

Polymarket Polymarket · Fintech · New York, NY · Operations

Staff Data Analyst role at Polymarket, a prediction market platform. The role focuses on owning the analytical infrastructure for business performance, including growth, liquidity, revenue, and retention. Responsibilities include executive reporting, KPI frameworks, dashboard building, deep-dive analyses, forecasting, and partnering with various teams. Requires strong SQL, experience with business-wide reporting, and understanding of business fundamentals. Experience in crypto or fintech is a plus.

What you'd actually do

  1. Own executive and board-level reporting, including business reviews, KPI dashboards, and recurring performance summaries that give leadership a reliable source of truth on growth, volume, revenue, and retention
  2. Monitor business performance daily and proactively surface trends, anomalies, and risks before leadership has to ask — with clear context on what's driving them and what to do about it
  3. Run deep-dive analyses on user behavior, trading activity, market performance, and revenue drivers to identify what's working, what isn't, and where the biggest opportunities are
  4. Evaluate the impact of product launches, pricing changes, marketing campaigns, and liquidity programs on key business outcomes, and translate results into clear recommendations
  5. Build forecasting models and scenario analyses to support planning cycles, investment decisions, and resource allocation across the business

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of experience in data analysis or business intelligence
  • Strong SQL skills
  • Experience owning business-wide reporting and KPI frameworks
  • Solid understanding of core business fundamentals — acquisition, retention, order size, monetization
  • Ability to communicate findings clearly and concisely to executives

Nice to have

  • Experience in crypto, prediction markets, or another data-intensive financial product

What the JD emphasized

  • High attention to detail — you check your work, and then you check it again, because you know that a number error in a board deck has consequences