VP of Product

Polymarket Polymarket · Fintech · New York, NY · Product

VP of Product at Polymarket, a prediction market platform. This role involves defining product vision, building the product team, and shaping user experience. Responsibilities include leading product strategy, owning product development end-to-end, building and leading the product team, collaborating cross-functionally, and developing user/market insights. Requires 10+ years of product experience, ideally in early-stage/high-growth startups, with a track record in consumer/fintech products. Bonus for finance, markets, crypto, or DeFi experience.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead product strategy and vision. Define a clear, compelling product direction aligned with Polymarket's growth ambitions. Translate business goals into a prioritized, outcome-driven roadmap. Communicate direction clearly across the company.
  2. Own product end-to-end. Drive product development across core experiences - trading flows, onboarding, discovery, growth surfaces, and new product ideas. Own the full lifecycle from concept through launch and iteration, maintaining a high bar for clarity, usability, and speed.
  3. Build and lead the product team. Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Product Managers. Build a culture of strong craft, fast iteration, and rigorous thinking about user problems and business outcomes.
  4. Collaborate cross-functionally. Partner deeply with engineering, design, data, CX, and leadership to shape the roadmap and ship best-in-class products. Serve as connective tissue between strategy and execution.
  5. Develop deep user and market insight. Build real intuition for Polymarket users - traders, news readers, power users, and newcomers alike. Use qualitative and quantitative research to inform decisions and build conviction.

Skills

Required

  • 10+ years of product experience
  • significant time leading product at early-stage or high-growth startups
  • worked on or led category-defining products
  • track record of building exceptional consumer and/or fintech products at fast-moving companies
  • highly product-minded
  • meticulous about execution
  • obsessed with clarity, simplicity, and user trust
  • technical enough to go deep with engineers
  • opinionated enough to push back on scope creep
  • experience scaling product functions
  • talent magnet: you love hiring, mentoring, and building great teams
  • have a roster of people who'd want to work with you again

Nice to have

  • experience with finance, markets, trading products, crypto, or DeFi
  • deep curiosity about prediction markets, incentives, and the future of truth

What the JD emphasized

  • define the product vision
  • build the product team
  • shape how millions of people experience prediction markets
  • thrives in ambiguity
  • builds conviction from first principles
  • turn bold ideas into shipped products
  • strategy and roadmap through execution, hiring, and iteration
  • product strategy and vision
  • outcome-driven roadmap
  • own product end-to-end
  • drive product development across core experiences
  • build and lead the product team
  • hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Product Managers
  • build a culture of strong craft, fast iteration, and rigorous thinking
  • collaborate cross-functionally
  • develop deep user and market insight
  • qualitative and quantitative research
  • 10+ years of product experience
  • leading product at early-stage or high-growth startups
  • category-defining products
  • building exceptional consumer and/or fintech products
  • meticulous about execution
  • obsessed with clarity, simplicity, and user trust
  • technical enough to go deep with engineers
  • opinionated enough to push back on scope creep
  • scaling product functions
  • talent magnet