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title: 'GRC & Privacy Lead at Polymarket'
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# GRC & Privacy Lead at Polymarket

- **Company:** Polymarket
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-16
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-20
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket/b77585e9-83fb-4538-8e51-dc3cba1e8d36

## Job description

## About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future. We're growing fast — both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.

## About the Role

Polymarket's IT and Security team is small, senior, and expected to move fast. This role sits at the intersection of third-party risk, audit execution, and privacy operations — and the person in it will own all three. DSARs need to be processed, vendors need risk dispositions before they get access to our systems, and PIAs need to happen before engineering ships, not after. This is a senior IC role. You'll make judgment calls independently, build processes that didn't exist before you arrived, and leave behind documentation the team can actually use. We have active audit work underway, a vendor pipeline that needs rigorous day-to-day management, and privacy obligations spanning GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, BIPA, CUBI, and the specific data flows that come with KYC and identity verification at scale.

## What You'll Do

- Triage vendor intake requests daily, assess inherent risk based on data sensitivity and system connectivity, and route appropriately — including flagging vendors that require PIAs or DPA review before onboarding
- Analyze vendor assurance documentation — SOC 2 reports, ISO certifications, PCI AOCs, and penetration test summaries — and produce clear written risk memos with defensible dispositions
- Gather and organize evidence for our active SOC 2 Type II engagement, coordinate with control owners to close requests on time, and manage submissions through the auditor portal from start to finish
- Process DSAR requests across multiple corporate entities, applying correct retention exemptions and routing logic, and track fulfillment to meet statutory deadlines
- Run privacy impact assessments for new product features and vendor onboarding, working directly with product and engineering to identify risks before they ship
- Maintain the policy library, track review and acknowledgment cycles, and own remediation tracking for vendor and audit findings through to resolution
- Help implement and operationalize our privacy compliance platform, including building out the data inventory and mapping flows that reflect how we actually collect and process personal data

## What We're Looking For

- Hands-on SOC 2 Type II audit experience — you have personally gathered evidence, coordinated with control owners, and managed auditor requests through a full engagement cycle
- Demonstrated experience conducting third-party vendor risk assessments, including reading and interpreting SOC 2 reports, PCI AOCs, and pen test summaries, and writing risk memos with clear dispositions
- Working knowledge of GDPR, CCPA/CPRA, BIPA, and CUBI, and the ability to translate those obligations into concrete process steps that product and engineering teams can follow
- Experience building compliance or privacy processes from scratch, not just inheriting and maintaining them
- Comfort operating independently, triaging ambiguous situations, and making defensible decisions without waiting for escalation on routine assessments
- (Plus) Experience with PCI DSS scoping or self-assessment activities
- (Plus) Familiarity with KYC and identity verification data flows and the privacy considerations specific to biometric and identity data
- (Plus) Prior experience at a crypto, fintech, or prediction market company

## Benefits

- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

Pay Transparency Base salary range: $150,000 to $200,000 annually, plus equity and benefits. This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.

## About Polymarket

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform, enabling users to trade on the outcomes of real-world events to surface a crowd‑driven signal of what people actually believe will happen.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multiple funding rounds; latest $2B corporate round led by Intercontinental Exchange in November 2025)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Prediction markets / Information markets / Financial technology
- **Target customers**: B2C (30 million monthly visitors) and B2B (institutional investors, media, financial firms using data for research and hedging)
- **Mission or purpose**: “Become the new front page of the internet” and “Define the coming era of finance” by rewarding conviction and bringing private insight to life in the public forum [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)

## Products & Services
- **Polymarket Platform (Prediction Markets)**: A decentralized platform where users trade on the probabilities of future events across politics, geopolitics, business, culture, and breaking news. Real‑time, crowd‑driven forecasts often more accurate than polling. [polymarket.com](https://polymarket.com/)
- **Event‑Data Feeds**: Aggregated market probabilities distributed via partnerships with X, Substack, Yahoo Finance, and other media to provide “the true signal in world events.” [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)
- **Institutional & Media Solutions**: Partnerships with Dow Jones (official information market for WSJ, Barron’s, MarketWatch) and Intercontinental Exchange (owner of NYSE) to distribute event‑driven data to global markets and power next‑generation hedging strategies. [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed; total funding exceeds $2.87B (see below)
- **Key Metric**:
  - **Annual Revenue**: $17.9M (as reported by LinkedIn)
  - **Total Funding**: $2.874B (including a $2B corporate round from Intercontinental Exchange in November 2025, a $45M Series B led by Founders Fund in May 2024, and earlier rounds)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
  - Intercontinental Exchange (lead in 2025 corporate round)
  - Founders Fund (lead in Series B)
  - Dow Jones (official data partnership)
  - Key acquisitions: QCEX ($112M), Brahma, Dome
- **Growth Signals**:
  - Monthly visitors: ~45 million (global rank #816, traffic up +373% year‑over‑year)
  - Headcount: 201 employees (+775% YoY)
  - Active job postings: 42 (monthly +44.8%, yearly +1300%)
  - Expanded to 20 countries; offices in New York, United States (HQ), plus remote presence

## Competitive Advantages
- **First‑mover and market dominance** in prediction markets with the deepest liquidity and widest event coverage.
- **Institutional credibility** through partnerships with Intercontinental Exchange (NYSE owner) and Dow Jones – an unmatched bridge between retail prediction markets and traditional finance.
- **Real‑time, crowd‑sourced accuracy** that is often faster and more reliable than polls or experts, attracting both retail users and institutional clients.
- **Network effects**: 30M monthly visitors provide the liquidity that makes the platform useful; data feeds are increasingly embedded in major media and financial platforms.

## Strategic Focus
- **Institutional expansion**: Leveraging partnerships with ICE and Dow Jones to integrate Polymarket data into financial research, hedging, and media.
- **Becoming the “front page of the internet”** – making market probabilities the default way to understand any breaking news event.
- **Defining the next era of finance** by merging real‑time information markets with traditional financial instruments.
- **Talent acquisition**: Actively hiring quantitative traders, data analysts, derivatives experts, AML compliance officers, and engineering roles to scale platform, security, and institutional support. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket)

## Why Work Here
- **High‑growth environment**: 775% headcount growth in the past year; massive traffic scaling and institutional adoption create exciting challenges.
- **Mission‑driven culture**: Build the “information market” that cuts through noise and empowers better decision‑making – a blend of finance, tech, and media.
- **Engineering & data focus**: Tech stack includes blockchain, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, Terraform, Python, and JavaScript; roles span application security, AI ops, data engineering, and Android development.
- **Remote & office flexibility**: Headquarters in New York, NY; operates in 20 countries. Hybrid/remote policy not specified but international presence suggests flexibility.
- **Compensation & culture**: Employer rating 4.3/5 (perfect scores for work‑life, compensation, culture, career). Senior Accounting Manager salary listed at $225k–$240k (New York). [indeed.com](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Polymarket)
- **Notable perks / engineering culture**: Emphasis on decentralized finance, open‑source principles, and “rewarding conviction” – a fast‑paced, intellectually stimulating environment.

## Sources
1. [careers.polymarket.com](https://careers.polymarket.com/)
2. [polymarket.com](https://polymarket.com/)
3. [linkedin.com (company profile)](https://www.linkedin.com/company/polymarket/jobs)
4. [indeed.com (salary data)](https://www.indeed.com/cmp/Polymarket)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com (open roles)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket)

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