--- title: 'Growth Lead, Football at Polymarket' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/growth-lead-football-polymarket-new-york-w6sazxjz3jwr' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-20' --- # Growth Lead, Football 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/c0b6b47c-38a8-4253-af9a-45f9099c7d0b ## 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 Sports is one of the biggest opportunities in front of Polymarket right now. The Growth team is small, moves fast, and operates with direct accountability to outcomes. This role sits at the center of that, working alongside the Senior GM to own the end-to-end go-to-market motion for NFL and CFB — our highest-priority verticals this year. The mandate is execution: owning the plan, running the operating cadence, tracking what's working, and making clear calls on where to invest and where to stop. This is not a role where you manage up and wait for direction. The gap right now is not ideas — it is operational rigor and speed. NFL season does not wait. We need someone who can get up to speed in weeks, build the reporting and coordination infrastructure that does not yet exist, and immediately make the team faster and sharper. ## What You'll Do - Own the NFL and CFB GTM plan end-to-end, updating it weekly across all active workstreams and keeping every function aligned on priorities and deadlines - Run cross-functional syncs across marketing, product, partnerships, and operations, surfacing blockers early and driving decisions before they become delays - Track KPIs and spend on a daily basis, flagging variances against plan and bringing specific recommendations to the Senior GM on where to adjust - Build and maintain P&L visibility for NFL and CFB GTM, including spend pacing, channel-level performance, and return on investment by initiative - Translate performance data into clear invest, cut, or pivot recommendations — with the analysis to back them up and the judgment to know when to move fast - Maintain the growth experimentation backlog, document tested hypotheses, and ensure learnings are captured in a way the team can actually use - Identify the highest-priority gaps in execution week over week and take direct ownership of closing them, whether that means doing the work yourself or coordinating others to move faster ## What We're Looking For - 6+ years of experience running complex, multi-function GTM initiatives — not just executing within a single channel or team - Demonstrated P&L ownership with real accountability for spend decisions and performance outcomes, not just reporting on numbers someone else managed - Strong analytical skills with hands-on comfort in SQL or an equivalent data tool — you pull your own data and build your own analysis - Proven ability to operate with speed and autonomy in high-ambiguity environments where the structure does not exist yet and you have to build it - Experience serving as the operational backbone of a cross-functional initiative, where your coordination directly unblocked execution and kept teams moving - Track record of taking at least two acquisition or retention channels from early experiment to a documented, repeatable program with measurable user or revenue impact - (Plus) Experience in sports, fantasy sports, or sports betting, with real familiarity with how these audiences think and behave - (Plus) Background in crypto, fintech, or prediction markets - (Plus) Built a growth experimentation system from scratch, including documentation, prioritization frameworks, and hypothesis tracking ## 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: $230,000 to $250,000 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. 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