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# Head of Early Career Recruiting at Polymarket

- **Company:** Polymarket
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-09-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket/a6ca02f7-8861-4e30-a693-029df490b5dc

## 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 is looking for a Head of Early Career Recruiting to build our university recruiting and internship programs from the ground up. You’ll own our strategy for attracting exceptional early-career talent across engineering, product, design, and business functions — from our presence on campus through internship and full-time conversion.

This is a high-ownership, highly visible role. You’ll build the systems, experiences, and team needed to make Polymarket a standout destination for exceptional early-career talent. You’ll combine strong operational rigor with creativity and cultural fluency to figure out how Polymarket should show up on campus.

## WHAT YOU’LL DO

- Own our campus recruiting strategy — build a year-round plan for target schools, hackathons, career fairs, partnerships, and other early-talent channels, including budget, staffing, travel, and ROI
- Build Polymarket’s campus presence — create a distinctive, repeatable playbook for how we show up on campus, from event strategy and activations to candidate capture and follow-up
- Launch and run our internship program — build a structured, high-quality experience from recruiting through onboarding, programming, manager enablement, and full-time conversion
- Build the recruiting infrastructure — design scalable application, assessment, screening, and interview workflows that surface the strongest candidates and make it easy for hiring teams to engage them
- Partner with senior leaders and hiring managers across engineering, product, design, legal, finance, marketing, and other functions to plan headcount, define hiring needs, and build effective early-career pipelines
- Build and lead the team — hire and manage a small early-career recruiting team as the program scales, while setting the operating standards and culture for the function
- Represent Polymarket externally — bring the right engineers, product leaders, designers, and business leaders into our campus strategy and build relationships with students, faculty, and university communities
- Use data and judgment to iterate — measure pipeline quality, conversion, event ROI, and program performance to continuously improve our approach

## WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- 5–10+ years of experience building or scaling campus recruiting, university talent, early-career, or similarly complex talent programs
- Track record of building systems and programs from the ground up — you’re as comfortable designing the infrastructure as you are executing against it
- Exceptional operational rigor and project management skills, with the ability to own a large budget, coordinate many moving pieces, and move quickly
- Strong executive presence and communication skills — you’re comfortable representing Polymarket externally and influencing senior stakeholders internally
- Cultural fluency and strong taste — you know how to create campus experiences that feel relevant, energetic, and distinctly Polymarket
- Ability to work across technical and business functions without needing to be the subject-matter expert for every role
- A builder’s mindset — you thrive in ambiguity, take ownership, and aren’t afraid to experiment and iterate
- Experience with hackathons, technical talent communities, or other creative university recruiting channels is a plus
- Experience at a startup, high-growth technology company, or consulting/strategy environment is a plus

## 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: $200,000 to $300,000 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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