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# Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Institutional at Polymarket

- **Company:** Polymarket
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-12
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-18
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket/4bcdc897-3126-4d8e-ba8a-d398255cad6e

## Job description

## About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world's fastest growing prediction market. 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 ($115B traded to date) 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 Senior Data Scientist / Analyst to own the analytics behind our institutional relationships — the market makers, large takers, and brokerages that account for a disproportionate share of platform volume. You'll be the person who understands each of these counterparties in depth: how they trade, how they make money with us, and whether the relationship is getting healthier or weaker. This is a role for someone comfortable on both sides of the conversation — rigorous enough to analyze flow at the order level, and commercial enough to sit in a partner review and explain what the numbers mean for the terms of the relationship. And you'll do it in a fast-moving environment where the institutional side of the business is being built as you go.

## What You'll Do

- Own the analytics on our largest makers, takers, and brokerages, and be the internal source of truth on how each relationship is performing
- Build the account-level view of every major counterparty — volume, flow composition, spread capture, fee and rebate economics, and how each has trended over time
- Monitor counterparty health and surface concentration risk, deteriorating engagement, or churn signals early enough for the team to act on them
- Analyze trading behavior to understand how each participant actually makes money on our platform, and whether the terms we have given them still make sense
- Support the institutional team through reviews and negotiations with the analysis behind them — what a counterparty is worth, what they are asking for, and what we should be willing to give
- Quantify how institutional flow affects the broader market, including liquidity, spreads, and the experience of retail traders on the other side of it
- Work with analytics engineers to turn recurring relationship reporting into modeled datasets, so account reviews do not start from scratch every quarter
- Own documentation end-to-end — writing clearly and thoroughly enough that anyone on the team can pick up your analysis without friction

## What We're Looking For

- 7+ years in analytics, trading, or counterparty analysis, ideally at an exchange, trading venue, brokerage, or market making firm
- Expert SQL — you can work directly against order book and transaction-level data without supervision
- Deep understanding of how professional participants make money — spread capture, adverse selection, inventory risk, and the economics of providing liquidity
- Credibility in a technical conversation with a sophisticated counterparty — you can hold your own with a firm's own quants
- Commercial instinct — you can look at a relationship and articulate what it is worth to us and where the leverage sits
- Strong communication and discretion, including with sensitive counterparty information and in front of external partners
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where business logic changes frequently and you need to keep pace
- (Plus) Experience with institutional pricing, fee tiers, or rebate program design
- (Plus) Familiarity with on-chain data or blockchain analytics
- (Plus) Python or R for deeper statistical work on trading behavior
- (Plus) Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products

## 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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