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title: 'Senior Payment Risk Analyst at Polymarket'
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# Senior Payment Risk Analyst at Polymarket

- **Company:** Polymarket
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-08-11
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket/62e81b7f-d045-495b-9f36-0c91392870f3

## 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, 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 operates as a CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange, which means money movement is not a back-office function. It is core infrastructure. Deposits, withdrawals, and settlement payouts happen at high volume and accelerate dramatically around major real-world events. The Senior Payment Risk Analyst role exists to own the risk posture around all of it: how money gets onto the platform, how it moves across it, and how it leaves.

This is a senior / contributor role on the Payments Risk team within the US Exchange. You will sit at the intersection of fraud operations, payment rail mechanics, and regulatory compliance. Day to day, that means investigating live cases, monitoring transaction data, writing and tuning fraud rules, and maintaining the banking, card network, and processor relationships that depend on us keeping our house in order. You will work closely with Compliance, Engineering, Legal and InfoSec. When you identify a control gap, you are expected to close it, not just document it.

The challenge here is real. Payment volumes can spike by an order of magnitude in hours when a major market goes live. Fraud patterns shift fast. Regulatory expectations are high and still evolving. If you want a role where the risk environment is stable and well-understood, this is not it. If you want to build the payment risk function at a company that is redefining how people engage with information and markets, read on.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

- Investigate live payment fraud cases across deposits, withdrawals, and settlement payouts, making timely decisions on holds, reversals, and account actions.
- Monitor transaction data for anomalies tied to high-volume market events, distinguishing normal volume spikes from genuine abuse signals.
- Write and tune fraud detection rules in response to emerging patterns, using transaction data to set thresholds you can defend quantitatively.
- Identify control gaps across the full payment stack, then work directly with Engineering, Compliance and InfoSec to get those gaps closed.
- Own relationships with payment processors, card networks, and banking partners on risk-related matters, including chargeback disputes, ratio management, and compliance inquiries.
- Produce clear, well-reasoned risk memos and committee-level reporting that translate payment risk findings into decisions for non-risk stakeholders.
- Maintain and improve the team's core fraud and payment risk documentation, including policies, runbooks, and week-over-week metric tracking.

## WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

- 8 or more years of hands-on experience in payments risk, fraud risk, or transaction monitoring at a fintech, exchange, payments company, bank, or comparable regulated financial services business.
- Direct experience with ACH, wire, card networks (Visa and Mastercard), and at least one real-time payment rail (RTP or FedNow), including their dispute mechanics, chargeback rules, and associated fraud patterns.
- Working knowledge of BSA/AML fundamentals and how payments risk and AML risk overlap, including SAR filing, structuring detection, and transaction monitoring systems.
- Demonstrated experience setting quantitative risk thresholds, such as velocity limits and chargeback ratios, and defending those decisions to internal stakeholders, processors, banks, and card networks.
- Strong written communication skills. This role produces risk memos and reporting for senior stakeholders on a regular basis. You need to write clearly and argue a position well.
- Experience auditing a payment stack end to end, identifying where controls are missing or miscalibrated, and building the case for what needs to change.
- (Plus) Familiarity with CFTC-regulated environments or other derivatives/exchange contexts.
- (Plus) Experience working in a high-growth environment where payment volumes scale quickly and the risk surface changes fast.
- (Plus) Exposure to crypto or blockchain-adjacent payment flows.

## 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 $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. [jobs.ashbyhq.com (open roles)](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket)

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