--- title: 'User Acquisition Lead at Polymarket' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/user-acquisition-lead-polymarket-new-york-w5pe0z98g6vr' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-25' --- # User Acquisition Lead at Polymarket - **Company:** Polymarket - **Location:** New York, NY - **Compensation:** $250k–$280k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-10-19 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-25 - **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/polymarket/b22c4407-cf20-46a4-a3e7-dc370023f7e9 ## 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 growing fast, and user acquisition is one of the most important levers we have. This role leads the team responsible for bringing new users onto the platform through paid and owned channels, from search and social to influencer partnerships and beyond. You'll manage a small but growing team of channel specialists and work closely with product, data, and brand to build acquisition programs that actually scale. The mandate is straightforward: grow the number of people who sign up, deposit, and trade on Polymarket. That means owning the full funnel from first impression to first trade, setting channel strategy, managing budget, and holding the team accountable to results. We're not looking for someone to run campaigns on autopilot. The prediction market category is still being defined, and the person in this role will have to figure out how to explain a new kind of product to a broad audience while also finding the pockets of high-intent users who are ready to trade today. ## What You'll Do - Own the user acquisition strategy across paid social, paid search, influencer, referral, and emerging channels, setting priorities and allocating budget based on performance data. - Manage and develop a team of channel managers, running weekly reviews, setting clear goals, and making sure work is moving at the right pace and quality. - Build and maintain a testing roadmap across creative, audience, landing page, and offer variables, turning experiment results into durable channel improvements. - Partner with the data team to define acquisition metrics, build reporting infrastructure, and make sure the team is making decisions based on accurate attribution. - Work with brand and creative to produce ad content that explains Polymarket clearly and converts, giving specific, actionable feedback on what is and isn't working. - Identify and develop non-traditional acquisition channels suited to Polymarket's regulatory environment and user base, including media partnerships, community programs, and event-based activations. - Report acquisition performance to leadership on a regular cadence, translating channel data into clear business implications and concrete next steps. ## What We're Looking For - 8 or more years of experience in user acquisition or performance marketing, with at least 2 years managing a team directly. - Demonstrated track record of scaling paid acquisition programs with measurable CAC and LTV outcomes, not just impressions or clicks. - Deep hands-on experience with at least two of the following categories: Paid social, paid search, and programmatic advertising. - Strong analytical skills, including comfort with SQL or working closely with analysts to pull and interpret data without waiting on others. - Experience marketing a financial product, consumer app, or other category where trust and explanation are part of the conversion challenge. - Clear, direct communication style. You can write a tight brief, run a productive review meeting, and tell leadership something they don't want to hear. - (Plus) Experience in crypto, fintech, or another regulated consumer category where standard ad channels have restrictions. - (Plus) Familiarity with prediction markets, sports betting, or other probability-based products and their user bases. - (Plus) Experience building an acquisition function from an early stage, including standing up tooling, attribution models, and team processes. ## Benefits - Competitive salary & equity - Unlimited PTO - Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage - 401k match - Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories ## 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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