Director of Data Analytics, Prediction Markets Platform
Overview
You will own analytics strategy and execution at Polymarket, the world's fastest growing prediction market platform, with $115B in trading volume to date. You'll lead an embedded team of analysts and data scientists across growth, product, markets, finance, risk, and institutional, driving data-informed decisions that shape the company's direction. This is a hands-on leadership role where you'll set the analytical standard, build a high-performing team, and partner directly with executives. The opportunity is unique: you'll build a function that powers a marketplace redefining how the world forecasts events.
What You'll Do8
- 1Lead, hire, and develop a team of embedded analysts and data scientists across growth, product, markets, finance, risk, and institutional.
- 2Own the analytical standard including what makes an analysis rigorous, decision-ready, and honest about its assumptions.
- 3Partner with business leaders to set each function's analytical agenda, focusing on high-impact questions.
- 4Protect the embedded model so analysts own outcomes inside their teams, not just ticket queues.
- 5Build shared craft across a distributed team through review practices, experimentation standards, and reusable methods.
- 6Partner with data platform leadership on the metrics layer to keep definitions consistent and graduate recurring analyses into modeled datasets.
- 7Own the analytics the leadership sees, including company-level reporting and board and investor numbers.
- 8Develop analysts into senior individual contributors and future leads, and provide direct feedback on performance.
Requirements11
- 110+ years in analytics or data science, including 4+ years managing analysts or scientists.
- 2Expert SQL and enough statistical grounding to review experiment design or causal claims and spot flaws.
- 3Experience running an embedded or matrixed analytics team with a clear point of view on where that model breaks down.
- 4Credibility with senior stakeholders, able to push back on executives with evidence while maintaining relationships.
- 5Track record of developing analysts, including promoting top performers and managing others out when necessary.
- 6Strong prioritization instincts across functions with genuinely competing demands.
- 7Hiring track record, having built a team from scratch or expanded it significantly.
- 8Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment where business logic changes frequently.
- 9Plus: Data science depth in experimentation design, causal inference, or predictive modeling.
- 10Plus: Experience in a marketplace, exchange, or trading business where analytics sits close to economics.
- 11Plus: Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or data-intensive financial products.
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