Job Level
Mid-LevelSenior
Tech Stack
PythonSQL
About the role
- Own coverage: Ensure we’re covering the right topics at the right time across politics, crypto, sports, current events, and culture
- Invent rulesets: Draft precise, innovative criteria for new market types and edge-case scenarios
- Prioritize new markets: Decide what to launch and when to maximize relevance and engagement
- Curate & clarify: Continuously tighten wording on live markets and publish clarifications
- Audit resolutions: Review resolved markets for consistency, source integrity, and adherence to rule spirit
- Build pipelines: Turn raw events into recurring, scalable market categories
- Monitor the internet: Track trends, bubbling stories, and key events to ensure Polymarket stays first to what matters
- Build playbooks: Systematize best practices for rule drafting and dispute handling
- Monitor industry standards: Track regulatory guidance and peer platforms to keep Polymarket ahead of compliance risk
- Experiment: Pilot new formats and market types to push the frontier
Requirements
- Sharp legal/analytical mind: You spot loopholes before they’re problems and love airtight wording
- Strong editorial taste: You know what matters and what’s noise
- Exceptional technical writing: Clear, neutral, and unambiguous prose—no wiggle room
- Market intuition: Understanding of how incentives, liquidity, and trader behavior interact with rules
- High agency: You proactively hunt for issues and ship fixes fast
- Data & process rigor: Comfortable mining data, building checklists, and scaling audits with light automation
- Fast decision-making: You thrive in a fast-moving environment
- Forecasting fluency: Bonus if you’re familiar with crypto, sports, or political markets
- Experience in prediction markets, sports-book operations, compliance, or exchange rulebooks
- Background in law, risk, journalism, or dispute resolution
- Product instinct: You think in systems and user flows, not just content
- Ability to script or automate QA tools (SQL, Python, etc.)
- Networked in key verticals (sports, politics, crypto, etc.)
- Personal trading or market-making history on Polymarket or similar platforms
- Prior startup or high-agency team experience