Polymarket

VP of Product

Polymarket

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: New York City • New York • United States

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Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Lead product strategy and vision. Define a clear, compelling product direction aligned with Polymarket's growth ambitions. Translate business goals into a prioritized, outcome-driven roadmap. Communicate direction clearly across the company.
  • Own product end-to-end. Drive product development across core experiences - trading flows, onboarding, discovery, growth surfaces, and new product ideas. Own the full lifecycle from concept through launch and iteration, maintaining a high bar for clarity, usability, and speed.
  • Build and lead the product team. Hire, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of Product Managers. Build a culture of strong craft, fast iteration, and rigorous thinking about user problems and business outcomes.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally. Partner deeply with engineering, design, data, CX, and leadership to shape the roadmap and ship best-in-class products. Serve as connective tissue between strategy and execution.
  • Develop deep user and market insight. Build real intuition for Polymarket users - traders, news readers, power users, and newcomers alike. Use qualitative and quantitative research to inform decisions and build conviction.

Requirements

  • 10+ years of product experience, with significant time leading product at early-stage or high-growth startups, ideally having worked on or led category-defining products
  • A track record of building exceptional consumer and/or fintech products at fast-moving companies
  • Highly product-minded, meticulous about execution, and obsessed with clarity, simplicity, and user trust
  • Technical enough to go deep with engineers and opinionated enough to push back on scope creep
  • Experience scaling product functions - you know how to balance speed with quality, shipping fast without losing the thread
  • A talent magnet: you love hiring, mentoring, and building great teams, and you have a roster of people who'd want to work with you again
  • Bonus: experience with finance, markets, trading products, crypto, or DeFi
  • Bonus: deep curiosity about prediction markets, incentives, and the future of truth
Benefits
  • Competitive salary & equity
  • Unlimited PTO, Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
  • 401k match
  • Hardware setup - new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
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Hard Skills & Tools
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Soft Skills
leadershipcommunicationcollaborationclaritymeticulousnessuser trustcuriosityrigorous thinkingproblem-solvingadaptability