Polymarket
Data Scientist Markets
New York
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About the role
- The Markets team is responsible for what gets listed on Polymarket, how those markets are structured, and whether they actually work.
- This role sits inside that team as the dedicated data scientist, owning the analytical layer that informs nearly every decision they make.
- Right now, a lot of that work is manual, ad hoc, or not happening at all.
Responsibilities
- Model liquidity dynamics across markets to identify what drives healthy order flow and inform how we structure and adjust liquidity rewards.
- Partner with the Markets team weekly to scope incoming data questions, prioritize them, and deliver outputs that lead to a decision, not just a chart.
- Develop frameworks for evaluating what makes a market work, so those standards can be applied consistently across listings and product decisions.
- Deep, working knowledge of market structure. You should be able to reason about order books, spreads, liquidity provision, and market design tradeoffs without needing a primer.
- That means thinking hard about liquidity, market design, and what separates a market that generates real price discovery from one that sits dead.
Requirements
- Strong Python proficiency for data analysis, statistical modeling, and working with large datasets.
- Deep, working knowledge of market structure.
- Experience owning analyses end to end, from scoping an ambiguous question to handing a stakeholder something they can act on.
- You can explain your assumptions and where your model breaks.
- If you have spent time at a prediction market, a trading firm, or a fund where you were close to market structure questions, this will feel familiar.
Nice to have
- (Plus) Experience at a prediction market platform, trading firm, or fund where you were close to market structure or liquidity questions.
Compensation
- Competitive salary & equity
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- Build and maintain recurring reports on market health metrics so the team has a clear, ongoing view of what is working and what is not.
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