Director, Data Platform
PolymarketPrediction Markets company
New York, United StatesDirector
Founders Fund
General Catalyst
Polychain
Intercontinental Exchange
ParaFi
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead data platform strategy, architecture, and team for a fast-growing prediction market.
- •Polymarket is hiring a Director of Data Platform to build and scale the foundation that powers every decision across the company.
- •You'll lead the teams responsible for our data platform, including data engineering, analytics engineering, and data science, owning everything from data ingestion and transformation through the trusted data models the business relies on every day.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead, hire, and develop a team of data engineers, analytics engineers, and data scientists.
- •Own the architecture and roadmap for the data platform, from ingestion through the modeled layer.
- •Set the standards that make data trustworthy including modeling conventions, testing, freshness SLAs, and incident response.
- •Partner with engineering on instrumentation and on-chain data ingestion.
- •Make the build-versus-buy and tooling calls across orchestration, transformation, warehouse, and BI.
- •Requirements 10+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data science, including 4+ years managing.
- •Experience leading a multi-disciplinary data team.
- •Strong technical foundation in data modeling, architecture, and query optimization.
- •Production experience across the modern data stack: orchestration, transformation, cloud warehouse, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
- •Track record of raising data quality and building trust in data.
Required skills
PythonSQLAirflowdbtSparkSnowflakeAWSGoogle CloudTechnical Leadership
Domain expertise
crypto
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary & equity, Unlimited PTO, Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage, 401k match, Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
Tech stack
PythonSQLAirflowdbtSparkDatabricksSnowflakeBigQueryAWSGoogle Cloud
