Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Institutional
PolymarketPrediction Markets company
New York, United StatesSenior
Founders Fund
General Catalyst
Polychain
Intercontinental Exchange
ParaFi
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Own analytics for institutional relationships, analyzing trading behavior and counterparty performance.
- •Polymarket is looking for a Senior Data Scientist / Analyst to own the analytics behind our institutional relationships
- •the market makers, large takers, and brokerages that account for a disproportionate share of platform volume.
- •You'll be the person who understands each of these counterparties in depth: how they trade, how they make money with us, and whether the relationship is getting healthier or weaker.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the analytics on our largest makers, takers, and brokerages, and be the internal source of truth on how each relationship is performing Build the account-level view of every major counterparty
- •volume, flow composition, spread capture, fee and rebate economics, and how each has trended over time Monitor counterparty health and surface concentration risk, deteriorating engagement, or churn signals early enough for the team to act on them Analyze trading behavior to understand how each participant actually makes money on our platform, and whether the terms we have given them still make sense Support the institutional team through reviews and negotiations with the analysis behind them
- •what a counterparty is worth, what they are asking for, and what we should be willing to give Requirements 7+ years in analytics, trading, or counterparty analysis, ideally at an exchange, trading venue, brokerage, or market making firm Expert SQL
- •you can work directly against order book and transaction-level data without supervision Deep understanding of how professional participants make money
- •spread capture, adverse selection, inventory risk, and the economics of providing liquidity Credibility in a technical conversation with a sophisticated counterparty
- •you can hold your own with a firm's own quants Commercial instinct
- •you can look at a relationship and articulate what it is worth to us and where the leverage sits
Required skills
SQLPythonR
Domain expertise
fintechcrypto
Benefits & perks
Competitive salary & equity, Unlimited PTO, Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage, 401k match, Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
Tech stack
SQLPythonR