Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Markets
Polymarket is a decentralized information markets platform that lets users bet on the outcome of real-world events.
Maintainer signals as of 8/23/2026
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About Polymarket
Polymarket is an information markets platform where users can trade on the outcomes of various events, leveraging the power of free markets to forecast the future. It provides a mechanism for users to bet on real-world events and earn money based on the outcomes.
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About the Role
The Markets team analyst will build analytical infrastructure for understanding market health, model liquidity and order flow, own liquidity reward and rebate analytics, evaluate listings, diagnose underperforming markets, track competitive coverage, and develop frameworks for market quality and product decisions.
Requirements
- 7+ years in analytics, data science, market operations, or exchange strategy.
- Expert SQL.
- Strong Python for data analysis, statistical modeling, and large datasets.
- Deep knowledge of market structure, order books, spreads, liquidity provision, and market design.
- Ability to reason about incentive design and participant behavior.
- Experience owning analyses from scoping through actionable delivery.
- Ability to set priorities and work independently in a non-data team.
- High accuracy standards.
- Ability to operate in a fast-moving environment with frequently changing business logic.
- Experience at a prediction market platform, trading firm, or fund near market structure or liquidity questions.
- Familiarity with automated market makers, CLOB mechanics, or decentralized exchange design.
- Experience building or evaluating liquidity incentive programs.
- Familiarity with on-chain data or blockchain analytics.
Responsibilities
- Model liquidity dynamics across markets and inform liquidity rewards.
- Own analytics for liquidity rewards and rebate programs, including payouts, depth, spreads, maker behavior, incentive pricing, and program gaming.
- Build recurring reporting on market health and market-by-market performance.
- Audit new market listings and recommend approval, adjustment, or rejection.
- Diagnose underperforming markets and identify root causes.
- Track competitive listing coverage and prioritize catalog gaps.
- Develop frameworks for evaluating market quality across listings and product decisions.
- Scope data questions, prioritize them, and deliver decision-ready outputs.
- Identify instrumentation gaps and collaborate with engineering to address them.
- Document analyses clearly and thoroughly end to end.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage
- 401k match
- New MacBook Pro, big display, and accessories
