Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Institutional

The role

You will own the analytics for institutional relationships including market makers, large takers, and brokerages. You will analyze trading behavior, monitor counterparty health, and support the institutional team during reviews and negotiations.

What you will do

• Own the analytics on largest makers, takers, and brokerages
• Build account-level views of major counterparties
• Monitor counterparty health and surface concentration risk or churn signals
• Analyze trading behavior to understand how participants make money
• Support the institutional team through reviews and negotiations
• Quantify how institutional flow affects the broader market
• Work with analytics engineers to turn reporting into modeled datasets
• Own documentation end-to-end

Required qualifications

• 7+ years in analytics, trading, or counterparty analysis, ideally at an exchange, trading venue, brokerage, or market making firm
• Expert SQL
• Deep understanding of how professional participants make money
• Credibility in a technical conversation with a sophisticated counterparty
• Commercial instinct
• Strong communication and discretion
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment

Nice to have

• Experience with institutional pricing, fee tiers, or rebate program design
• Familiarity with on-chain data or blockchain analytics
• Python or R for deeper statistical work on trading behavior
• Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products

Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
• 401k match
• Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

About the company

Polymarket is the world's fastest growing prediction market. It enables individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs.