Head of Product Legal

The role

The Head of Product Legal will sit between the legal and product functions to review new market categories and product features for regulatory exposure. You will translate legal constraints into product requirements and work with product managers and engineers to embed legal thinking into the design process.

What you will do

• Review new market categories and product features for regulatory exposure before they launch.
• Translate legal and compliance constraints into specific product requirements for engineering.
• Contribute to the overall product roadmap by flagging regulatory risk early.
• Work directly with product managers and engineers to embed legal thinking into the design process.
• Build internal frameworks and guidelines to make common legal questions answerable without escalation.
• Monitor the regulatory environment across crypto, derivatives, and prediction markets.
• Make fast, well-reasoned calls on novel legal risk in real time and document the rationale.

Required qualifications

• JD required.
• 8 or more years of experience at the intersection of legal and product, either in-house at a tech or crypto company or in a regulatory advisory role where you were embedded with a product team.
• Know how regulators think and what they look for.
• Prior work in crypto.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment.
• Strong product instincts.

Nice to have

• Direct experience with CFTC regulation or derivatives compliance.
• Experience with prediction markets, swaps, or event contracts.

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 largest prediction market platform. It enables individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs.