Polymarket
Senior Risk Analyst
New York. Posted 2 months ago
The role
The Senior Risk Analyst will build and maintain the risk governance framework for the U.S. Exchange business. This person will work with trading, product, legal, and operations teams to identify risk issues and implement risk policies.
What you will do
- Build and maintain the risk governance framework for the U.S. Exchange business.
- Draft, revise, and own risk policies, procedures, and the risk register.
- Partner with trading, product, legal, and operations teams to identify risk issues and assess exposure.
- Run ongoing assessments against the Enterprise Risk Management framework.
- Hold business stakeholders accountable to defined risk processes.
- Translate complex risk and control concepts for business leaders.
- Monitor the regulatory and market environment relevant to U.S. exchange operations.
Required qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, or audit within financial services, specifically in capital markets.
- Direct experience in front office or middle office capital markets trading, covering equities and/or equity derivatives.
- Demonstrated experience implementing a risk management framework inside a regulated organization.
- Track record of working alongside trading or front office business leaders to assess risk issues and propose practical solutions.
- Ability to drive decisions across product, legal, and operations teams without relying on formal authority.
- Strong written communication skills.
Nice to have
- Experience at a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, or regulated exchange.
- Familiarity with CFTC or SEC regulatory frameworks relevant to exchange operations.
- Prior experience at a startup or high-growth fintech where you had to build processes from scratch.
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.