Market Curation Editor — Politics

The role

You will act as the human judgment layer for an automated pipeline of political prediction markets. You will review, edit, and approve system-generated markets to ensure factual accuracy and correct settlement conventions.

What you will do

• Review a daily queue of system-generated political markets against a fixed completion deadline.
• Assess candidate markets for factual accuracy, clarity, and adjudicatable resolution criteria.
• Verify open and close timing for underlying events including delays.
• Apply correct settlement conventions for political events.
• Confirm policy fit against community standards and content guidelines.
• Approve, edit, or reject candidate markets and record structured reasons.
• Rewrite questions and resolution language for precision.
• Author timestamped clarifications and resolve settlement exceptions.
• Run proactive gap scans to monitor live markets and track political events.
• Participate in weekly calibration reviews.

Required qualifications

• 3+ years in political trading or prediction markets, political data operations, political/data journalism or editorial, polling and election modeling, or a comparable role.
• Demonstrable current fluency in U.S. politics and elections across federal, state, and major local races.
• Fluency with political media and political social media.
• Working knowledge of official election administration and settlement conventions.
• Proven judgment on edge cases like contested results, recounts, and litigation.
• Ability to interpret official sources quickly and reach a defensible determination.
• Exceptional written precision under deadline.
• Comfort applying a written policy framework and escalating sensitive topics.

Nice to have

• Direct experience trading on, or working with, political prediction markets or exchanges such as Kalshi or Polymarket.
• Background in polling and election modeling.
• Prior work on a political trading desk, or standing as a super-user of political prediction apps.
• Political journalism background and/or experience contributing to guidelines, style guides, rulebooks, or annotation standards.
• Familiarity with content policy, moderation frameworks, or editorial standards.

About the company

agency is a Product Data Operations team supporting a new social-predictions app moving through a beta launch.