Polymarket
Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Institutional
$200K–$300K
New York · On-site · Senior · Full-time · Posted Aug 12, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in analytics, trading, or counterparty analysis; ideally at an exchange, trading venue, brokerage, or market making firm.
About the job
Own analytics for Polymarket’s major institutional counterparties and use trading and relationship analysis to inform account health, market impact, reviews, and negotiations.
What you'll do
- Analyze counterparty activity, economics, performance trends, and health; surface concentration risk and churn signals.
- Support institutional reviews and negotiations with analysis of counterparty value, requested terms, and market impact.
- Work with analytics engineers to model recurring relationship reporting and document analyses.
What they ask for
- 7+ years in analytics, trading, or counterparty analysis.
- Expert SQL, including working with order book and transaction-level data.
- Deep understanding of professional trading economics, including spread capture, adverse selection, inventory risk, and liquidity provision.
- Strong communication, commercial judgment, and discretion with sensitive counterparty information.
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 statistical work is also a plus.
Pay
$200,000 to $300,000 annually (base salary)
Tools
SQL, Python, R
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