Director, Data Analytics

Polymarket; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary & equity

Unlimited PTO

Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage

401k match

Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big

Job summary

Polymarket is hiring a Director of Data Analytics to lead the team that turns data into decisions across the company. You'll head the embedded analytics organization, aligning analysts and data scientists with growth, product, markets, finance, risk, and institutional functions to ensure trusted insights for decision-making.

You'll define the analytics strategy, establish rigorous standards, and build a high-performing function that partners with business leaders to uncover opportunities,

Qualifications

• 10+ years in analytics or data science, including 4+ years managing analysts or scientists.
• Expert SQL and solid understanding of experimental design and causal claims.
• Experience leading embedded/matrixed analytics teams with cross-functional impact.
• Credibility with senior stakeholders and ability to push back with evidence.
• Track record of developing analysts and promoting talent.
• Strong prioritization across functions amid competing demands.
• Experience building a team rather than inheriting one.
• Comfort in fast-moving environments with changing business logic.
• Data science depth in experimentation, causal inference, or predictive modeling.

Responsibilities

• Lead the embedded analytics organization across growth, product, markets, finance, risk, and institutional.
• Define analytics strategy, establish rigor, and build high-performing teams.
• Translate data into clear recommendations that influence strategy.
• Partner with senior leaders to frame questions and guide complex analyses.
• Ensure consistency in definitions, standards, and best practices across the org.

Skills

Analytics leadership

SQL & data querying

Experiment design & causal inference

Stakeholder management

Team development & coaching

Prioritization & decision making

Hiring & team building

Adaptability under change

Data-driven storytelling

Job description

About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world's fastest growing prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.

We're growing quickly, both in terms of volume ($115B traded to date) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.

About the Role

Polymarket is hiring a Director of Data Analytics to lead the team that turns data into decisions across the company. You'll lead our embedded analytics organization, including analysts and data scientists aligned to growth, product, markets, finance, risk, and institutional, ensuring every team has trusted insights to make better decisions.

You'll define the analytics strategy, establish a high bar for rigor, and build a high performing organization that partners closely with leaders across the business. The team is responsible for uncovering opportunities, measuring impact, and helping shape the company's most important decisions. Success requires balancing deep partnership with individual teams while maintaining consistent definitions, analytical standards, and best practices across the organization.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You'll work closely with business leaders to frame the right questions, guide complex analyses, and translate data into clear recommendations that influence strategy. As Polymarket continues to launch new products and enter new markets, you'll build an analytics function that helps the company move faster, make smarter decisions, and create lasting competitive advantage.

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years in analytics or data science, including 4+ years managing analysts or scientists

• Expert SQL, and enough statistical grounding to review an experiment design or a causal claim and catch what is wrong with it

• Experience running an embedded or matrixed analytics team, and a clear point of view on where that model breaks down

• Credibility with senior business stakeholders — you can push back on an executive with evidence and keep the relationship intact

• A track record of developing analysts, including promoting people and managing others out when it was the right call

• Strong prioritization instincts across functions with genuinely competing demands and no obvious tiebreaker

• A hiring track record — you have built a team, not only inherited one

• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where business logic changes frequently and you need to keep pace

• (Plus) Data science depth — experimentation design, causal inference, or predictive modeling

• (Plus) Experience in a marketplace, exchange, or trading business where analytics sits close to the economics

• (Plus) 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