Director, Data Platform & Analytics — Equity & Unlimited PTO

Polymarket; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; 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 Platform to design and scale the data foundation powering company decisions. You will lead data engineers, analytics engineers, and data scientists, owning ingestion, transformation, and modeling pipelines while shaping architecture and data governance.

You will drive platform strategy, ensure trustworthy datasets, and collaborate with product and engineering teams as Polymarket grows across on-chain and off-chain systems.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in data engineering, analytics engineering, or data science, with 4+ years in leadership/management.
• Experience leading a multi-disciplinary data team with diverse working styles.
• Strong ability to review data models and architecture proposals and improve them.
• Production experience with modern data stack: Airflow, dbt, Spark; cloud warehouses like Databricks, Snowflake, BigQuery; AWS/GCP.
• Track record of improving data quality and trust across datasets.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale data platform architecture and roadmap for ingestion to modeled layer.
• Lead data engineers, analytics engineers, and data scientists; set standards for data modeling, testing, and ownership.
• Partner with engineering for instrumentation and on-chain data ingestion; ensure data captured before asks occur.
• Prioritize platform work with analytics leadership and business stakeholders.
• Make build-vs-buy decisions for orchestration, transformation, warehouse, and BI tooling.

Skills

Data leadership

Architecture & roadmap

Data modeling

Data quality & trust

Stakeholder prioritization

Hiring track record

Tools

Airflow

dbt

Spark

Databricks

Snowflake

BigQuery

AWS

GCP

Job description

Polymarket is hiring a Director of Data Platform to design and scale the data foundation powering company decisions. You will lead data engineers, analytics engineers, and data scientists, owning ingestion, transformation, and modeling pipelines while shaping architecture and data governance.

You will drive platform strategy, ensure trustworthy datasets, and collaborate with product and engineering teams as Polymarket grows across on-chain and off-chain systems.