Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Growth

Polymarket; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 300,000; 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显示

Job summary

Polymarket is seeking a Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Growth to own full-funnel GTM analytics across the business. You'll analyze how users find us, become traders, and stay engaged in a fast-moving market.

This role sets the analytical agenda, guides marketing spend via CAC/ROAS, and builds durable models with analytics engineers while documenting findings for the team.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in growth, marketing, or product analytics.
• Expert SQL from raw event tables to defensible answers.
• Full-funnel GTM metrics knowledge: CAC, ROAS, payback, retention, LTV.
• Experience embedded with marketing and product teams as a partner.
• Ability to scope vague questions into real analyses.

Responsibilities

• Own full-funnel analytics from paid acquisition through first trade to repeat engagement.
• Partner with marketing on spend efficiency including CAC, ROAS, payback period.
• Size and prioritize growth opportunities within your vertical for investment and return.
• Design and read experiments across creative, lifecycle, and onboarding.
• Build cohort, funnel, and retention analyses to show user behavior differences.

Skills

SQL

Growth analytics

Communication

Ambiguity

Python

R

Experiment design

Data science

Tools

Python

R

Job description

About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world's fastest growing prediction market. 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 looking for a Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Growth to own full-funnel GTM analytics across the business. You'll be accountable for understanding how users find us, what turns them into traders, and what brings them back.

This is a role for someone who wants to own a number rather than staff a request queue. You'll set the analytical agenda for your vertical: deciding what's worth measuring, telling marketing where the next dollar should go, and making the case when the data says the current plan is wrong. And you'll do it in a fast-moving environment where new markets launch constantly and the growth playbook changes with them.

What You'll Do

• Own full-funnel analytics for your vertical, from paid acquisition through first trade to repeat engagement, and be the person who can explain what is driving each step




• Partner with marketing on spend efficiency including CAC, ROAS, payback period, and channel mix, and make the call on where incremental dollars should go




• Size and prioritize growth opportunities within your vertical: which leagues, events, or market types deserve investment, and what the return is likely to look like




• Design and read experiments across creative, lifecycle, and onboarding, and hold a clear line on what did and did not work




• Build the cohort, funnel, and retention analyses that show how your vertical's users behave differently from the rest of the platform




• Be the analytical voice in your vertical's planning, bringing the numbers that set the targets, then hold the team accountable to them




• Work with analytics engineers to turn your recurring analyses into durable models rather than one-off queries




• Write end-to-end documentation that's clear and thorough enough that anyone on the team can pick up your analysis without friction

What We're Looking For

• 7+ years in growth, marketing, or product analytics, with a track record of owning a business area end-to-end




• Expert SQL. You can go from raw event tables to a defensible answer without help




• Deep fluency in full-funnel GTM metrics including CAC, ROAS, payback, conversion rate, retention, LTV, and the judgment to know when each one is misleading




• Experience embedded with marketing and product teams as a partner in the work, not a downstream request queue




• Comfort with ambiguity. You can scope a vague question into a real analysis and defend the assumptions you made along the way




• Strong communication. You can take a complex analysis to a non-technical audience and land the recommendation




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




• (Plus) Data science background: experimentation design, causal inference, or predictive modeling in Python or R




• (Plus) Genuine interest or expertise in one of our verticals, whether that is sports, crypto, or politics




• (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

Pay Transparency

Base salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.

This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.