Director, Data Analytics

About the Company

Polymarket is the world's fastest growing prediction market platform, enabling 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 reflecting collective expectations about the future. The company is growing quickly in volume ($115B traded to date) and adoption as an alternative news source, with an ambition to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media.

About the Role

As Director of Data Analytics, you will lead the team that turns data into decisions across the company, leading an embedded analytics organization including analysts and data scientists aligned to growth, product, markets, finance, risk, and institutional. You will define the analytics strategy, establish a high bar for rigor, and build a high performing organization that partners closely with leaders across the business. This team is responsible for uncovering opportunities, measuring impact, and helping shape the company's most important decisions. This hands-on leadership role involves working closely with business leaders to frame questions, guide complex analyses, and translate data into clear recommendations that influence strategy, building an analytics function to help the company move faster, make smarter decisions, and create lasting competitive advantage.

Salary

$400,000 to $500,000 annually, plus equity and benefits

Responsibilities

• Leading, hiring, and developing a team of embedded analysts and data scientists.
• Owning the analytical standard for rigor and honesty.
• Partnering with business leaders to set analytical agendas.
• Protecting the embedded model where analysts own outcomes.
• Building shared craft across a distributed team through review practices and experimentation standards.
• Partnering with data platform leadership on the metrics layer for consistent definitions.
• Owning company-level reporting for leadership, board, and investors.
• Developing analysts into senior individual contributors and future leads.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in analytics or data science.
• 4+ years managing analysts or scientists.
• Expert SQL.
• Sufficient statistical grounding to review experiment design or causal claims.
• Experience running an embedded or matrixed analytics team.
• Credibility with senior business stakeholders.
• Track record of developing analysts.
• Strong prioritization instincts across competing demands.
• Hiring track record.
• Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where business logic changes frequently.
• Data science depth (experimentation design, causal inference, or predictive modeling) is a plus.
• Experience in a marketplace/exchange/trading business where analytics sits close to the economics is a plus.
• Experience in fintech/crypto/prediction markets/data-intensive financial products is a plus.