Technical Project Manager

Company: Polymarket

Location: New York

Compensation: Competitive salary & equity

About the Company

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform, enabling individuals to trade on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace, it aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities. The company is experiencing rapid growth, with $21B traded in 2025, aiming to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media.

About the Role

The Security and IT teams are responsible for protecting a platform handling billions in trading volume and maintaining user trust. This role seeks a Technical Project Manager to own the execution of security programs, ensuring infrastructure security and a strong compliance posture. You will work directly with Security Engineering, IT, Legal, and Compliance teams to drive initiatives from pen testing to SOC 2 compliance. This is a hands-on role involving building program management infrastructure from scratch, translating complex security work into clear milestones, and removing blockers. The ideal candidate thrives in fast-moving environments, communicates risk clearly to executives, and has deep experience managing security programs at scale, acting as a coordination layer for security engineers.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end program management for security initiatives including pen testing cycles, vulnerability remediation tracking, incident response readiness, and security reviews for new product launches
• Build and maintain program infrastructure including risk registers, status dashboards, escalation paths, and retrospective processes
• Coordinate third-party security assessments and audits across Engineering, Legal, and Compliance teams
• Drive IT programs spanning device management, SaaS tooling, identity and access management, and endpoint security
• Facilitate sprint ceremonies and maintain healthy backlogs for security and IT teams while balancing sprint-level execution with multi-quarter roadmap planning
• Embed with security engineering teams to track delivery of internal security tooling and detection pipelines, translating complex work into clear org-wide visibility
• Identify and remove blockers early, escalating with context and proposed solutions to keep programs moving

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical program management experience with at least 2 years owning security or infrastructure programs
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple complex programs simultaneously in ambiguous environments without losing detail
• Strong technical fluency and experience working with security frameworks like SOC 2, CIS v8, NIST CSF, and vulnerability management lifecycles
• Proven track record of building program management infrastructure from scratch in fast-moving environments
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including ability to present risk trade-offs clearly to executives

Nice to Have

• Experience at crypto, fintech, or high-security-bar startups
• Familiarity with tools like Vanta, Drata, Jira, or Linear
• Background in software engineering or security engineering
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or CSM certification

Employment Type

Full-time, On-site