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Overview
Join Polymarket as a Lead, FCM Legal to manage legal and regulatory infrastructure for FCM relationships in a fast-growing prediction market platform.
About Polymarket
Polymarket is the world's largest 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 fast — both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) 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.
What You'll Do
- •Advise product and business teams on CFTC implications before new features ship, not after
- •Draft and negotiate customer-facing FCM agreements, disclosures, and related documentation to ensure they are accurate, compliant, and ready to send
- •Prepare responses to CFTC and NFA regulatory inquiries and examinations, coordinating across Legal and Compliance to produce tight, well-supported submissions
- •Draft comment letters, no-action requests, and interpretive submissions on matters affecting the FCM, DCM, and DCO
- •Track CFTC enforcement actions, rulemaking, and NFA notices to surface emerging risks and translate them into actionable guidance for internal teams
- •Advise on FCM policies and procedures covering segregation, net capital, margin, and customer protection requirements
- •Support litigation strategy on matters touching FCM operations and exchange regulation
Benefits
- •Competitive salary & equity
- •Unlimited PTO
- •Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- •401k match
- •Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
What We're Looking For
- •J.D. and active U.S. bar membership
- •3–7 years of FCM-focused legal or compliance experience, either in private practice, at a regulator, or in-house at a derivatives firm
- •Deep working knowledge of the Commodity Exchange Act, CFTC regulations, and NFA rules, particularly as they apply to FCMs — including segregation, net capital, and margin requirements
- •Demonstrated ability to write clearly and persuasively — comment letters, no-action requests, and customer agreements that are filed or sent with minimal revision
- •A track record of being brought into business and product decisions early, not used as a last-minute legal check
- •Strong judgment about when to escalate, when to move, and how to give practical guidance under regulatory uncertainty
- •Direct experience with CFTC examination or enforcement processes
- •(Plus) Familiarity with prediction markets or event contracts
- •(Plus) Interest in emerging financial technologies and market structure