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Overview
Join Polymarket as a Senior Risk Analyst to shape the risk management function for our U.S. Exchange business. Drive risk governance and work closely with trading, product, legal, and operations teams in a fast-paced environment.
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
- •Build and maintain the risk governance framework for the U.S. Exchange business, including risk and control self assessments, tolerance thresholds, incident capture, and reporting cadences.
- •Draft, revise, and own risk policies, procedures, and the risk register as the U.S Exchange business grows and regulatory requirements evolve.
- •Partner directly with trading, product, legal, and operations teams to identify risk issues early, assess exposure, and drive resolution without waiting on formal escalation paths.
- •Run ongoing assessments against Polymarket's Enterprise Risk Management framework and flag gaps before they become incidents.
- •Hold business stakeholders accountable to defined risk processes and maintain clear ownership of risk decisions across the organization.
- •Translate complex risk and control concepts into plain terms for business leaders who need to make fast, informed decisions.
- •Monitor the regulatory and market environment relevant to U.S. exchange operations and surface anything that requires a policy or process response.
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
- •7+ years of experience in risk management, compliance, or audit within financial services, specifically in capital markets.
- •Direct experience in front office or middle office capital markets trading, covering equities and/or equity derivatives. Trading compliance and risk management roles count.
- •Demonstrated experience implementing a risk management framework inside a regulated organization, not just working within one someone else built.
- •Track record of working alongside trading or front office business leaders to assess risk issues and propose practical solutions, not just document them.
- •Ability to drive decisions across product, legal, and operations teams without relying on formal authority. People listen to you because you know your stuff and communicate clearly.
- •Strong written communication skills. You can produce governance documents, policies, and risk committee materials that are clear, accurate, and credible.
- •*(Plus)* Experience at a broker-dealer, futures commission merchant, or regulated exchange.
- •*(Plus)* Familiarity with CFTC or SEC regulatory frameworks relevant to exchange operations.
- •*(Plus)* Prior experience at a startup or high-growth fintech where you had to build processes from scratch.