# Head of Markets

**Company:** [Polymarket](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/polymarket)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Executive Leadership
**Experience:** 10+ years
**Skills:** Financial Markets, Market Microstructure, Liquidity Strategy, Market Maker Relationships, Market Structure, Prediction Markets, Binary Options, Derivatives Markets, Market Governance, Market Resolution
**Posted:** 2026-04-09

> Senior executive leading full market lifecycle at prediction market platform, including selection, structure, liquidity, and resolution. Requires 10+ years in financial markets with expertise in microstructure, liquidity strategy, and market maker networks.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead a team across market selection, liquidity, operations, and resolution
- Drive market listing strategy — sharp instinct for what generates trading interest
- Build frameworks for evaluating market viability: event significance, tradability, audience reach
- Own market structure — tick sizes, fees, rebates, incentive design — ensuring tight spreads and durable liquidity
- Build and manage relationships with market makers, trading firms, and LPs; primary contact for key counterparties
- Design liquidity programs and commercial partnerships that attract and retain committed capital
- Work with media, sports, politics and other partner organizations to shape resolution strategy and determine viability of outcome
- Define scalable systems for market creation, maintenance, and resolution across a growing catalog
- Own resolution credibility and market integrity

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in financial markets – potentially led a markets function at an exchange or held a senior seat on a sell-side desk with direct responsibility for liquidity strategy, market maker relationships, and market structure
- Deep understanding of market microstructure — how spreads, incentives, fee design, and product structure interact to produce market quality
- Strong conviction that liquidity is an output of structure and demand, not just relationships; has built or shaped the conditions that attract durable capital
- Experience with market governance, resolution, or integrity functions — comfortable owning high-stakes decisions where credibility is on the line
- Established network across market makers, trading firms, and liquidity providers
- Track record through real market stress — drawdowns, flash crashes, dislocations — with the judgment and reputation that comes from navigating them
- Effective operator across Product, Legal, Compliance, and Engineering in a fast-moving environment

## Nice-to-Haves
- Experience with prediction markets, binary options, or derivatives markets
- Existing relationships with market makers, trading firms, or liquidity providers
- Experience at an exchange operating in a novel or emerging asset class
- Experience at a high-growth fintech, trading firm, or early-stage startup environment

## Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

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