# Director, Data Analytics

**Company:** [Polymarket](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/polymarket)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Data Analytics
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** SQL, Data Science, Statistical Analysis, Experimentation Design, Causal Inference, Predictive Modeling, Data Analytics, Metrics Layer, Data Modeling, Analytics Strategy
**Posted:** 2026-08-12

> Leads an embedded analytics organization supporting growth, product, markets, finance, risk, and institutional functions. The role requires 10+ years in analytics or data science, 4+ years managing teams, expert SQL, strong statistical judgment, and executive-level stakeholder partnership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead, hire, and develop a team of embedded analysts and data scientists across growth, product, markets, finance, risk, and institutional.
- Own the analytical standard for rigorous, decision-ready analysis with clear assumptions.
- Partner with business leaders to set analytical agendas and prioritize high-impact work.
- Build shared craft across a distributed team through review practices, experimentation standards, and knowledge sharing.
- Partner with data platform leadership on the metrics layer to maintain consistent definitions and graduate recurring analyses into modeled datasets.
- Own company-level reporting and the metrics shared with the board and investors.
- Develop analysts into senior individual contributors and future leaders.

## Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in analytics or data science.
- 4+ years managing analysts or data scientists.
- Expert SQL skills.
- Statistical grounding sufficient to review experiment designs and causal claims.
- Experience running an embedded or matrixed analytics team.
- Credibility with senior business stakeholders and ability to challenge decisions with evidence.
- Track record of developing analysts, including promoting people and managing performance.
- Strong prioritization skills across competing functional demands.
- Experience hiring and building a team.
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where business logic changes frequently.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with experimentation design, causal inference, or predictive modeling.
- Experience in a marketplace, exchange, or trading business.
- Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products.

## Compensation and Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity.
- Unlimited paid time off.
- Full health, vision, and dental coverage.
- 401(k) match.
- Hardware setup including a new MacBook Pro, display, and accessories.

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