# Macro Markets Lead

**Company:** [Polymarket](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/polymarket)
**Location:** New York, NY
**Role:** Product Management
**Experience:** 2+ years
**Skills:** macro trading, economic forecasting, derivatives markets, liquidity mechanics, market microstructure, forecasting models, api specification, data feeds, economic releases, quantitative research, market making
**Posted:** 2026-07-20

> Own the full macro vertical at Polymarket, covering macroeconomic, financial, and geopolitical prediction markets. Expand coverage, drive liquidity with market makers, build resolution systems using government data, integrate economic APIs, and optimize market performance while partnering with engineering, compliance, and data vendors.

## Job Description

## What You'll Do
- Own the macro vertical — from CPI prints and Fed decisions to GDP forecasts, labor data, and geopolitical risk events
- Expand coverage: identify and prioritize macroeconomic releases, financial events, and global catalysts worth listing; design systematic and discretionary pipelines for new macro markets
- Drive liquidity by collaborating with leading market makers and trading firms to structure incentives, fees, and quoting standards for high-volume macro markets
- Build reliable, transparent resolution systems using official government data, economic releases, and automated feeds
- Integrate data sources — work with economics data providers, financial APIs, and government datasets to ensure accuracy, timeliness, and resilience
- Shape partnerships with data firms, economic research institutions, financial media, and macro-adjacent platforms
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and compliance to launch macro features that meet regulatory and technical expectations
- Monitor volume, spreads, participation, and latency across macro markets and relentlessly optimize them

## What We're Looking For
- 2+ years in macro trading, economic forecasting, derivatives markets, or event-driven research
- Deep understanding of liquidity mechanics, market microstructure, and forecasting models used in macro contexts
- Strong technical fluency — able to spec APIs, debug data feeds, interpret economic releases, and collaborate with engineering teams
- Product sensibility — you think in systems, incentives, user flows, and feedback loops
- Comfort navigating regulated and unregulated environments simultaneously
- High-agency mindset and appetite for ownership; thrives in fast-moving, informationally dense environments
- (Plus) Experience at a regulated exchange, derivatives venue, or DCM/DCO
- (Plus) Background in quantitative research or market-making
- (Plus) Existing relationships with macro data vendors, economists, or research desks
- (Plus) Deep obsession with macroeconomics, markets, and the interplay between data and price

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

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