Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Growth
Polymarket · New York
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Senior Data Scientist / Analyst owning full-funnel GTM analytics for a prediction market vertical, from paid acquisition through first trade to repeat engagement. Works with marketing on CAC, ROAS, payback, and channel mix, and requires expert SQL plus experiments and cohort/retention analysis.
About Polymarket
Polymarket is the world's fastest growing prediction market. 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 quickly, both in terms of volume ($115B traded to date) 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.
About the Role
Polymarket is looking for a Senior Data Scientist / Analyst, Growth to own full-funnel GTM analytics across the business. You'll be accountable for understanding how users find us, what turns them into traders, and what brings them back.
This is a role for someone who wants to own a number rather than staff a request queue. You'll set the analytical agenda for your vertical: deciding what's worth measuring, telling marketing where the next dollar should go, and making the case when the data says the current plan is wrong. And you'll do it in a fast-moving environment where new markets launch constantly and the growth playbook changes with them.
What You'll Do
- Own full-funnel analytics for your vertical, from paid acquisition through first trade to repeat engagement, and be the person who can explain what is driving each step
- Partner with marketing on spend efficiency including CAC, ROAS, payback period, and channel mix, and make the call on where incremental dollars should go
- Size and prioritize growth opportunities within your vertical: which leagues, events, or market types deserve investment, and what the return is likely to look like
- Design and read experiments across creative, lifecycle, and onboarding, and hold a clear line on what did and did not work
- Build the cohort, funnel, and retention analyses that show how your vertical's users behave differently from the rest of the platform
- Be the analytical voice in your vertical's planning, bringing the numbers that set the targets, then hold the team accountable to them
- Work with analytics engineers to turn your recurring analyses into durable models rather than one-off queries
- Write end-to-end documentation that’s clear and thorough enough that anyone on the team can pick up your analysis without friction
What We're Looking For
- 7+ years in growth, marketing, or product analytics, with a track record of owning a business area end-to-end
- Expert SQL. You can go from raw event tables to a defensible answer without help
- Deep fluency in full-funnel GTM metrics including CAC, ROAS, payback, conversion rate, retention, LTV, and the judgment to know when each one is misleading
- Experience embedded with marketing and product teams as a partner in the work, not a downstream request queue
- Comfort with ambiguity. You can scope a vague question into a real analysis and defend the assumptions you made along the way
- Strong communication. You can take a complex analysis to a non-technical audience and land the recommendation
- Comfortable operating in a fast-moving environment where business logic changes frequently and you need to keep pace
- (Plus) Data science background: experimentation design, causal inference, or predictive modeling in Python or R
- (Plus) Genuine interest or expertise in one of our verticals, whether that is sports, crypto, or politics
- (Plus) Experience in fintech, crypto, prediction markets, or other data-intensive financial products
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
Pay Transparency
Base salary range: $200,000 to $300,000 annually, plus equity and benefits.
This range reflects a good-faith estimate for this position. Experience levels vary widely within a title here, so please reach out even if your expectations fall outside it. We're always happy to chat.
Compensation: $200K - $300K
