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Market Operations - Sports

Kalshi · New York Office · On-site

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About Kalshi

Backed by Sequoia, Y Combinator and a16z.

About the role

Execute the listing of sports markets with precision, ensuring all markets are properly configured and accurately reflect game conditions, player availability, and league rules. Make rapid determinations on market outcomes based on official league data, box scores, and verified sports sources while managing time-sensitive settlement windows.

What they're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in finance, economics, business, sports management, mathematics, or a related field
  • Encyclopedic knowledge of sports across multiple leagues with deep understanding of rules, playoff structures, tiebreakers, and statistical categories for NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, and major NCAA sports
  • Extensive experience with sportsbooks – understanding how sportsbooks operate, common market types, settlement procedures, and the edge cases that arise in sports market operations
  • Experience working with structured, time-sensitive sports data including real-time feeds, official league data sources, and sports statistics platforms
  • Genuine passion for sports with the ability to follow multiple games simultaneously and stay current on player news, injuries, trades, and team dynamics across all major leagues
  • Exceptional multitasking abilities to manage numerous live markets during peak periods while maintaining accuracy in high-pressure, time-sensitive situations
More about this role

Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history, is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more.

We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position.

Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet.

Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets.

Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets.

In the Sports Operations function at Kalshi, you'll be a critical member ensuring our sports markets run flawlessly. The Sports Operations team is responsible for the precise execution of sports market listings, determinations, and...

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