Backed by Sequoia, Y Combinator and a16z.
About the role
At Kalshi we strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to build the best product for them. As the founding UX Researcher at Kalshi, you will own the research function that helps us understand customers deeply and make better decisions. You will lead qualitative and quantitative research across the product lifecycle, from early problem framing through post-launch measurement, and bring the customer’s perspective into the room before direction is set.
What they're looking for
- Experience: 5+ years doing UX research in industry
- Speed in execution: You excel at prioritizing research in fast-moving 0→1 environments and are comfortable navigating ambiguity, taking initiative, and knowing when to be scrappy vs. when to go deep
- Research craft: You know the right methodological approach for the question at hand, and you’re an expert in both qualitative and quantitative methods
- Data fluency: You excel at using behavioral and business data to sharpen research questions, interpret results, and connect insights to measurable outcomes. Triangulating across data sources is a standard part of the work you deliver
- Actively incorporates AI tools into your research workflow, using them to synthesize qualitative data at scale, surface patterns across large interview sets, accelerate analysis, and ask sharper questions faster
- Care deeply about users: You are energized by talking to customers regularly and believe that understanding people is the highest-leverage thing a product team can invest in
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.
At Kalshi we strive to learn and understand our users’ needs, behaviors, and emotions to build the best product for them. As the founding UX Researcher at Kalshi, you will own the research function that helps us understand customers...
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