Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market, allowing you to stay informed and profit from your knowledge by trading on future events across various topics. Backed by General Catalyst and Founders Fund.
About the role
Polymarket operates as a CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange, which means money movement is not a back-office function. It is core infrastructure. Deposits, withdrawals, and settlement payouts happen at high volume and accelerate dramatically around major real-world events. The Senior Payment Risk Analyst role exists to own the risk posture around all of it: how money gets onto the platform, how it moves across it, and how it leaves.
What they're looking for
- 8 or more years of hands-on experience in payments risk, fraud risk, or transaction monitoring at a fintech, exchange, payments company, bank, or comparable regulated financial services business
- Direct experience with ACH, wire, card networks (Visa and Mastercard), and at least one real-time payment rail (RTP or FedNow), including their dispute mechanics, chargeback rules, and associated fraud patterns
- Working knowledge of BSA/AML fundamentals and how payments risk and AML risk overlap, including SAR filing, structuring detection, and transaction monitoring systems
- Demonstrated experience setting quantitative risk thresholds, such as velocity limits and chargeback ratios, and defending those decisions to internal stakeholders, processors, banks, and card networks
- Strong written communication skills. This role produces risk memos and reporting for senior stakeholders on a regular basis. You need to write clearly and argue a position well
- Experience auditing a payment stack end to end, identifying where controls are missing or miscalibrated, and building the case for what needs to change
More about this role
Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. 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, Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.
We're growing fast, both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) 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.
Polymarket operates as a CFTC-regulated prediction market exchange, which means money movement is not a back-office function. It is core infrastructure. Deposits, withdrawals, and settlement payouts happen at high volume and accelerate dramatically around major real-world events. The Senior Payment Risk Analyst role exists to own the risk posture around all of it: how money gets onto the platform, how it moves across it, and how it leaves.
This is a senior / contributor role on the Payments Risk team within the US Exchange. You will sit at the intersection of fraud operations,...
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