Design market templates, rules, listing policies, and restrictions for an automated prediction-market platform, and provide a second approval for proposed outcomes, halts, and voids. Lead and expand operations teams, participate in on-call coverage, and define requirements for market desk tools.
Lead Hacksaw Markets’ US regulatory strategy, licensing-readiness plan, and compliance roadmap, translating applicable rules into product requirements and operational controls. Build the compliance organization and management system, oversee regulatory and stakeholder engagement, and review markets, products, distribution models, and partnerships before launch.
You will own the European regulatory and compliance strategy, including licensing-readiness and the development of a repeatable framework for jurisdiction assessment. You will also lead engagement with regulators and external counsel while building the European compliance organization and governance structures.
You will own the quantitative methods for margin and collateral, ensuring the platform is protected while optimizing capital usage. This involves building stress tests, setting position limits, and translating quantitative methodologies into technical specifications for engineering teams.
You will design and lead the end-to-end market surveillance framework, including alert systems, investigations, and reporting. You are responsible for defining detection scenarios for market manipulation and establishing integrity standards for all participants.
Build and lead the market-risk function, establishing risk frameworks, appetite, limits, monitoring, stress tests, and escalation protocols across markets, participants, and liquidity providers. Review new markets and products, develop real-time risk indicators with partner teams, and lead responses to breaches, pricing anomalies, data failures, and disorderly markets.
Investigate surveillance alerts for insider patterns, wash trading, coordinated accounts, and external integrity signals by matching alerts to order and position data. Document evidence-backed investigations, improve surveillance rules with operations engineering, and contribute to regular integrity reporting.
Manage match-day exceptions, monitor live markets for accurate opening and closing, and prepare sourced outcome recommendations when human interpretation is needed. Review markets for errors and translate recurring operational issues into clear tooling tickets for engineers.
Monitor live market exposure and act on limit breaches, suspicious conditions, or operational exceptions. Provide oversight for critical market decisions and document all human interventions through clear incident notes.
Lead the risk desk across operations risk, quantitative risk, and surveillance, setting limits and policies and taking action such as halting markets, cancelling trades, or changing limits. Develop surveillance rules, oversee margin methodology and stress testing, document incidents, and build the risk team as the platform grows.
Own the market-resolution framework, including rules, authoritative data sources, decision rights, service levels, exception handling, and fallback procedures. Lead disputed resolutions and work with product and engineering teams to automate reliable outcomes while maintaining human oversight and auditable decision trails.
