US Filings Lead

Location: New York, NY (in office strongly preferred)

Type: Full-Time

Polymarket is the world’s leading prediction markets platform and a CFTC-regulated designated contract market. We let people trade on real-world events, from political elections to sports outcomes to macroeconomic data releases, turning any question about the future into a tradeable contract. We’re building a new kind of information layer: fast, precise, and financially incentivized. Our markets have become a primary source of real-time probabilistic truth for millions of users. Now we’re looking for domain experts who can own what matters and ensure Polymarket is always first to cover it.

We’re hiring a US Filings Lead to work at the intersection of markets, compliance, and legal at Polymarket US. You’ll own the CFTC 40.2 self-certification and 40.6 rule amendment pipeline end to end, and work with the Markets team to structure new markets so they are both tradeable and certifiable.

This role requires understanding how markets work, not just how to file them: contract design, market structure, and the economic impact of fees and incentives, alongside the regulatory requirements. You’ll report to Compliance and work day to day with the Markets team in New York.

- Work with the Markets team on new markets from the start: contract terms, settlement sources, and resolution criteria

- Work with our compliance, fraud, surveillance, and market operations teams to design the infrastructure to build and surveil event contracts, futures, and perpetuals.

- Draft and own 40.2 and 40.6 filing packages that hold up to CFTC review under the CEA and DCM Core Principles

- Own filings for fees and incentive programs and understand how each affects liquidity and trading

- Run the compliance-review gate

- SLead high-stakes regulatory strategy and represent Polymarket US in complex negotiations with CFTC Division of Market Oversight (DMO) and Division of Clearing and Risk (DCR) staff, defending novel contract structures and preempting formal stays or disapprovals (e.g., Part 40.11 reviews)

- Track listings and filings across the industry and flag what matters for us and why

- Keep templates and the filing catalog current, and use AI and automation to speed up drafting, review, and the filing pipeline

-Architect the regulatory pathways for first-of-their-kind products—including event contracts, crypto derivatives, and perpetuals—translating ambiguous or evolving CEA interpretations into scalable, defensible market frameworks.

-Partner directly with Executive Leadership, Product, and Legal to evaluate commercial trade-offs, advise on regulatory risk appetite for high-profile markets, and inform long-term exchange roadmap decisions.

- 7-12+ years at a DCM, SEF, DCO, FCM, or derivatives firm, or in a legal or regulatory practice serving them

- Hands-on experience with CFTC certifications, rule filings, or exchange rulebooks

- Strong grasp of market structure

- Working knowledge of the CEA, CFTC Part 40, and the DCM Core Principles

- Clear, precise writing for regulators and internal teams

- Ability to balance quality and rigor with speed

- Comfortable using AI tools in day-to-day work

- Smart, reliable, low-ego, high-precision

- JD, or a background in trading or market structure

- Experience with event contracts or prediction markets

- Direct experience working with CFTC staff

- Experience automating document workflows (AI tools, SQL, scripting)

- Why US Filings Lead at Polymarket US?

- A writing sample or paragraph on one of Polymarket US’s public filings and how you would draft it differently.

- Mission: get new markets listed quickly, with filings that are correct, on time, and survive CFTC scrutiny

- What you own: the 40.2/40.6 filing pipeline end to end; the regulatory side of market, fee, and incentive design; templates and the compliance-review gate

- Reports to: Compliance; works day to day with the Markets team

- Location: New York, in office

- Success at 6–12 months: zero filing defects reaching the CFTC; faster turnaround; brought in at the design stage, not the filing stage; templates fully current