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Remote
Mid Level
Full Time
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Requirements
- •3+ years in political trading or prediction markets, political data operations, political/data journalism or editorial, polling and election modeling, or comparable role
- •Demonstrable current fluency in U.S. politics and elections across federal, state, and major local races
- •Fluency with political media and political social media
- •Working knowledge of official election administration and settlement conventions
- •Proven judgment on edge cases such as contested results, recounts, litigation, ambiguous or delayed official calls
- •Ability to interpret official sources quickly and reach a defensible determination
- •Exceptional written precision under deadline
- •Comfort applying a written policy framework and escalating rather than guessing
- •Flexible availability for evening and weekend work around debates, primaries, and election nights
What You'll Do
- •Review a daily queue of system-generated political markets against a fixed completion deadline
- •Assess each candidate market for factual accuracy, clarity, and whether the resolution criteria can be adjudicated against authoritative sources
- •Verify that open and close timing is correct for the underlying event, including delays
- •Apply the correct settlement convention for the type of political event
- •Confirm policy fit against community standards and content guidelines, escalating ambiguous or sensitive cases
- •Approve, edit, or reject each candidate, recording a structured reason
- •Rewrite questions and resolution language for precision
- •Author timestamped clarifications when ambiguity emerges and resolve settlement exceptions
- •Run proactive gap scans monitoring live markets and political events
- •Participate in weekly calibration reviews to stay consistent with guidelines
Nice to Have
- •Direct experience trading on or working with political prediction markets or exchanges such as Kalshi or Polymarket
- •Background in polling and election modeling or data-journalism experience
- •Prior work on a political trading desk or as a super-user of political prediction apps
- •Political journalism background and/or experience contributing to guidelines, style guides, rulebooks, or annotation standards
- •Familiarity with content policy, moderation frameworks, or editorial standards around politically sensitive content
