Quant Trader, Market Making

About the role
Fanatics Markets is Fanatics prediction market platform letting users trade contracts across sports finance economics culture and crypto. Were building out our trading desk to provide liquidity manage risk and ensure tight fair markets across our contract slate. Were looking for a Senior Trader with hands-on market making experience to help scale this function as we expand into new states and asset classes.

What youll do

• Make markets and manage risk across sports and financial prediction contracts
• Design and develop pricing models to generate real-time fair values for event-driven outcomes
• Partner with product and engineering to productionize models for live trading
• Monitor validate and iterate on production models continuously improving predictive accuracy and trading outcomes while ensuring robustness and operational stability of pricing models
• Identify and execute market-take opportunities arising from model insights and prediction-market dynamics
• Design & implement trading strategies to maximise volume and revenue while scaling automated decision-making
• Partner with product quant engineering and compliance teams to launch new markets and contract types

What youll bring

• Bachelors degree or higher in a technical or quantitative discipline (e.g. Mathematics Statistics Computer Science Physics Economics).
• 2 years of professional trading or modeling experience in fast moving competitive environments such as market making options/derivatives prop trading or sports betting trading
• Experience integrating data and models into production
• Strong grasp of trading concepts with the ability to think critically about uncertainty and model assumptions
• Python proficiency including strong experience with data manipulation statistical analysis and automation.
• Passion for and strong understanding of sports and event-driven markets
• Flexibility with working hours to align with global sporting schedules.

Depending on the role your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVEa multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.

For information about our benefits please visithttps:// will change based on country and state of residence which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is addition to the base and bonus full-time employment and more. For information about our benefits please visithttps:// Range

$105600 - $132000 USD