Market Curation Editor — Politics
Core
Human judgment layer for an automated pipeline that drafts candidate political prediction markets, deciding which go live, sharpening accuracy, and catching missed markets.
Role type
Senior IC market curation editor (politics)
Builds
Live political prediction markets for a social-predictions app
Domain
Politics, elections, prediction markets
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
U.S. politics and elections fluency, political media and social media fluency, official election administration and settlement conventions, judgment on edge cases (contested results, recounts, litigation), rapid interpretation of official sources, exceptional written precision under deadline, policy framework application
Preferred skills
Experience trading on political prediction markets (Kalshi, Polymarket), background in polling and election modeling (FiveThirtyEight, Decision Desk HQ), political journalism background, familiarity with content policy and moderation frameworks
Technologies
Kalshi, Polymarket
Responsibilities
Review daily queue of system-generated political markets against deadlines, assess candidate markets for factual accuracy and adjudicable resolution criteria, verify open/close timing for events including runoffs and recounts, apply correct settlement conventions for various political events, confirm policy fit and escalate ambiguous or sensitive content, approve/edit/reject markets with structured reasons, rewrite questions and resolution language for precision, author timestamped clarifications and resolve settlement exceptions, run proactive gap scans for errors and uncaptured events, participate in weekly calibration reviews
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
