Quantitative Analyst – Sports betting and prediction markets

Prediction markets is a hot topic right now, use your passion for mathematics, technology and sports and join this growing sports arm of a global quantitative trading firm.

A backbone of game theory, you'll have access to a world leading platform here. You'll provide liquidity to bookmakers, take risk on the centralised sports book and builds statistical forecasting models for your specialised area of sports coverage, you’ll be working with the founders across all major sports markets.

You’ll work closely with founders who are capitalising on the use of prediction markets within traditional finance while working collaboratively with the research team to build and use a range of proprietary prediction models and your own intuition for sniffing out trading opportunities. You’ll also appreciate the risk involved so that trades are made with game theory at the heart of them.

Above all else, you’ll need to have a strong quantitative background - there is multiple headcount here so straight from academia with side projects in sports betting or if you're a seasoned professional looking for an enhanced platform to utilising your models would be great.

Typically that’ll mean you’ve got a great background in probability and statistics – likely a degree with strong mathematics or statistics content – you’re a Bayesian thinker and to mention it again, you love game theory. It would be great if you’ve written some code in Python or Java and it would be even better if you’ve had any kind of trading experience, especially if it’s covering EU or UK sports (specific or broad).

Want to be part of the future of sports betting? Tired of being under compensated in sports betting consultancies? Get in touch.

No up-to-date CV required.