Quantitative Analyst – Sports betting and prediction markets

Overview

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. You’ll provide liquidity to bookmakers, take risk on the centralised sports book and build 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 utilise your models would be great.