Senior Technical Program Manager
Listed on 2026-02-07
-
IT/Tech
Systems Engineer
About Polymarket
About Polymarket Polymarket is the world’s largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized “house,” Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.
We’re growing fast – both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.
The RolePolymarket is looking for a Senior Technical Program Manager to bring structure and execution rigor to a fast-moving engineering organization. You ll coordinate across our engineering teams, making sure cross-functional initiatives ship on time while building the systems and processes we need to scale. This is a foundational hire. We ve grown quickly and don t have formal PM processes yet.
You re not coming in to run a playbook. You re coming in to write one.
- Delivery & Execution:
Drive end-to-end delivery of technical initiatives across backend services, infrastructure, and consumer-facing features. Own timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment for our highest-priority projects. - Cross-Team Coordination:
Be the central point of coordination across engineering, product, and leadership. Find blockers before they become problems. Keep teams aligned on priorities and sequencing. - Process & Systems Building:
Design and implement the frameworks, rituals, and tooling that give us visibility into what s shipping and what s stuck, without adding bureaucracy for its own sake. - Technical Translation:
Bridge product vision and engineering execution. You ll need to understand our architecture well enough to scope work and manage dependencies across teams. - Documentation & Knowledge Management:
Set standards for technical documentation and decision records that actually get used. Make it possible to work async and preserve what we learn. - Stakeholder Communication:
Own communication with leadership and cross-functional partners. Clear, actionable updates on status, risks, and tradeoffs. - Team Development:
As we grow, help build out the program management function. This may include hiring and mentoring additional TPMs.
- 4+ years in technical program or project management, with time at early-stage startups scaling engineering teams (think 10 → 50+ engineers)
- Consumer fintech or trading platform experience. You ve shipped products where real money, real-time systems, and user trust are on the line
- Track record of building PM processes from scratch, not just operating within existing frameworks.
- Technical depth. You can read a spec, understand architecture tradeoffs, and hold your own with engineers. Prior engineering experience is a big plus
- Strong organizational and communication skills. You bring structure to chaos and write updates people actually read
- Familiarity with Linear, Notion, or similar tools. Opinions about what good project management looks like are welcome
- (Plus) Experience at prediction markets, sports betting platforms, or trading exchanges
- (Plus) Crypto/DeFi familiarity, including understanding of blockchain mechanics and on-chain systems
- (Plus) Smart contract exposure and ability to scope work involving contract development or audits
- (Plus) Background in market microstructure, liquidity systems, or order matching
- Competitive salary & meaningful equity
- Unlimited PTO, Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup — new Mac Book Pro, big display, & accessories.
(If this job is in fact in your jurisdiction, then you may be using a Proxy or VPN to access this site, and to progress further, you should change your connectivity to another mobile device or PC).