Defi Liquidity Lead

As a DeFi Liquidity Lead at Polymarket, you'll own relationships with market makers, trading firms, hedge funds, and other institutional partners that drive liquidity across the world's largest prediction market platform. You'll work alongside senior coverage to support Polymarket's most important clients, focusing on liquidity strategy, market microstructure, and scaling liquidity in new and existing markets. This role reports directly to the Head of Institutional Liquidity.

What you'll do

• Own coverage of market maker and institutional client relationships end to end, from initial outreach and onboarding through ongoing engagement, and serve as the reliable point of contact for day-to-day needs
• Identify and onboard new market maker counterparties including crypto-native prop trading firms, traditional HFT shops, and TradFi liquidity providers to expand Polymarket's liquidity provider base
• Represent Polymarket at industry events and client meetings alongside the institutional team
• Synthesize client feedback and relay it internally to product and markets teams
• Monitor market maker performance against quoting requirements, uptime metrics, and market share benchmarks, and deliver accurate, timely monthly performance reporting
• Help structure incentive programs that reward genuine liquidity depth in core, high-volume markets rather than superficial coverage of illiquid ones
• Track competitive dynamics to keep Polymarket's market maker economics competitive without overpaying for liquidity
• Work with Data and Engineering to build dashboards tracking quoting depth, spread width, and uptime in real time

What you bring

• 7+ years in a client-facing role in financial services such as institutional sales support, prime brokerage, trading operations, or capital markets
• Fluency in conversations with market makers, trading firms, and institutional investors; you understand how they operate
• High organizational skills and responsiveness; clients trust you to follow through
• Ownership mentality and readiness to run your own book from day one
• Strong communication skills, clear and direct in writing and in person
• Strong experience with trading, market structure, or financial products so you can hold your own in technical conversations
• Self-starter mentality; you identify what needs to get done and do it without waiting to be asked
• Comfort working cross-functionally with product, legal, compliance, and operations to close deals

Nice to have

• Experience at a crypto exchange, digital asset prime broker, or fintech serving institutional clients
• Familiarity with market making, liquidity provision, or electronic trading
• Understanding of prediction markets, information markets, or alternative data
• Experience coordinating institutional onboarding across legal and compliance

What we offer

• Base salary of $200,000 to $250,000 annually, plus equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Full health, vision, and dental coverage
• 401k match
• Hardware setup including a new MacBook Pro, large display, and accessories

About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform, enabling individuals to trade on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized house, the platform aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities and saw $21B in volume in 2025.