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Head of Product Legal

Polymarket· Legal
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New York$300k - $500kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Head of Product Legal at Polymarket, focusing on integrating legal and regulatory constraints into product decisions for a crypto/derivatives and prediction markets platform. Balances speed and defensibility, partnering with product and engineering to shape roadmap and embed legal thinking from the start.

Responsibilities

  • Review new market categories and product features for regulatory exposure before they launch, and give the product team a clear, actionable answer on what's viable and what isn't.
  • Translate legal and compliance constraints into specific product requirements that engineering can build to, without requiring lawyers in every sprint.
  • Contribute to the overall product roadmap by flagging regulatory risk early and helping prioritize what we build and in what order.
  • Work directly with product managers and engineers to embed legal thinking into the design process from the start, not as a final review gate.
  • Build internal frameworks and guidelines that let the team move faster by making common legal questions answerable without escalation.
  • Monitor the regulatory environment across crypto, derivatives, and prediction markets and bring relevant developments to the product and leadership team before they become problems.
  • Make fast, well-reasoned calls on novel legal risk in real time, owning those decisions and documenting the rationale clearly.

Qualifications

  • JD required. You have practiced law and understand how to construct a legal argument, not just summarize one.
  • 8 or more years of experience at the intersection of legal and product, either in-house at a tech or crypto company or in a regulatory advisory role where you were embedded with a product team.
  • You know how regulators think and what they look for.
  • Prior work in crypto.
  • Comfort operating in a fast-moving environment. You don't need a large team or established playbooks to do your best work.
  • Strong product instincts. You have worked at or with world-class product teams, understand the full surface of a consumer product, and can think in terms of user flows and tradeoffs.
  • (Plus) Direct experience with CFTC regulation or derivatives compliance. If you've dealt with prediction markets, swaps, or event contracts specifically, that's a meaningful edge.

Skills

Required:Legal argumentationProduct-security alignmentRegulatory monitoring
Nice to have:CFTC/regulations

Benefits

  • Competitive salary & equity
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
  • 401k match
  • Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
Last updated Sep 20, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Polymarket

Polymarket | The World's Largest Prediction Market™

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market, allowing you to stay informed and profit from your knowledge by trading on future events across various topics.

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