Senior Director Business Operations
Polymarket· Operations
New York$350k - $450k + equityFull-timePosted 4w ago
About the role
Senior leadership role owning planning, performance metrics, cross-functional programs, and operational execution to scale Polymarket’s BizOps function and turn strategy into execution.
Responsibilities
- Own the annual and quarterly planning cycles, including OKR-setting, long-range planning, and quarterly business reviews with exec and functional leadership
- Run weekly and monthly business reviews, building dashboards, scorecards, and reporting infrastructure for leadership to track performance and make decisions
- Scope and stand up net-new initiatives from new market entry to partnership structures to internal pilots, and see them through to operational handoff
- Act as the connective tissue across product, engineering, sales, marketing, and finance on programs where no single function owns the outcome end-to-end
- Unblock stalled cross-functional work by diagnosing root causes, resolving prioritization conflicts, and driving decisions when teams are stuck
- Prepare briefing documents, decision memos, and exec and board materials for high-stakes decisions
- Identify operational inefficiencies across the business and build playbooks and processes to reduce reliance on tribal knowledge
Qualifications
- 10+ years of experience in BizOps, Strategy and Operations, or a Chief of Staff function, with at least 3 years in a leadership role managing teams or programs at significant scale
- Demonstrated track record of building cross-functional operating processes from scratch, including planning cycles, business reviews, and metrics infrastructure
- Strong analytical foundation, including forecasting, unit economics, cohort analysis, and variance analysis against plan, with fluency in SQL or willingness to get there fast
- Experience managing complex, multi-stakeholder programs with influence but not direct authority over people doing the work
- Clear, structured written communication; ability to write tight decision memos or board slides without needing verbal explanation
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and ability to scope problems handed with no existing owner
- (Plus) Experience at a high-growth technology company or marketplace, especially in regulated or novel industries
- (Plus) Exposure to financial products, trading platforms, or consumer apps with real-time data and complex user behavior
Skills
Required:Planning cycles (annual/quarterly)Executive reporting & memo writingCross-functional collaborationAnalytics & forecasting
Nice to have:SQL
Benefits
- Competitive salary & equity
- Unlimited PTO
- Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
- 401k match
- Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
Last updated Oct 4, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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