Head of Product, Legal

Polymarket Inc.

Job Overview

Location

New York

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• As Head of Product, Legal, you will be the person who keeps us moving fast without stepping on landmines.
• You will sit between the legal and product functions and work daily with product and engineering.
• Your job is to be the first filter on new market categories, new product surfaces, and new features before they ship.
• You will make calls, document your reasoning, and be an advocate for both the product experience and regulatory considerations.
• Speed and defensibility both matter here, but you should hate paralysis by analysis.
• We need someone who has seen enough of crypto compliance and financial regulation to recognize exposure early, translate it into product constraints the team can act on, and help us build things that hold up as scrutiny increases.
• If you want to do traditional legal work, this is the wrong role. If you want to be in the room where product decisions get made and be the person who defines what we can and can't build, this is for you.
• 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.

🎯 Requirements

• JD required.
• 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.
• Strong product instincts.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary & equity
• Unlimited PTO
• Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
• 401k match
• Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

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About Polymarket Inc.

Polymarket is a decentralized prediction market platform that allows users to trade on the outcomes of future events. Operating on blockchain technology, it enables individuals to bet on a wide range of topics, including politics, current events, and cryptocurrency. The platform facilitates transparent and trustless trading by leveraging smart contracts, ensuring that payouts are automatically executed based on verified event resolutions. Polymarket aims to democratize information and provide a novel way for people to engage with and profit from their insights into the future, fostering a global community of informed predictors.

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