Senior Trader, Market Making

Denverfull timeOn Site

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$132k–$165k

H1B: no

Fanaticsfbg Senior Trader, Market Making at Fanatics Markets manages risk and makes markets across sports and financial prediction contracts. The role involves designing models for real-time fair values, partnering with quants and engineers, and developing trading strategies to maximize volume and revenue.

Responsibilities

Fanatics Markets is Fanatics' prediction market platform, letting users trade contracts across sports, finance, economics, culture, and crypto. We're building out our trading desk to provide liquidity, manage risk, and ensure tight, fair markets across our contract slate. We're looking for a Senior Trader with hands-on market making experience to help scale this function as we expand into new states and asset classes.
Make markets and manage risk across sports and financial prediction contracts
Design and develop models to generate real-time fair values for event-driven outcomes
Partner with quants, product and engineering to productionize models for live trading
Monitor, validate, and iterate on production models, continuously improving predictive accuracy and trading outcomes while ensuring robustness and operational stability of pricing models
Identify and execute market-take opportunities arising from model insights and prediction-market dynamics
Design & implement trading strategies to maximise volume and revenue while scaling automated decision-making
Manage forecasting along with P&L reporting
Monitor exposure limits and escalate risk issues.
Partner with product, quant, engineering, and compliance teams to launch new markets and contract types
Help mentor junior traders and shape trading desk processes as the team grows
What you'll bring

Qualification

Required

Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical or quantitative discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Economics)
5+ years of professional trading experience in market making, options/derivatives, prop trading, or sports betting trading
Experience with prediction or financial markets — market structure, pricing mechanics