Market Curation Editor — Politics

Accountabilities:: Market Review & Verification: Evaluate a daily queue of system-generated political prediction markets against strict deadlines, assessing factual accuracy, clarity, and unambiguous resolution criteria linked to named authoritative sources. Settlement Conventions: Apply precise resolution rules across diverse political events, including election calls, concession timing, recounts, runoff triggers, ballot measures, legislative vote counts, and official statistical corrections. Timeline & Event Management: Verify and adjust open and close timing for political events, accounting for scheduled and unscheduled delays such as recounts, runoff elections, and certification hold-ups. Clarifications & Exception Handling: Author timestamped clarifications for live markets experiencing ambiguity and resolve settlement exceptions that automated data feeds cannot process (e.g., contested results or litigation). Proactive Gap Scanning: Continuously monitor live markets for errors while tracking campaign schedules, polling releases, and political press feeds to identify and draft missed political events. Editorial Consistency: Approve, edit, or reject candidate markets while recording structured reasoning for every decision, participating in weekly calibration reviews to maintain platform-wide standards. Requirements: Domain Experience: 3+ years of professional experience in political trading/prediction markets, political data operations, political or data journalism, polling, or election modeling. U.S. Political Fluency: Deep, current fluency in real-time U.S. politics and elections across federal, state, and major local races, combined with strong familiarity with political media ecosystems. Election Mechanics: Solid working knowledge of official election administration, certification timelines, recount thresholds, runoff triggers, and authoritative result sources. Edge-Case Judgment: Proven ability to make defensible decisions on edge cases, such as contested results, litigation, ballot curing, and delayed official calls. Written Precision: Exceptional written communication skills under tight deadline pressure, with the ability to write unambiguous resolution rules that hold up post-outcome. Policy & Escalation Instincts: Comfort working within structured content policy frameworks, with the clear instinct to escalate ambiguous or politically sensitive topics rather than guess. Flexible Availability: Willingness to work flexible hours, including evenings and weekends around major political events, debates, primaries, and election nights. Benefits: 100% Remote Flexibility: Complete location independence. Competitive Compensation: Attractive compensation package aligned with your specialized political domain expertise. High-Impact Domain: Direct, high-visibility role in shaping the accuracy, transparency, and quality of real-time prediction markets. Collaborative Culture: Join a dynamic, high-trust digital environment working alongside experienced data operations and editorial specialists. Professional Exposure: Opportunities to engage with cutting-edge data operations tools, AI-assisted pipelines, and sophisticated market settlement frameworks.