Market Curation Editor – Politics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants anywhere in the world.

📋 Description

• Evaluate a daily queue of system-generated political markets while adhering to a set completion deadline.

• Analyze candidate markets for factual correctness, clarity, authoritative resolution sources, and specified settlement dates.

• Confirm the timing of openings and closings, including any delays related to runoffs, recounts, and certification processes.

• Implement settlement conventions for election calls, concessions, recounts, certification, runoff triggers, ballot measures, legislative vote counts, and official corrections.

• Ensure alignment with community standards and content guidelines, escalating any ambiguous or sensitive cases.

• Approve, edit, or reject candidate submissions while documenting structured justifications.

• Revise questions and resolution language for accuracy and clarity.

• Produce timestamped clarifications and address settlement exceptions involving disputed results, recounts, and legal challenges.

• Keep an eye on live markets, campaign schedules, polling releases, and political and press social media to identify errors and unrecorded events.

• Engage in weekly calibration reviews.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of experience in political trading or prediction markets, political data operations, political or data journalism, polling and election modeling, or a similar role requiring up-to-date subject-matter expertise.

• Proven current fluency in U.S. politics and elections at the federal, state, and significant local levels.

• Familiarity with political media and social media platforms related to politics.

• Solid understanding of official election administration and settlement conventions, including certification timelines, recount thresholds, runoff triggers, and relevant Electoral College mechanics, along with authoritative sources for results and vote counts.

• Demonstrated sound judgment regarding contested results, recounts, litigation, ballot curing, and ambiguous or delayed official calls.

• Capacity to swiftly interpret official sources and arrive at a defensible conclusion.

• Outstanding written precision under tight deadlines; skill in drafting clear and unambiguous rules.

• Comfort in applying a written policy framework and escalating politically sensitive or contested issues instead of making assumptions.

• Flexible availability for evening and weekend work during debates, primaries, and election nights.

🏝️ Benefits

• Opportunity to work in a dynamic environment at the forefront of political analysis.

• Collaborate with a team of experts in the field.

• Access to professional development and training programs.

• Competitive salary and comprehensive benefits package.