About the role
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.
What you'll do
- 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
- 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, and liquidity dynamics
- Experience managing a live book under time pressure, with sound risk discipline
- Strong grasp of trading concepts, with the ability to think critically about uncertainty and model assumptions
- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with traders, product and engineering teams
- Familiarity with CFTC-regulated markets, exchanges, or clearing houses
- Interest in sports and event-driven markets
Depending on the role, your interview and onboarding experience may include in-person components, such as onsite interviews or Launching into Better: LIVE—a multi-day cultural immersion in New York City for full-time, non-seasonal hires. These sessions are designed to build connection and bring our culture to life, though specific travel and participation requirements will be confirmed based on your role and location. Your recruiter will provide clear guidance at each stage of the process.
For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
Ranges will change based on country and state of residence, which are reflected in Geographical Zones defined by Fanatics Betting and Gaming. The range incorporates all of our Geographical Compensation Zones and is subject to change as the Zone associated with the actual offer is confirmed. In addition to the base and bonus, full-time employment, and more. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical or quantitative discipline such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, or Economics
- 5+ years of professional trading experience in market making, options or derivatives, proprietary trading, or sports betting trading
- Experience with prediction or financial markets, including market structure, pricing mechanics, and liquidity dynamics
- Experience managing a live book under time pressure with sound risk discipline
- Strong understanding of trading concepts and the ability to critically evaluate uncertainty and model assumptions
- Strong communication skills and ability to work cross-functionally with traders, product, and engineering teams
- Familiarity with CFTC-regulated markets, exchanges, or clearing houses
- Interest in sports and event-driven markets
Fanatics Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Fanatics and has not been reviewed or approved by Fanatics.
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Strong & Reliable Incentives — Incentives like annual bonuses and overtime opportunities are common, supporting higher total compensation especially in corporate roles. Seasonal premiums and performance bonuses are also cited across roles.
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Healthcare Strength — Multiple medical plan options, mental-health services, and wellness programs are highlighted as core offerings. Additional supports like HSAs/FSAs and condition management further strengthen the health package.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid maternity and paternity leave, fertility benefits, adoption assistance, and gender-affirmation coverage are explicitly included. Childcare support and backup care resources are also referenced.
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What We Do
Transforming the licensed sports industry through an innovative vertical e-commerce model that allows Fanatics to quickly design, manufacture and distribute high-quality fan gear across retail channels, better serving the real-time expectations of leagues, teams, fans and retailers in today’s mobile-first, on-demand culture.
Why Work With Us
You don't have to love sports to work here (though we love sports fanatics as well!). Fanatics is an industry leading, multi-billion dollar, international, privately held company with a casual, lofty space in the heart of Downtown Boulder. We have the advantages of a startup, without the pitfalls.
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