Associate, Market Operations

This role sits at the intersection of regulation, surveillance, and operations, helping to safeguard the integrity of prediction markets and ensure they are fair, compliant, and built to scale. The position involves assisting with trade practice surveillance and communicating directly with regulators, contributing to a trusted, future-ready exchange in a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape. The role works closely with engineering, market structures, analytics, product, and external ecosystem partners.

• Manage market activity, including market creation, market configuration, coordinating launch timing, and conducting settlement procedures.
• Provide operational support to Exchange Members on connectivity, market metadata, and market resolution.
• Conduct real-time market surveillance coverage to identify anomalies and escalate trade practice violations.
• Monitor market activity to track KPIs and produce reports for internal analytics.
• Collaborate with the engineering and market structures team on operational requirements for new features and launches.
• Manage the relationship with the Exchange's Clearinghouse partner to ensure timely and accurate funding for Exchange Member accounts.
• Work with ecosystem partners to ensure markets operate smoothly with sufficient liquidity.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work with partners across engineering, regulatory, analytics, and product teams.
• Understanding of market structure, including order book, matching engine, market states, trading dynamics, and market ecosystems.
• High attention to detail and a bias for action when resolving time-sensitive issues.
• Enthusiasm for prediction markets, sports trading, or financial markets.
• Flexibility to provide shift coverage as needed for real-time market surveillance.
• Ability to obtain a gaming licence issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment, where relevant to the role.

• Experience in a trading role is a plus but not required.

• Bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable.
• Guidance through the gaming licence application process where relevant to the role.

DraftKings is a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. AI is becoming an integral part of the company's present and future, powering how work gets done, guiding smarter decisions, and sparking bold ideas, and its teams are energised by innovation and readily embrace emerging technology. As a regulated gaming company, employees may be required to obtain a gaming licence issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment.