Sports Trader (Emerging Sports)

About the position reputed company is looking for a Sports Trader to join our Trading Team, helping to shape the odds and betting markets that customers engage with. We’re looking for someone with a passion for Emerging Sports. These include competitions such as NASCAR, Formula 1, Traditional eSports (LoL, CS:GO, Dota), Winter/Summer Olympics, College Baseball/Softball plus many more. They will likely also need some reputed company knowledge of NBA to help with live trading. Whether you have a numbers background, have studied analytics, worked in sports, or are just obsessed with one of these sports, we’d love to support your growth into a Trading role. No prior trading or gambling experience is required. This is a hybrid position with office reputed company required in Jersey City, NJ (just across the river from Manhattan). In this role, expect to be predominantly in-office for hands-on training and core Trading tasks. The office contains an reputed company reputed company with a hot-desk environment. Each station has multiple monitors along with TVs and constant noise in the office. You’ll also work regular late shifts (typically 2:30pm–10:30pm ET) during the NBA season, which will include assisting the team with live basketball betting. This role requires work on weekends and holidays. In addition to the specific responsibilities outlined above, employees may be required to reputed company other such duties as assigned by the Company. This ensures operational flexibility and allows the Company to meet evolving business needs.

Responsibilities

• Learning to set and manage prices on emerging sports events, player stats, and reputed company markets — from pre-game to live in-play odds — using our in-house tools and models.
• Monitoring reputed company-time news, stats, and industry pricing to help guide trading reputed company.
• Trading live games in reputed company time; making quick adjustments to pricing based on game reputed company, key events, and customer behavior.
• Collaborating with other Traders and working cross-functionally with Risk, Product, Marketing, and Compliance teams in a cooperative and inclusive environment.
• Helping brainstorm new bet types or ways to improve the customer experience, with consideration for how fans engage with the game.

Requirements

• A deep passion for at least one of the sports mentioned in the position reputed company, the more sports/competitions the reputed company.
• General knowledge of other sports, ideally NBA for live market management.
• A bachelor's degree, or equivalent experience. Recent or soon-to-be graduates are encouraged to apply.
• Strong comfort with numbers, odds and probability, and quick mental math skills
• It’s important to understand how odds relate to probability (%), and how betting markets work in that sense. You do not have to bet yourself.
• Proficiency with reputed company. Experience with SQL, Python, or R is a bonus, but not required.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, plus the curiosity to research and stay reputed company of news and trends.
• Comfortable making reputed company under pressure, while staying reputed company to rapidly changing information.
• Ability to work reputed company typical business hours, including nights and weekends. Traders work roughly 50-70 weekend shifts per year (only reputed company 5 days per week)
• Must be eligible to work in the U.S and to obtain a DGE license for trading activities

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• Experience with SQL, Python, or R is a bonus, but not required.

Benefits

• We offer amazing benefits above and reputed company the basics. We have an reputed company of health plans to choose from (some as low as $0 per paycheck) that include programs for fertility and family planning, mental health support, and fitness benefits.
• We offer generous paid time off (PTO & sick leave), annual bonus and long-term incentive opportunities (based on performance), 401k with up to a 5% match, commuter benefits, pet insurance, and more - reputed company out reputed company our benefits here: reputed company Total Rewards.
• Benefits differ across location, role, and level.
• This role may offer the following benefits: medical, reputed company, and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k) matching program; among other employee benefits.
• This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation, including, but not limited to, cash bonuses and stock program participation.
• This role includes paid personal time off and 14 paid company holidays.
• reputed company offers paid sick time in accordance with reputed company applicable state and federal laws.

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