Quant Trader, Market Making

About Us Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. We ignite the passions of global sports fans and maximize the presence and reach for our hundreds of sports partners globally by offering products and services across Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, allowing sports fans to Buy, Collect, and Bet. Through the Fanatics platform, sports fans can buy licensed fan gear, jerseys, lifestyle and streetwear products, headwear, and hardgoods; collect physical and digital trading cards, sports memorabilia, and other digital assets; and bet as the company builds its Sportsbook and iGaming platform. Fanatics has an established database of over 100 million global sports fans; a global partner network with approximately 900 sports properties, including major national and international professional sports leagues, players associations, teams, colleges, college conferences and retail partners, 2,500 athletes and celebrities, and 200 exclusive athletes; and over 2,000 retail locations, including its Lids retail stores. Our more than 22,000 employees are committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience and delighting sports fans globally. 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 pricing models to generate real-time fair values for event-driven outcomes Partner with 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 Partner with product, quant, engineering, and compliance teams to launch new markets and contract types What you'll bring Bachelor’s degree or higher in a technical or quantitative discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, Economics). 2+ years of professional trading or modeling experience in fast moving competitive environments such as market making, options/derivatives, prop trading, or sports betting trading Experience integrating data and models into production Strong grasp of trading concepts, with the ability to think critically about uncertainty and model assumptions Python proficiency, including strong…