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VP, Trading
Location
Florida
Posted
145 days ago
Salary
Not specified
English
Job Description
• Build and lead a best-in-class team responsible for core sports pricing, market making, derivative markets, SGPs, and risk positioning
• Lead execution of pricing strategy across all market types with focus on competitiveness, accuracy, and profitability
• Act as the key customer and partner to internal product, data science, and engineering teams responsible for building pricing models
• Understand, validate, and challenge model outputs, while maintaining an open, solution-oriented mindset
• Ensure pricing logic aligns with real-world trading conditions, edge cases, and market movement
• Provide structured, data-driven feedback to improve model performance and automation quality
• Own market positioning strategies across sports, ensuring pricing aligns with trading goals and customer maximization
• Manage exposure and risk limits in real time, adjusting strategy in response to betting patterns and volatility
• Develop frameworks to flag and respond to mispricing, inefficiencies, or liability spikes
• Be an authority on the industry’s regulatory terrain and responsible gambling policies
• Champion scalable trading practices by driving automation where possible across pricing, margining, and market management
• Identify friction points in current workflows and collaborate with product/engineering to prioritize trading tool enhancements
• Build a roadmap for the future of automated market making with trading input at its core
• Collaborate with Customer Optimization, Analysis, Trading, and Event Control teams to align on execution and exposure strategies
• Act as a senior voice in sportsbook leadership, contributing to planning, product feedback, and innovation initiatives
• Ensure your team’s decisions and processes are aligned with state-level compliance frameworks
Job Requirements
- Significant experience in sportsbook trading or price origination, with a strong track record of owning markets and driving performance
- Deep knowledge of professional and college sports, pricing theory, market making, and risk exposure management
- Proven ability to work cross-functionally with tech, product, and quant teams
- An outstanding leader. An inspirational mentor to your team, cultivating and enabling talent to flourish
- Strong analytical and data fluency; comfortable validating pricing logic and understanding model assumptions
- Commercially minded and open to evolving how both technology and human expertise can be harnessed for the optimal outcomes
- Excellent communicator, able to challenge thinking constructively and lead through change
Benefits
- Competitive pay and benefits
- Flexible vacation allowance
- Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
- A vibrant, collaborative office-based environment designed to foster a high-energy, high-performance trading culture
- The chance to build and mentor a close-knit team where energy, accountability, and ambition are celebrated
- Opportunity help shape the future strategy of the Sportsbook Roster of Uniques
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