Market Curation Editor — Politics at Invisible Tech

A social-predictions app in beta launch is hiring a Politics Market Curation Editor for its Product Data Operations team. An automated pipeline drafts candidate political prediction markets daily; you are the human judgment layer — deciding which go live, sharpening the ones that are nearly right, and catching the markets the pipeline missed entirely.

What You'll Do

• Review a daily queue of system-generated political markets against a fixed completion deadline, working event by event.
• Assess each candidate market for factual accuracy, clarity, and whether resolution criteria can be adjudicated against a named authoritative source (e.g., the AP, official state election boards, certified results) and a defined settlement date.
• Verify open and close timing, including scheduled and unscheduled delays such as runoffs, recounts, and certification delays.
• Apply the correct settlement convention for each event type — election calls and concessions, recounts and certification, runoff triggers, ballot measures, legislative vote counts, and official statistical corrections.
• Confirm policy fit against community standards and content guidelines, escalating anything ambiguous, contested, or politically sensitive.
• Approve, edit, or reject each candidate, recording a structured reason every time — this record is a product deliverable.
• Rewrite questions and resolution language for precision and for how the public and press actually talk about the event.
• Author timestamped clarifications when ambiguity emerges in a live market, and resolve settlement exceptions — contested results, recounts, litigation.
• Run proactive gap scans: monitor live markets for errors and track campaign schedules, polling releases, and political social media for events the pipeline missed.
• Participate in weekly calibration reviews to stay consistent with published guidelines and fellow curators.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years in political trading or prediction markets, political data operations, political/data journalism or editorial, polling and election modeling, or a comparable role requiring current subject-matter expertise.
• Demonstrable current fluency in U.S. politics and elections — following it now, not historically — across federal, state, and major local races.
• Fluency with political media and political social media (campaign accounts, press pool reporting, breaking political news accounts).
• Working knowledge of official election administration and settlement conventions, and of which sources are authoritative for results and vote counts.
• Proven judgment on edge cases: contested results, recounts, litigation, ballot curing, ambiguous or delayed official calls.
• Ability to interpret official sources quickly and reach a defensible determination.
• Exceptional written precision under deadline — unambiguous rules that hold up after the outcome is known.
• Comfort applying a written policy framework, with the instinct to escalate rather than guess on politically sensitive or contested topics.
• Flexible availability for evening and weekend work around debates, primaries, and election nights.

Nice to Have

• Experience trading on or working with political prediction markets or exchanges such as Kalshi or Polymarket.
• Background in polling and election modeling (e.g., FiveThirtyEight during its ABC/ESPN era, Decision Desk HQ, VoteHub) or similar data journalism.
• Prior work on a political trading desk, or standing as a super-user of political prediction apps.
• Political journalism background and/or experience contributing to guidelines, style guides, rulebooks, or annotation standards.
• Familiarity with content policy, moderation frameworks, or editorial standards, particularly around politically sensitive content.

Pay and Schedule

Hourly rate not specified. Contractor role with flexible availability required for evening and weekend work around debates, primaries, and election nights.

Location

Fully remote — worldwide.