Market Curation Editor – Politics

Invisible Technologies

. Review a daily queue of system-generated political markets against a fixed completion deadline.

Posted 10/1/2026full-timeRemoteMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in political trading and prediction markets, with a strong understanding of U.S. politics and elections. Capable of applying settlement conventions and ensuring factual accuracy under tight deadlines while maintaining clarity and precision in written communication.

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Political Trading ExpertiseU.S. Politics FluencyElection Administration KnowledgeExceptional Written PrecisionJudgment on Contested Results

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Hard Skills

Political Data OperationsElection ModelingSettlement ConventionsPolling AnalysisFactual Accuracy AssessmentQuestion RewritingTimestamped ClarificationsMarket Monitoring

Soft Skills

JudgmentAttention to DetailFlexibility

Tools & Technologies

Political MediaSocial Media Monitoring

Industry Keywords

Election CertificationRecount ProceduresBallot MeasuresLegislative Vote CountsCommunity Standards

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Review a daily queue of system-generated political markets against a fixed completion deadline.
Assess candidate markets for factual accuracy, clarity, authoritative resolution sources, and defined settlement dates.
Verify open and close timing, including delays involving runoffs, recounts, and certification.
Apply settlement conventions for election calls, concessions, recounts, certification, runoff triggers, ballot measures, legislative vote counts, and official corrections.
Confirm policy fit against community standards and content guidelines, escalating ambiguous or sensitive cases.
Approve, edit, or reject candidates and record structured reasons.
Rewrite questions and resolution language for precision.
Author timestamped clarifications and resolve settlement exceptions involving contested results, recounts, and litigation.
Monitor live markets, campaign schedules, polling releases, and political and press social media for errors and uncaptured events.
Participate in weekly calibration reviews.

Requirements

What you’ll need

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 across federal, state, and major local races.
Fluency with political media and political social media.
Working knowledge of official election administration and settlement conventions, including certification timelines, recount thresholds, runoff triggers, Electoral College mechanics where relevant, and authoritative sources for results and vote counts.
Proven judgment on contested results, recounts, litigation, ballot curing, and ambiguous or delayed official calls.
Ability to interpret official sources quickly and reach a defensible determination.
Exceptional written precision under deadline; ability to write unambiguous rules.
Comfort applying a written policy framework and escalating politically sensitive or contested topics rather than guessing.
Flexible availability for evening and weekend work around debates, primaries, and election nights.