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Market Analyst
Contract type
Ongoing
Work mode
Remote · Europe
Experience
3 years
Job description
A hybrid research/strategy role tracking crypto prediction markets and perpetual futures to turn market understanding into business and product opportunities for Pyth. The analyst monitors markets and trader communities, researches users, and produces research reports that drive decisions.
At a glance
- Employment
- Full-time
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- Track news, launches, and structural shifts across prediction markets and perpetual futures
- Monitor the conversations where traders are active, including X, Discord servers, Telegram groups, and other trader communities, to spot sentiment shifts and emerging trends early
- Follow volumes, open interest, funding rates, and market share across major venues
- Connect recent events to their impact on Pyth and share timely takeaways with the team
- Maintain a current view of the competitive landscape, including oracles and data providers serving these markets
- Research prediction market and perps protocols to understand how they use price data
- Map who our users are, what they need, and where current solutions fall short
- Build dashboards and datasets the team can use to follow these markets
- Turn research findings into concrete product ideas for Pyth
- Size opportunities using market and on-chain data
- Work with product, engineering, and BD to prioritize and pressure-test ideas
- Track how launched initiatives perform against the original thesis
- Write clear, convincing research reports for internal and external audiences
- Present findings and recommendations to leadership
- Build a repeatable research process the team can rely on
What we're looking for
- Background as an analyst at a crypto research firm or in a research/data role at a perps exchange or prediction market
- Deep understanding of prediction market and perpetual futures market structure
- Active in trader communities and comfortable picking up signal from X, Discord, and Telegram
- Proficient with data analysis tools (SQL, Python, Dune or similar)
- Strong writer with a track record of research that drives decisions
- Analytical and a self-starter, comfortable owning a research agenda independently
- Comfortable with startup pace and evolving scope
Your team
Technical Operations
A well-rounded team: half tech whizzes, the other half excel in building partnerships with institutional clients, prime brokers, and the global financial infrastructure community. The role reports to the Head of Technical Operations.
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About Douro Labs
Key facts
- Team is spread across the globe, from the US and South America to Europe and Asia
- Digital-first organization where remote work is the norm
What they value
- Curiosity
- Rigor