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Market Analyst
Contract type
Part-time
Work mode
Hybrid
Experience
3 years
Job description
A part-time role (15-20 hours a week) reporting to the CEO, deciding which markets Proto lists and ensuring each is built on trustworthy data. The role turns active equities trading and research expertise into tradeable markets.
At a glance
- Employment
- Part-time
- Work mode
- Hybrid
What you'll do
- Recommend which markets we list, sizing demand, checking reporting frequency and deciding whether each metric is a clean number to trade, ending with a clear list/don't-list call and why
- Research company, sector and macro metrics that traders care about
- Vet the data source for every market, naming the official source (10-Q/10-K, earnings release, EIA, Census and so on) and checking completeness, accuracy, timeliness, revisions and a fallback if it's late; escalate anything unclear instead of guessing
- Write the settlement rules, defining the metric, the release schedule and how the market settles so two people reading it can't reach different answers, and deciding in advance what happens if a figure is restated or delayed
- Run the release calendar, keeping the earnings and data-release calendar for every listed market, being on hand around each release and confirming the reported figure before settlement
- Monitor performance and constantly assess priors by analyzing market and volume data, on-chain and off-chain trading activity, and social data for the assets behind each theme, to decide which markets to list next and which aren't working
- Support the team from time to time, working with leadership, design and marketing to advise on market positioning and on product and go-to-market strategy
What we're looking for
- You are an active equities trader who trades stocks regularly and does fundamentals-based research before putting on a position
- You've built your own valuations, down to calculating P/E ratios, and can talk through a recent trade: the thesis, the catalyst, and what the earnings print did to it
- You know consensus versus actual, guidance, and how segment revenue is reported
- You're constantly on X, following the state of the world and developments across industries, and always on top of the news
- You're enmeshed in trading communities and understand everyone from sophisticated traders to Robinhood degens
- You're familiar with options and futures
- Research depth: you go past the headline number to the filing, the footnotes and the methodology, can tell an authoritative source from a convenient one, and escalate uncertainty instead of guessing
- Intense AI workflows: you build your own AI workflows for research, data pulls and analysis and use them every day
- Strong with data: advanced spreadsheets required; SQL or Python preferred at a working level
- Precise writing, clear enough that a market's rules leave no room for argument
- US hours, with availability around major earnings dates and data releases
Nice to have
- Professional experience on the buy side or sell side, in equity research, on a trading desk, in investment banking or in corporate finance
- You actively trade on-chain (perps or prediction markets), not just follow crypto
- Coverage of semiconductors, AI infrastructure, energy or defense
- Experience building KPI models or consensus estimates
Benefits
- Competitive salary and equity calibrated to seniority and location
- Hybrid/remote options available, with team off-sites
- Top-tier hardware, whatever else helps you ship
- News, data and AI subscriptions you need to do your job
- Small flat team, fast decisions
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About Proto
Making the world's biggest macro themes directly tradable for the first time
Proto is making the world's biggest macro themes directly tradable for the first time: data center growth, AI capex, GPU manufacturing, US foreign arms sales, as easy as trading on Robinhood. Private mainnet beta on Solana launching EOY 2026. We're building a new market mechanism designed to improve how markets handle a broader range of market outcomes, enabling more continuous price discovery through a novel market structure, creating a more efficient and intuitive trading experience while enabling 10-20x leverage.
Key facts
- Private mainnet beta on Solana launching EOY 2026
- Built by a veteran ex-Phantom team (VP Product at Ondo, Quant Research at Citadel, experience leading teams at Google, Pinterest, Facebook, and Carta)
- Raised seed round from a tier 1 crypto investor and Coinbase Ventures
- Early angels include the founders of Phantom, Jito, Pendle, Goldsky, Meld, and SimpleHash
Partners & customers
Coinbase Ventures