As a Lead Analyst, you will optimize trading analytics by assessing exchange performance, developing analytical frameworks, and collaborating with teams to enhance trading strategies and customer experience.
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The Crown Is Yours
As a Lead Analyst on the Trading Analytics team, you will play a key role in understanding and optimizing how DraftKings participates across prediction-market-style exchanges. You'll partner closely with trading, product, data science, and engineering to evaluate exchange performance, monitor liquidity, and build analytical frameworks that guide our strategy. Your work will strengthen execution quality, pricing consistency, and overall marketplace health.
What you'll do as Lead Analyst, Trading Analytics
What you'll bring
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We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is 121,000.00 USD - 151,300.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
The Crown Is Yours
As a Lead Analyst on the Trading Analytics team, you will play a key role in understanding and optimizing how DraftKings participates across prediction-market-style exchanges. You'll partner closely with trading, product, data science, and engineering to evaluate exchange performance, monitor liquidity, and build analytical frameworks that guide our strategy. Your work will strengthen execution quality, pricing consistency, and overall marketplace health.
What you'll do as Lead Analyst, Trading Analytics
- Assess trading exchange performance by analyzing post-fill customer behavior, latency impacts, and where there might be delays or inefficiencies.
- Build analytical frameworks that simplify exchange dynamics into clear, repeatable metrics that guide trading decisions.
- Map our liquidity footprint across exchanges, including contract coverage, trading volumes, and performance trends.
- Partner with sports traders and trading operations to diagnose issues, improve liquidity allocation, enhance pricing accuracy, and elevate customer experience.
- Develop dashboards and reporting that provide real-time visibility into exchange quality and our performance across trading environments.
- Deliver insights that inform how we allocate liquidity, structure quoting behavior, and evolve our exchange participation strategy.
What you'll bring
- At least 5 years of experience in analytics or data science. Experience within sportsbook trading, prediction markets, or financial market microstructure is a plus.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, Business Analytics, or another relevant discipline.
- Ability to take on complicated problems and turn them into simple, analytical frameworks.
- High proficiency in SQL, Excel, and Tableau (or similar visualization tools).
- Experience with R, Python, or another statistical programming language is a plus.
- Familiarity with exchange dynamics such as order books, liquidity, fills, and execution quality is a plus.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, results-driven environment.
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Join Our Team
We're a publicly traded (NASDAQ: DKNG) technology company headquartered in Boston. As a regulated gaming company, you may be required to obtain a gaming license issued by the appropriate state agency as a condition of employment. Don't worry, we'll guide you through the process if this is relevant to your role.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is 121,000.00 USD - 151,300.00 USD, plus bonus, equity, and benefits as applicable. Our ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The compensation information displayed on each job posting reflects the range for new hire pay rates for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific pay range and how that was determined during the hiring process. It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.
Top Skills
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Python
R
SQL
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