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Market Curation Editor (Sports) | Contractor | Worldwide Remote Join a fast-moving Product Data Operations team supporting a new social-predictions app in beta launch. As a Market Curation Editor specializing in Sports, you'll serve as the critical human judgment layer over an automated market-generation pipeline — approving, editing, and enriching sports prediction markets daily across professional and collegiate leagues.
What You'll Do Review a daily queue of system-generated sports prediction markets against firm completion deadlines, working event by event across every market a fixture generates. Assess each candidate market for factual accuracy, clarity, and adjudicable resolution criteria tied to authoritative sources and defined settlement dates. Verify correct open and close timing for each event, accounting for scheduled and unscheduled delays.
Apply the appropriate settlement conventions per league — overtime, shootouts, postponements, abandonments, minimum-play thresholds on player props, and official statistical corrections. Confirm policy compliance against community standards and content guidelines, escalating ambiguous or sensitive cases rather than making unsupported calls. Approve, edit, or reject each candidate market with a structured, categorized reason — this record is a core product deliverable.
Rewrite question and resolution language for precision and authentic fan voice. Author timestamped clarifications for live market ambiguities and resolve settlement exceptions the data feed cannot handle. Proactively scan live markets for errors and monitor schedules, team news, and social platforms for events the pipeline missed. Participate in weekly calibration reviews to maintain consistency with published guidelines and fellow curators.
What We're Looking For 3+ years in sports trading, sports data operations, sports journalism/editorial, or a comparable role requiring deep, current subject-matter expertise. Demonstrable, active fluency in professional and collegiate sports — following it now , not historically. Strong familiarity with sports culture and sports social media, including trades, free agency, and breaking news sources.
Working knowledge of official rules and settlement conventions for major leagues, and which sources are authoritative for results and statistics. Proven judgment on edge cases: suspended/abandoned events, statistical corrections, contested outcomes, and ambiguous official rulings. Exceptional written precision under deadline — able to draft unambiguous resolution rules that hold up after the outcome is known.
Comfort applying a structured policy framework, with the instinct to escalate rather than guess. Flexible availability for evening, overnight, and weekend work around live events. Nice to Have Experience with prediction markets, sportsbooks, exchanges, or DFS platforms as a trader or power user. Background on a trading desk or as a super-user of prediction apps. Sports journalism experience or contributions to style guides, rulebooks, or annotation standards.
Familiarity with content policy, moderation frameworks, or editorial standards. How Success Is Measured Consistent, on-time completion of the daily market queue. High decision quality — strong agreement with peers and leads on calibration samples, and a low rate of published markets requiring void, amendment, or resettlement. Structured, specific, and correctly categorized rejection reasons. Published questions that survive contact with the actual outcome without dispute.
Proactive surfacing of relevant events and markets the pipeline didn't generate.