Market Analyst

What you’ll do

Monitor crypto markets

• Track launches, news, trading activity, and structural changes across prediction markets and perpetual futures.
• Follow volume, open interest, funding rates, liquidity, and market-share trends across major venues.
• Monitor trader discussions on X, Discord, Telegram, and other relevant communities to identify sentiment shifts and early signals.
• Maintain an up-to-date view of competing oracles, data providers, and market infrastructure providers.
• Deliver timely insights on what market changes mean for Pyth.

Research users and protocols

• Analyze how prediction-market and perpetual-futures protocols use price and market data.
• Map user needs, pain points, and gaps in the current data-infrastructure landscape.
• Build dashboards, datasets, and repeatable research workflows for internal teams.
• Identify emerging protocols, high-potential integrations, and new market segments.

Shape product opportunities

• Translate market findings into concrete product ideas, partnerships, and strategic recommendations.
• Size opportunities using market, venue, and on-chain data.
• Collaborate with product, engineering, and business-development teams to validate and prioritize initiatives.
• Track the performance of launched initiatives against their original market thesis.

Communicate insights clearly

• Write concise research reports for internal stakeholders and external audiences.
• Present market findings and recommendations to leadership.
• Create a reliable, decision-oriented research process that helps Pyth act quickly in rapidly changing markets.

What you bring

• Experience as a crypto-market analyst, researcher, or data professional at a crypto research firm, perpetual-futures exchange, prediction-market platform, or related organization.
• Strong knowledge of prediction-market and perpetual-futures market structure.
• Familiarity with trader communities and the ability to distinguish meaningful signals from noise across X, Discord, Telegram, and similar channels.
• Proficiency with analytical tools such as SQL, Python, Dune, or comparable on-chain and market-data platforms.
• Strong writing and communication skills, with examples of research that informed product, investment, or business decisions.
• A self-directed approach to research, prioritization, and problem-solving.
• Comfort working at startup speed, with evolving priorities and high ownership.