Escalations And Complaints Lead

Polymarket
United States
Remote

Who this role is best for

A natural match if you have experience building complaint programs in regulated environments and are comfortable handling high-stakes customer cases.

Best fit for

  • Candidates with a background in regulated financial services and experience in building complaint programs from scratch
    — “building complaint programs in regulated environments”
  • Individuals who have personally managed high-stakes customer cases with regulatory implications
    — “personally handle the most sensitive and highest-stakes customer cases”
  • Candidates with strong cross-functional collaboration skills, particularly with Legal and Compliance teams
    — “comfort working directly with Legal and Compliance teams”

Things to consider

  • The role demands a high level of documentation rigor, especially for audit readiness
    — “Documentation discipline matters as much as resolution speed here”
  • This is a remote role in the US, but it requires working with global teams and handling international regulatory concerns
    — “meet regulatory and audit expectations”

How to stand out

  • Highlight your experience in designing complaint workflows that meet regulatory standards
    — “build the complaints program from the ground up”
  • Emphasize your ability to manage emotionally charged customer interactions with empathy and clarity
    — “sound judgment and a consistent sense of fairness when cases are ambiguous or emotionally charged”
  • Showcase your track record of working with Legal and Compliance teams on actionable case summaries
    — “translating case details into formats they can act on”
  • Demonstrate your ability to analyze complaint trends and drive product or policy changes
    — “analyze complaint and escalation trends, identify root causes, and drive fixes”
  • Demonstrate your ability to train AI systems and frontline agents on documentation and handoff standards
    — “train front-line agents and AI systems on escalation criteria, handoff procedures”
Pace · Fast PacedCollaboration · HighAutonomy · MediumDecision Impact · Company

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What success looks like

  • define and own the escalations process
  • build the complaints program
  • handle sensitive customer cases
  • analyze complaint trends
  • drive fixes with product and engineering
Typical background
escalations experiencecomplaints management experiencecustomer resolution experience

Skills & requirements

Required

Escalation ManagementComplaint HandlingRoot Cause AnalysisRegulatory ComplianceCustomer ResolutionTrust And SafetyCommunity ManagementProduct And Engineering CoordinationReporting

Preferred

Formal Complaints Program BuildingRegulatory Environment Experience

Stack & domain

CommunicationProblem-solvingCustomer ServiceCompliance

About the role

Original posting from Polymarket via Ashby

## About Polymarket

Polymarket is the world's largest prediction market platform. We enable individuals to express views on real-world events by trading on outcomes across politics, economics, sports, culture, and current affairs. Built as a peer-to-peer marketplace with no centralized "house," Polymarket aggregates diverse opinions into transparent, market-based probabilities that reflect collective expectations about the future.

We're growing fast, both in terms of volume ($21B traded in 2025) and adoption as an alternative news source. Our ambition is to become a ubiquitous beacon of truth in global media and we need your help adding fuel to the fire.

## About the Role

When something goes wrong for a customer and the normal path hasn't fixed it, the case lands with you. You'll own how Polymarket handles escalations and formal complaints end to end: intake, classification, resolution, root cause analysis, and reporting. The scope covers trust, safety, and community concerns alongside standard customer disputes, and it has to meet regulatory and audit expectations. Documentation discipline matters as much as resolution speed here.

This is a build role. Polymarket's CX function is growing, and a formal escalations and complaints program doesn't fully exist yet. You'll define what gets escalated, how, and to whom, set service levels, and make sure every case file is clean enough to hand to a regulator. You'll work closely with Legal, Compliance, Trust and Safety, Product, and Engineering, which means you need to be as comfortable writing a case summary for outside counsel as you are talking a frustrated customer off a ledge.

The right person for this role is a steady hand with a strong sense of fairness and a track record of building complaint programs in regulated environments. If you've spent years cleaning up other people's escalation messes and have opinions about how to do it right, this is your chance to build it from scratch.

## What You'll Do

  • Define and own the escalations process: what triggers an escalation, who handles it, and what the resolution timeline looks like at each severity level.
  • Build the complaints program from the ground up, including intake, classification, tracking, and resolution workflows that satisfy regulatory and audit requirements.
  • Personally handle the most sensitive and highest-stakes customer cases, including those involving regulatory referrals or formal consumer complaints.
  • Partner with Trust and Safety and Community teams to manage concerns that arrive through support channels and require cross-functional coordination.
  • Analyze complaint and escalation trends, identify root causes, and drive fixes with Product, Engineering, and Policy.
  • Maintain complete, accurate case records and produce reporting that Legal, Compliance, and external auditors can rely on.
  • Train front-line agents and AI systems on escalation criteria, handoff procedures, and documentation standards so the program works at scale.

## What We're Looking For

  • 4 or more years in escalations, complaints management, or customer resolution at a fintech, bank, brokerage, or other regulated company.
  • Direct experience building or running a formal complaints program, including intake design, case tracking, and regulatory reporting.
  • Strong written communication skills, particularly in sensitive situations where tone and precision both matter.
  • Rigorous documentation habits and a clear understanding of what "audit-ready" actually means in practice.
  • Sound judgment and a consistent sense of fairness when cases are ambiguous or emotionally charged.
  • Comfort working directly with Legal and Compliance teams, including translating case details into formats they can act on.
  • (Plus) Experience handling regulator-referred or formal consumer complaints, such as CFPB or state-level filings.
  • (Plus) Background in Trust and Safety or community moderation, especially in a platform or marketplace context.

## Benefits

  • Competitive salary & equity
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage
  • 401k match
  • Hardware setup: new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories

PAY TRANSPARENCY

Base salary range: $200,000 to $250,000, plus equity and benefits.

This is a good-faith range for the level we're hiring at. Experience varies widely within a title here, so if your expectations fall outside it, reach out anyway. We're always happy to talk it through.

Source: Polymarket careers (Ashby)

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