Hedging

Kalshi•New York, NY
•$100,000 - $105,000

About The Position

Kalshi is hiring someone curious, analytical, and thoughtful about relationships to help businesses explore how Kalshi’s prediction markets can help offset risks. The role focuses on understanding local businesses and economies, learning how owners operate, and identifying practical ways to make hedging understandable and useful. It combines interest in current events and local economies with a strong understanding of financial risk, close listening, relationship-building, and practical follow-through. The person will help shape how Kalshi works with businesses, beginning with the needs of the people running them.

Requirements

  • Curiosity, analytical thinking, and thoughtful relationship-building.
  • A strong understanding of financial risk.
  • Ability to listen closely, earn trust over time, and follow through with practical help.

Nice To Haves

  • Founder experience and a background in finance or consulting are strongly preferred.
  • Experience founding or helping build a company, with firsthand understanding of business owners’ decisions and uncertainties.
  • Investment banking experience at a bulge-bracket or elite-boutique firm, or strategy consulting experience at McKinsey, Bain, BCG, or a similarly rigorous firm.
  • Experience in trading, derivatives, commodities, treasury, corporate risk management, or client-facing financial work, particularly helping businesses understand and manage exposures.
  • Experience underwriting bespoke insurance, including assessing unusual or complex risks, pricing coverage, and structuring tailored policies around client exposures.
  • Experience building long-term business or community partnerships, developing practical financial education, or helping people use a new financial product.

Responsibilities

  • Build relationships with business owners and community organizations to understand local economies and the risks businesses face.
  • Identify hedging opportunities by connecting current events, weather, policy, and economic changes to business needs.
  • Explain how business owners can use Kalshi to offset risk, including the costs, benefits, and limitations.
  • Help businesses use relevant markets and work with the Markets team to develop new markets when needed.
  • Support onboarding, follow up with business owners, and relay their feedback to Kalshi.
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