Market Analyst

About the Role

ABOUT THE COMPANY Proto is making the world s biggest macro themes directly tradable for the first time: data center growth, AI capex, GPU manufacturing, US foreign arms sales, as easy as trading on Robinhood. Private mainnet beta on Solana launching EOY 2026. We re building a new market mechanism designed to improve how markets handle a broader range of market outcomes. Rather than re-using perpetual futures or traditional binary predictions, our approach enables more continuous price discovery through a novel market structure, creating a more efficient and intuitive trading experience while enabling 10-20x leverage. Built by a veteran ex-Phantom team (VP Product at Ondo, Quant Research at Citadel, experience leading teams at Google, Pinterest, Facebook, and Carta). We raised our seed round from a tier 1 crypto investor and Coinbase Ventures, with early angels including the founders of Phantom, Jito, Pendle, Goldsky, Meld, and SimpleHash. ABOUT THE ROLE A part-time role, 15-20 hours a week, reporting to the CEO and working closely with our team. Your job is deciding which markets Proto lists and making sure each one is built on numbers we can trust. You trade equities, you go deep into the data and research, and you have opinions about which numbers move a stock. This role turns that into markets. WHAT YOU LL DO Recommend which markets we list. Research company, sector and macro metrics that traders care about. For each one, size demand, check how often it reports, and decide whether it s a clean number to trade. Every proposal ends with a clear call: list it or don t, and why. Vet the data source. For every market, name the official source (10-Q/10-K, earnings release, EIA, Census and so on). Check it for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, revisions and a fallback if it s late. Escalate anything unclear instead of guessing. Write the settlement rules. Define the metric, the release schedule and how the market settles, written so two people reading it can t rea...