Hard Rock Digital · 1 month ago
VP - Trading
United States
Full-time
Remote
Director/ExecutiveHard Rock Digital is focused on becoming the best online sportsbook, casino, and social gaming company in the world. The VP of Trading will drive the price origination and live trading function for US sports, leading a team to ensure competitive and profitable pricing strategies while collaborating with technology teams.
Computer Software
Responsibilities
Build and lead a best-in-class team responsible for core sports pricing, market making, derivative markets, SGPs, and risk positioning
Lead execution of pricing strategy across all market types with focus on competitiveness, accuracy, and profitability
Act as the key customer and partner to internal product, data science, and engineering teams responsible for building pricing models
Understand, validate, and challenge model outputs, while maintaining an open, solution-oriented mindset
Ensure pricing logic aligns with real-world trading conditions, edge cases, and market movement
Provide structured, data-driven feedback to improve model performance and automation quality
Own market positioning strategies across sports, ensuring pricing aligns with trading goals and customer maximization
Manage exposure and risk limits in real time, adjusting strategy in response to betting patterns and volatility
Develop frameworks to flag and respond to mispricing, inefficiencies, or liability spikes
Be an authority on the industry’s regulatory terrain and responsible gambling policies
Champion scalable trading practices by driving automation where possible across pricing, margining, and market management
Identify friction points in current workflows and collaborate with product/engineering to prioritize trading tool enhancements
Build a roadmap for the future of automated market making with trading input at its core
Collaborate with Customer Optimization, Analysis, Trading, and Event Control teams to align on execution and exposure strategies
Act as a senior voice in sportsbook leadership, contributing to planning, product feedback, and innovation initiatives
Ensure your team’s decisions and processes are aligned with state-level compliance frameworks
Qualification
Required
Significant experience in sportsbook trading or price origination, with a strong track record of owning markets and driving performance
Deep knowledge of professional and college sports, pricing theory, market making, and risk exposure management
Proven ability to work cross-functionally with tech, product, and quant teams
An outstanding leader. An inspirational mentor to your team, cultivating and enabling talent to flourish
Strong analytical and data fluency; comfortable validating pricing logic and understanding model assumptions
Commercially minded and open to evolving how both technology and human expertise can be harnessed for the optimal outcomes
Excellent communicator, able to challenge thinking constructively and lead through change
Benefits
Competitive pay and benefits
Flexible vacation allowance
Startup culture backed by a secure, global brand
A vibrant, collaborative office-based environment designed to foster a high-energy, high-performance trading culture
The chance to build and mentor a close-knit team where energy, accountability, and ambition are celebrated
Opportunity help shape the future strategy of the Sportsbook
Company
Hard Rock Digital
Hard Rock Digital is building the future of online sports betting and interactive gaming.
Founded in 2020
501-1000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
M
Marlon Goldstein
Executive Managing Director & CEO
Earl Mitchell
SVP Predictive Analytics
Recent News
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