Kalshi
Financial Markets
VisualDataJournalist
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“Visual Data Journalist at Kalshi. Skills: Data journalism, Visual journalism, Data storytelling, Data visualization. Mine Kalshi's market data for angles that are genuinely newsworthy, counterintuitive, or revealing. Design and produce charts, interactive graphics, maps, and data visualizations”
What You'll Achieve.
Turn our rich data resources into engaging and beautiful visuals and human and compelling narratives; Bring our markets to life across platforms; Data storytelling can drive coverage or shape narratives
Industry & Context.
Pull signals from our markets; Translate complex datasets into visual formats; Find the angle that's surprising, relevant, and worth someone's time
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
4+ years of experience in data journalism, visual journalism, or a closely related field, Portfolio that shows both analytical depth and genuine visual craft, Command of data analysis tools, Ability to go from raw data to insight without needing a data team to hold your hand, Design sensibility that goes beyond functional, Experience producing interactive or web-based visualizations, Ability to look at a dataset and find the angle that's surprising, relevant, and worth someone's time, Writing skills to explain a complex idea clearly and concisely
What You'll Do.
Mine Kalshi's market data for angles that are genuinely newsworthy
Design and produce charts
and data visualizations
Translate complex datasets like probability distributions
and correlations into visual formats
Push the aesthetic bar: typography
and analyze market data
sharp explanatory copy
Work with communications
and product to identify moments where data storytelling can drive coverage or shape narratives
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work with design team; Work with communications, policy, and product
Communication Scope
Writing clear, sharp explanatory copy; Explain a complex idea clearly and concisely
Full Job Description
WHAT IS KALSHI? Kalshi has defined a new category: prediction markets. Kalshi allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn any question about the future into a financial asset. Kalshi fought for years and legalized prediction markets in the US for the first time in history, is currently the fastest growing financial market in America, and has thousands of markets across politics, economics, financials, weather, tech, AI, culture and more. We believe prediction markets have the potential to be the largest financial market because they turn anything into a financial position. - Our vision: well… build the largest financial market on the planet. - Our mission: bring more truth to the world through the power of markets. Our culture is simple: we hire really talented people, work really hard, and enjoy the climb. We are looking for ambitious and exceptional people to join our (relatively small) team to help us build the next generation of financial markets. ROLE ROADMAP Kalshi is looking for a Visual Data Journalist to help us turn our rich data resources into engaging and beautiful visuals and human and compelling narratives. Your job sits at the intersection of data, design, and storytelling - you'll pull signals from our markets, weave them into interesting written stories, and work with our design team to craft eye-catching data visualizations, bringing our markets to life across platforms. WHAT YOU'LL DO - Mine Kalshi's market data for angles that are genuinely newsworthy, counterintuitive, or revealing (the kind of thing people share because it changes how they think about something) - Design and produce charts, interactive graphics, maps, and data visualizations that are as beautiful as they are informative - Translate complex datasets like probability distributions, time series, and correlations into visual formats that are immediately intuitive to a general audience - Push the aesthetic bar: typography, color, layout, and the difference between a
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