PrizePicks

Design and execute mixed-method studies to test creative, messaging, and concepts, providing actionable recommendations to improve business outcomes. | 5+ years in market research with expertise in full research lifecycle, qualitative and quantitative methods, and proficiency in tools like Qualtrics. | At PrizePicks, we are the fastest-growing sports company in North America, as recognized by Inc. 5000. As the leading platform for Daily Fantasy Sports, we cover a diverse range of sports leagues, including the NFL, NBA, and Esports titles like League of Legends and Counter-Strike. Our team of over 550 employees thrives in an inclusive culture that values individuals from diverse backgrounds, regardless of their level of sports fandom. Ready to reimagine the DFS industry together? Description: Senior Researcher who builds and personally runs PrizePicks’ pre-launch creative, concept, messaging, and asset testing; designing mixed-method studies, conducting fieldwork, analyzing results, and delivering recommendations that improve outcomes before launch. This is not a manager or vendor-management role. What You'll Have: 5+ years in market research, consumer insights, advertising research, or a closely related discipline. Currently hands-on across the research lifecycle—writing briefs, designing studies, conducting fieldwork, analyzing findings, and making recommendations Has personally designed and executed creative, advertising, concept, message, or value-proposition testing Can translate a business decision into research objectives, hypotheses, success measures, and an appropriate study design Has personally programmed surveys with visuals in Qualtrics or a comparable platform Understands experimental or monadic designs, sampling, stimulus exposure, quality assurance, analysis, and interpretation Has personally moderated interviews, focus groups, or rapid iterative studies and can diagnose why an idea works or fails Demonstrated mixed-method capability across quantitative and qualitative research Can show examples of research changing a creative or business decision; not merely reporting consumer reactions Nice to Have: Experience testing static advertising, paid social, television, out-of-home, storyboards, animatics, rough cuts, talent, promotions, or product experiences Demonstrates exceptional ownership, persistence, and follow-through Experience in sports, gaming, entertainment, consumer technology, or another culturally fast-moving category Has built benchmarks, research principles, or repeatable creative-learning systems Experience synthesizing consumer research with brand strategy, product context, and in-market performance Uses AI-enabled tools responsibly for study development, qualitative coding, open-text analysis, synthesis, or workflow acceleration Comfort operating across Product Marketing, Integrated Marketing, User Acquisition, Product Design, and Creative teams Where you’ll live: While we prefer candidates based in Atlanta, we are open to qualified applicants from anywhere in the U.S. and are willing to consider remote candidates. #LI-Remote Working at PrizePicks: The typical salary range for this position is $120,000 to $135,000. At PrizePicks, we consider your role, level, and where you'll be working when determining our salary ranges. The compensation info you see on our job postings gives you an idea of the starting pay range for the position. Your actual pay within that range will depend on your specific work location, as well as your skills, experience, and education. Your recruiter will be happy to chat more about the specific pay range for your location and how we arrived at it during the hiring process. This application period will remain open for 30 days. We’re committed to finding the best candidate, so this date may be adjusted, and any changes will be reflected in this posting. Date Posted: 8/28/26 Benefits you’ll receive: In addition to your great compensation package, full-time employees will be eligible for the following perks: Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans 401(k) plan with company match Annual bonus Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!) Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked Company-wide in-person events and team outings Lifestyle enhancement program Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options) Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development You must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time. PrizePicks is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Design, implement, and maintain backend services and microservices with a focus on reliability and scalability. | Requires 5-8 years experience with Ruby on Rails and Go, microservices migration, distributed systems, PostgreSQL, and strong communication skills. | Job Description: • Build and own backend services: Design and implement features across both Rails-based services and Go microservices — from API contracts through deployment and monitoring. • Support the migration to microservices: Help decompose the Rails monolith into well-scoped, independently deployable services, contributing to architectural decisions about what to extract and how. • Power internal tooling APIs: Build and maintain the backend APIs that Back Office operators depend on for real-time decisioning — projection management, risk dashboards, alerting, and member operations. • Own technical delivery: Lead the design and implementation of complex features end-to-end, from product requirements through production deployment. • Drive system reliability: Diagnose and resolve performance bottlenecks, optimize database queries, and improve resilience of backend systems under load. • Define technical direction: Propose and drive architectural decisions for your team's services, evaluating tradeoffs and communicating recommendations clearly to engineers and stakeholders. • Mentor and elevate: Provide hands-on mentorship to Software Engineers I, II, and III through code reviews, pairing, and technical guidance. • Improve engineering practices: Advocate for and improve best practices around code quality, testing, observability, and deployment for the team. • Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Product Managers, QA, and other engineering teams to translate operational goals into well-scoped technical solutions. • Participate in on-call rotation: Share responsibility for production incidents, contributing to root cause analysis and long-term reliability improvements. Requirements: • 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with meaningful production time in both Ruby on Rails and Go • Proven track record of owning and delivering complex, multi-component features in a team environment • Experience working across monolith-to-microservices migrations, extracting services, managing dual-write patterns, and maintaining backward compatibility • Experience designing and operating distributed systems or event-driven architectures • Strong Rails proficiency — you understand the framework deeply, write idiomatic Ruby, and know when to leverage or work around Rails conventions • Strong Go proficiency — you write idiomatic, well-tested, production-quality Go code • Solid PostgreSQL skills, including schema design, query optimization, and performance tuning • Solid understanding of API design (REST and/or gRPC) and service boundary design • Experience with asynchronous workflows — background job processing (Sidekiq or similar), message queues, or event streaming • Experience with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes) • Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation • Understanding of observability practices — logging, metrics, tracing • Comfortable working autonomously with minimal direction on ambiguous problems • Effective communicator who can articulate technical decisions to both engineers and non-technical stakeholders • Able to context-switch between deep technical work and collaborative planning • Experience working in a fully remote engineering organization Benefits: • Company-subsidized medical, dental, & vision plans • 401(k) plan with company match • Annual bonus • Flexible PTO to encourage a healthy work/life balance (2 weeks STRONGLY encouraged!) • Generous paid leave programs, including 16-week paid parental leave and disability benefits • Workplace flexibility and modern work schedules focused on getting the job done, not hours clocked • Company-wide in-person events and team outings • Lifestyle enhancement program • Company equipment provided (Windows & Mac options) • Annual performance reviews with opportunities for growth and career development