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Kalshi

Regulated event-contract trading platform

Web Designer

Full-Time
$115k - $180k/yr+ Equity
Senior
New York, NY, USA
In Person
Product & Experience Design

About the job

Requirements
  • At least 5 years of experience designing websites and digital brand experiences.
  • A portfolio centered on exceptional, shipped website work.
  • Strong typography, composition, hierarchy, and visual-design judgment.
  • Strong digital art-direction and brand-design skills.
  • A deep understanding of responsive website design.
  • Strong interaction and motion-design instincts.
  • Advanced proficiency in Figma.
  • Experience collaborating directly with front-end engineers.
  • The ability to carry an idea from an early creative concept to a production-ready design.
  • The ability to identify and resolve differences between design and implementation.
  • The ability to independently lead projects in an ambitious, fast-moving environment.
Responsibilities
  • Own website design projects from initial concept through launch.
  • Turn Kalshi’s visual identity into distinctive digital experiences rather than simply placing existing brand assets into templates.
  • Develop strong creative concepts, page structures, visual systems, and interaction ideas.
  • Design polished, responsive experiences across desktop, tablet, and mobile.
  • Prototype motion, transitions, and interactive behaviors.
  • Work directly with front-end engineers throughout development.
  • Review builds, provide detailed design feedback, and ensure the finished website meets a high quality bar.
  • Create and evolve reusable components and patterns that improve speed and consistency.
  • Balance fast-moving launches with longer-term improvements to Kalshi’s website system.
  • Help establish Kalshi’s visual and interaction language across the web.
  • Identify opportunities to make the websites clearer, more useful, and more memorable.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience designing websites for highly recognizable consumer or technology brands.
  • Experience creating campaign sites, product launches, or interactive brand experiences.
  • Experience building or evolving a website design system or reusable component library.
  • Experience designing editorial, data-rich, or content-heavy websites.
  • Experience working closely with engineers on sophisticated web interactions.
  • Experience in fintech, trading, sports, media, culture, or consumer technology.
  • Experience at a high-growth startup or creative environment with a rapid pace.

About the company

Kalshi runs a US federally regulated exchange that lets traders speculate on whether future events will occur using event contracts. These contracts are approved by the CFTC and enable positions on outcomes like statistics or legislative results. Traders place bets on events via Kalshi’s trading platform, and the company earns revenue from transaction fees on each trade. Kalshi differentiates itself by being the first federally regulated market for event contracts, focusing on a new asset class within the futures ecosystem, and attracting both individual investors and institutional traders. Its goal is to give participants a regulated venue to hedge or speculate on economically significant events, expanding the scope of traditional futures markets.

Company Size

501-1,000

Company Stage

Series F

Total Funding

$2.5B

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2019

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What believers are saying

  • July 2026 revenue annualized above $4 billion signals explosive sports demand.
  • Public and Coinbase partnerships broaden retail automation and real-time execution.
  • Biotech pilot markets launched July 2026 create new non-sports verticals.

What critics are saying

  • New York sued July 31, 2026 seeking to block all event contracts nationwide.
  • CFTC advisory on September 22, 2026 highlighted insider-trading and fraud enforcement across Kalshi.
  • A Supreme Court loss on sports betting erases Kalshi's core fee base by 2027.

What makes Kalshi unique

  • Kalshi remains the only CFTC-regulated U.S. exchange for event contracts, despite 2026 litigation.
  • Its September 2026 tribal app partnership expands distribution through Tunica-Biloxi ownership.
  • DoubleZero and ProCap integrations turn Kalshi data into institutional trading infrastructure.

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Company Equity

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-2%

1 year growth

9%

2 year growth

23%
Fortune
Oct 14th, 2026
Kalshi co-founder credits "no VPs" flat structure for growth to $4B annualised revenue

Kalshi, the prediction market, has grown fast by avoiding formal hierarchy, co-founder and chief operating officer Luana Lopes Lara said. "We don't have 'heads of' or VPs," she told Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit in Santa Barbara, California. Everyone reports to her or is one step away. Lara said this lets the company decide and adjust quickly, and avoid the meetings and red tape that slow growing startups. One research firm estimated in June that Kalshi was on track for $4 billion in annualised revenue, up from $775 million in December. Sports betting drove much of the rise. Dozens of state governments claim Kalshi runs an illegal sports gambling operation. Appeals courts have issued conflicting rulings, and the Supreme Court is expected to rule next year. Lara said she is optimistic Kalshi will prevail.

NPR
Oct 9th, 2026
Kalshi hires former FBI agent to lead anti-money laundering efforts amid regulatory scrutiny

Kalshi has hired former FBI agent Sean Fern to lead its first anti-money laundering team as prediction markets face increasing regulatory scrutiny. Fern, who previously served as a federal prosecutor in Brooklyn and worked on the FBI's international corruption squad, will monitor suspicious activity on the platform. According to TickerTracker, Kalshi has processed $260 billion in bets this year, triple the amount traded in all of 2025. The platform faces mounting pressure over market manipulation and insider trading. Federal regulators recently settled with former Rep. George Santos over market manipulation, whilst prosecutors indicted individuals for allegedly using non-public information on rival platform Polymarket. PitchBook estimates Kalshi's value at around $40 billion. The company has 250 employees and plans to double headcount within six months.

Fortune
Oct 9th, 2026
US gambling addiction nonprofit chief resigns after $2M Kalshi donation sparks internal revolt

The executive director of the National Council on Problem Gambling resigned in late September after accepting a $2 million donation from prediction market platform Kalshi without board approval. Heather Maurer, who began the role in January, required directors to sign nondisclosure agreements before revealing the donation at an April conference. When questioned, she acknowledged Kalshi had not agreed to fund safety measures or promote addiction helplines, sparking internal revolt. The controversy prompted several state organisations to sever ties with NCPG, including Washington's Evergreen Council on Problem Gambling and Ohio Casino Control Commission in September. The backlash centred on NCPG creating a separate "financial services and trading" donor category for Kalshi, exempting the platform from public safeguards required of traditional sportsbooks like DraftKings and FanDuel. Kalshi has grown to a valuation above $20 billion.

Fortune
Oct 7th, 2026
Four tribes launch prediction apps with Kalshi, breaking Native American opposition to the industry

Four tribes from California and Oklahoma have launched prediction apps in partnership with Kalshi, marking a significant split in Native American opposition to prediction markets. Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town launched PokkeTrades, whilst three California tribes — Kletsel Dehe Wintun Nation, Greenville Rancheria, and Alturas Indian Rancheria — introduced their own platforms. The move follows the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana launching SaltTrade Derivatives last month. Each tribe owns and controls its app whilst Kalshi handles trading operations behind the scenes. The partnerships highlight a divide within Indian Country. Casino gaming generated over $46 billion in revenue in 2025 for tribes, and several have filed lawsuits against Kalshi alleging violations of tribal gaming rights. However, some tribes view prediction markets as a new revenue source, particularly those whose geography limits traditional gaming development.

Fortune
Sep 24th, 2026
Public launches AI trading agents for prediction markets through Kalshi partnership

Public is launching AI trading agents that execute automated strategies on prediction markets through a partnership with Kalshi. The New York-based investing app allows users to instruct AI agents to trade on real-world events or use prediction market data to inform broader portfolio decisions. Users set a strategy and the AI converts it into fixed rules, ranging from sending alerts when odds change to automatically buying or selling investments. The agents can monitor markets continuously and execute strategies investors might not physically manage themselves. Public must approve all rules before agents can act. The platform aims to prevent unintended trades by converting requests into visual plans requiring user review before activation as fixed code. The product targets active, self-directed investors wanting to track events affecting portfolios, such as Federal Reserve rate decisions or regulatory approvals. Public, founded in 2019 and backed by Accel and Tiger Global, manages billions in assets across millions of users.