Director, Product Management, Trading Card Game
Fanatics
About the Team
Fanatics TCG is a new trading card game business, the newest member of the Fanatics Collectibles family. We are here to build the best TCG studio and games in the world.
If you have passion, and skill, and if you believe trading card games represent the very best of what games have to offer, please reach out to us.
Role Summary
The Director of Product Management owns the product vision, strategy, and execution for Fanatics Collectibles’ trading card game business. This role leads product strategy across physical and digital experiences and partners closely with Design, Art, Engineering, Operations, and Commercial teams to bring the TCG to market and scale it as a live ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Define and own the end-to-end product vision and roadmap for the TCG business
- Lead and scale the TCG product management team
- Partner with Design and Art leadership to translate creative vision into product plans
- Drive prioritization, sequencing, and tradeoffs across physical and digital initiatives
- Align product strategy with business goals, licensing requirements, and fan needs
- Represent Product in executive and cross-functional leadership forums
Qualifications & Experience
- Minimum 10 years of product management experience
- Minimum 5 years leading product teams or major product portfolios
- Experience launching and scaling consumer products or live services
- Experience working in highly cross-functional environments
Skills & Abilities
- Strong product strategy, execution, and people leadership skills
- Excellent stakeholder management and communication abilities
- Data-informed decision-making paired with sound judgment
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and building new product capabilities
Location & Compensation
Achieving our goals requires strong collaboration and partnership between our teams and internal stakeholders. To best support this, the person who accepts this role is expected to be onsite in-office five days per week.
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Fanatics Collectibles is a new model and vision for the hobby, fundamentally changing the experience for current and future collectors, leagues, and players across many U.S. and international professional and college sports. The organization has long-term, exclusive rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards for several sports and entertainment properties, including MLB, MLBPA, the Premier League, MLS, UFC, Formula 1 as well as Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars, among others. In January 2022, Fanatics Collectibles announced the acquisition of Topps, establishing the preeminent licensed trading card brand as the cornerstone of Fanatics’ trading cards and collectibles business, and jumpstarted its MLB and MLBPA rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards