Location: Remote - New York

Employment Type: Salaried

Team: Fanatics Collectibles

About the Team

Fanatics Collectibles is a new company working at the intersection of collectibles and technology. Backed by some of the best investors, sports properties and operators in the world, we are integrating with Fanatics’ global digital sports platform – which includes 900 sports relationships and more than 81 million reachable fans - to reimagine the collectibles business for the 21st century.

Fanatics Collectibles is looking for a Principal Product Manager, Data. This person would be responsible for the process of collecting, storing, normalizing, organizing, sharing and prioritizing card, pricing, consumer and product data, as well as working with stakeholders to conceive and build both internal- and consumer-facing data applications and tools.

As the Principal Product Manager, Data, you will look at card and pricing data through the lens of our digital products, determining what data FC’s digital products need to deliver a best-in-class collector experience and how best to integrate that data. You will support the selling of trading cards across the product lifecycle, from primary sale and breaking to secondary sale. This role requires a complete understanding of the trading card ecosystem and how the value of trading card products can fluctuate on a daily basis—and the many different variables that can contribute to their market value. You will work closely with a variety of business stakeholders, including a BI data team, as well as your counterparts on the engineering, product and design teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the product road map and requirements for all data, including card, pricing, consumer and digital product analytics
• Oversee development of an easy-to-access database of trading card set information
• Determine with BI partners relevant data sources and how to ingest, normalize and access them
• Collaborate with business side to establish data partnerships with third parties
• Work with engineering and BI data team to determine replicable, predictive pricing models, as well different ways of visualizing and making use of these models
• Conceive of and build data-driven consumer-facing collector tools
• Establish best practices for the collection and storage of digital data

Qualifications

• Experience: You have 6+ years product management experience in a similar data role. Understanding of the trading card space and breaking is a bonus.
• Execution: You have led product at fast growing organizations which are able to execute consistently, delivering quality projects of the broadest scope and impact on time
• Technical: You are comfortable working with engineering leadership to prioritize broadly and you understand technical complexities of your product areas
• Analytical: You have a good grasp of experiment design, statistical analysis and multivariate testing. You can use data to set OKRs, create dashboards to monitor product health, review analyses from across the company and develop basic models. You can construct a narrative for using data in order to drive the decision making process
• Organizational skills: You are able to manage relationships with stakeholders across the organization. You have experience working closely with business & marketing partners
• Communication: You’re a strong communicator, both written and orally. You enjoy working with complex concepts and distilling them down so that anyone can understand them. You’re comfortable working cross functionally with stakeholders and can manage competing needs to drive alignment and resolution

Fanatics is building the leading global digital sports platform to ignite and harness the passions of fans, and maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally. Leveraging these long-standing partnerships, a database of more than 80 million global consumers and a trusted, recognizable brand name, Fanatics is expanding beyond its position as the global leader for licensed sports merchandise to now becoming a next-gen digital sports platform, featuring an array of offerings across the sports ecosystem.

The Fanatics family of companies currently includes Fanatics Commerce, a vertically-integrated licensed merchandise business that has changed the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel, jerseys, headwear and hardgoods through a tech-infused approach to making and quickly distributing fan gear in today’s 24/7 mobile-first economy; Candy Digital, a digital collectibles company that is partnering with prominent sports properties, including MLB and MLBPA, to build an official NFT ecosystem; Fanatics Collectibles, a transformative company that is building a new model for the hobby and giving collectors an end-to-end collectibles experience; and Fanatics Betting & Gaming, a mobile betting, gaming and retail sportsbook platform. Additional ventures that will build out Fanatics’ footprint across the broader digital sports landscape will be rolled out soon. Fanatics’ partners include all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA) and hundreds of collegiate and professional teams, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs.

As a market leader with more than 8,000 employees, and hundreds of partners, suppliers, and vendors worldwide, we take responsibility for driving toward more ethical and sustainable practices. We are committed to building an inclusive Fanatics community, reflecting and representing society at every level of the business, including our employees, vendors, partners and fans. Fanatics is also dedicated to making a positive impact in the communities where we all live, work, and play through strategic philanthropic initiatives.

At Fanatics, we’re a diverse, passionate group of employees aiming to ignite pride and passion in the fans we outfit, celebrate and support. We recognize that diversity helps drive and foster innovation, and through our IDEA program (inclusion, diversity, equality and advocacy) at Fanatics we provide employees with tools and resources to feel connected and engaged in who they are and what they do to support the ultimate fan experience.

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Tryouts are open at Fanatics! Our team is passionate, talented, unified, and charged with creating the fan experience of tomorrow. The ball is in your court now.

Fanatics is committed to responsible planning and purchasing (RPP) practices, working with its business partners across its global and multi-layered supply chain, to ensure that planning, sourcing, and purchasing decisions, along with other supporting processes, do not impede or conflict with the fulfillment of Fanatics’ fair labor practices.

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