Senior Technical Program Manager, Collectors
$139.8-171.5k
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Office located in Santa Ana, CA or Jersey City, NY
Authentication & sale services for high-value collectibles
Job no longer available
Authentication & sale services for high-value collectibles
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$139.8-171.5k
More information about location
Office located in Santa Ana, CA or Jersey City, NY
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help collectors pursue their passion through industry leading grading and authentication, tools to help collectors research and find the next big thing, and marketplaces to buy and sell.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of product management and/or technical program management experience in a modern product or engineering organization operating in an agile environment
- Expert understanding of the software development lifecycle in relation to agile best practices
- Scaled Agile experience is a bonus
- Experienced with leading Agile/Scrum methodologies as well as working with and configuring Jira or other work management softwares
- Depth in experience of technical program management practices including coordinating dependencies across teams, reporting on milestones, outcomes, and blockers, and leading successful releases/deployments across complex initiatives
- Passion for rallying teams around shared goals and finding and exploiting new ways to increase efficiency
- Ability to excel and deliver clear impact despite competing priorities and ambiguity
- Focused on delivering value for customers
- Desire to develop and implement new strategies at an organizational level
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Technical Program Manager who is practical, ambitious, and empathetic
- We value people who can quickly obtain a deep understanding of new domains, and who can be scrappy and innovative in approaching program planning, milestone setting, and driving toward optimal outcomes
- You’ll drive strategic, complex projects from inception to delivery, ensuring our teams are well positioned to track against their milestones and budgets
- You’ll partner with engineering, design, and product counterparts to bring transparency and excitement to the deliverables and be an integral part of our teams as we work to create delightful experiences for our customers, both internal to Collectors and externally
- Collaboratively partner with other teams (Engineering, Design, Product, Business stakeholders, etc.) in the product development lifecycle to shape and prioritize product plans that solve customer problems in ways that deliver on company goals
- Focus on the most mission critical, high priority initiatives with a focus on business and technology objectives
- Provide best-in-class communications about project inception, milestones, and deliverables to stakeholders
- Develop and run training and educational programs to help transform organizational practices
- Design and share processes and documents that provide maximum autonomy for development teams while maintaining a level of standardization that allows the company to scale
- Combine superior communication skills with the analytical horsepower to break down complex, ambiguous problems and possess a strong will to be resourceful and get stuff done
- Solve problems with a focus on automation and process improvement, creating efficiencies as you work
- Contribute to the strategic roadmap prioritization processes with key stakeholders and deliver success management with multiple stakeholders
- Support our developer operations environment so we can continue to create new businesses and migrate existing ones, scaling our businesses across the globe to new heights
- Understand the customer and advocate for them
Our take
Collectors offers a range of services for the collectibles industry including authentication and grading, collectibles research and sourcing tools, and a buy-and-sell marketplace. The industry is going through a huge renaissance, with a particularly high demand for sports and trading games cards, and Collectors has come to the fore as a major name.
While other big companies in the space include Fanatics and Steiner Sports, the fact that Collectors’ is more than a marketplace serves it well. Indeed, its most popular services appear to be grading and authentication, as well as storage vault services.
Collectors’ recent past has been very interesting to watch, as a 2021 acquisition led by current CEO Nat Turner unified the various brands of the former Collectors Universe, which was then relaunched as its current all-in-one platform.
It’s proving to be a shrewd move, as the “new” company’s first fundraise totaled $100 million, followed by an extra $123 million in post-IPO debt funding in 2023. With the collectibles industry forecast to double in value to be worth as much as $700 billion by end of the decade, Collectors is putting itself in a position of serious strength.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company benefits
- Employee Discounts: Be your own customer. Receive discounts on select grading services for approved submissions.
- 401(K) Matching Plan: Invest in your future with our competitive 401k matching plan.
- Health Insurance: Collectors offers medical, dental, and vision for you and your family’s well being.
- Vacation/Paid Time Off: Enjoy time away from work with paid vacation for full-time employees.
- Holiday Pay: All regular, full-time employees are eligible for 10 company paid holidays.
- Flexible Hours: Flexible schedules with varying shifts are available to accommodate your needs.
Company HQ
Santa Ana, CA
Leadership
Nat Turner
(CEO, not founder)Angel investor and well-known sports card collector. As well as being CEO of Collectors, is a board member at OneOncology and former board member at health companies Sema4 and Clover Health. Co-founded and led Flatiron Health (Acquired by Roche) from 2012 - 2022.
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