Principal Product Manager, Collectors
Marketplace
$179-290k
More information about location
Authentication & sale services for high-value collectibles
Job no longer available
Authentication & sale services for high-value collectibles
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$179-290k
More information about location
1001+ 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
- Experienced product leader: 10+ years in consumer-facing product management across entertainment, gaming, and/or social, having shipped and scaled 0→1 products
- Growth innovator: Strong product sense for mechanics that drive customer acquisition, usage intensity, and retention (merchandizing, events, rewards, social/creator levers) and a track record turning ideas into measurable impact
- Data‑driven experimenter: Expert in instrumentation, A/B testing, cohort analysis, and lifecycle optimization; pairs creativity with evidence
- Systems thinker: Comfortable simplifying complex, multi‑system flows (payments, risk/T&S, logistics/vaulting, resale) into intuitive experiences
- Influential communicator: Aligns executives as well as internal and external partners without direct authority; articulates trade‑offs and makes crisp, high‑conviction decisions to lead cross-functional teams (engineering, design, data, business, marketing)
- Builder mindset: Bias for action, ownership, and high standards; thrives in a fast‑moving, self‑contained business unit
- Passion for collecting is a plus
What the job involves
- Our Product and Design teams are helping to create a seamless user experience across various platforms to provide the most trusted services and delightful experiences for grading, protecting, managing, buying, selling, and sharing collectibles
- Our grading operation processes millions of collectibles a year and serves as a research hub for collectors across collectible categories
- By leading the standards in the collectibles industry, we have earned customer trust that we can leverage across our expanding Marketplace product offerings
- We’re looking for a Principal Product Manager (reporting to the VP of Product for Marketplace) to lead a new consumer product within the Marketplace vertical
- You’ll own the product vision, strategy, and execution to take a new product from beta to breakout, building innovative product mechanics, growth loops, and seamless cross‑ecosystem experiences
- You’ll own the roadmap end‑to‑end, partnering with a dedicated cross‑functional team (business, engineering, design, data) to grow the user base, delight our customers, and drive business results
- Own the end-to-end product vision: Define, communicate, and drive a bold, unified vision for the new customer experience, balancing strategic innovation with operational excellence
- Build durable growth loops: Launch referral and loyalty rewards, gamified experiences, lifecycle messaging, and personalized recommendations that compound acquisition and retention
- Innovate to delight customers: Partner with design and marketing to craft fun, unique, on‑brand moments and experiences that lift conversion, repeat purchase, and NPS
- Drive the roadmap and execution end‑to‑end: Translate strategy and product sense into clear priorities, specs, and user stories; coordinate delivery across dedicated and partner engineering teams
- Instrument and learn fast: Define analytics, implement tracking/feature flags, and run A/B tests and rapid prototypes; make data‑informed calls with velocity and rigor
- Integrate the ecosystem: Ensure seamless experiences across the Marketplace ecosystem (Collection Management, Vaulting, and Selling) to reduce friction and resolve technical dependencies
- Lead cross‑functional communication and execution: Deliver crisp, context-aware communication - from executive presentations to engineering standups - communicating trade‑offs, unblocking teams, and delivering predictably
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.
The fact that Collectors is more than a marketplace serves it well in the space. Indeed, its most popular services appear to be grading and authentication, as well as storage vault services. And, with the collectibles industry forecast to double in value by the end of the decade, Collectors is in a position of serious strength.
The company has seen some good investment too, totalling over $200 million. It continues to expand its services with acquisitions of other players in the sector, and is now the parent of PSA, PSA Vault, PCGS, SGC, Card Ladder, Collectors Financial Services and Beckett.
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)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.
Share this job
View 13 more jobs at Collectors