Senior Product Designer, Collectors
$135.5-220.1k
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
$135.5-220.1k
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
- 5+ years of experience designing & shipping excellent digital products as part of a cross-functional team in an agile environment. Tech industry experience preferred
- An online portfolio and/or case studies that showcase UX, UI, and visual design work for mobile and web
- Can reduce complex problems down to simple design solutions
- High attention to detail and focus on execution and quality
- Experience designing with a Design System and making your design decisions based on customer feedback and data
- Experience working with PM and research to uncover needs and insights based on data and translating them into thoughtful Design decisions
- Strong expertise in common design tools (Figma, sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.). Experience with Origami 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 product offerings such as Vault
- As a Product Designer at Collectors, you will help create a seamless user experience across web & mobile to provide the most trusted services and delightful experiences for grading, protecting, managing, buying, selling, and sharing collectibles for PSA, the leading card authenticator and at the helm of a digital transformation
- As an early and senior member of the Design team, you would have the opportunity to help shape the team process, creative direction & product vision
- Autonomously own and drive projects, from definition to shipping, that has the highest visibility and is a key business driver with a small cross-functional team
- Work closely with UX research, product managers, and engineers to test features and gain insights that shape high-fidelity prototypes and impactful storytelling
- A mentor for junior designers in creating high-quality deliverables that reflect deep UX sense, high-level and out-of-the-box thinking and decision making
- Own and drive projects, from definition to shipping, with a small cross-functional team
- Champion intentional & opinionated design solutions to sometimes complex problems
- Quickly prototype and share early design solutions to quickly iterate in the open
- Always design user & mobile first
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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