<div class="content-intro"><p style="text-align: center;"><strong>Help empower our global customers to connect to culture through their passions.</strong></p></div><p><strong>Why you’ll love this role:</strong></p> <p>StockX is the world’s leading marketplace for current culture, built at the intersection of commerce, community, and credibility. Trading Cards are foundational to StockX — not just as products, but as artifacts of fandom, nostalgia, speculation, and identity.</p> <p>We are expanding how Trading Cards culture shows up on StockX through creator-driven, community-oriented commerce experiences that blend storytelling, expertise, and transaction. To do this well, we need category leaders who don’t just understand collectibles — they live inside them.</p> <p>The <strong>Trading Cards Category Manager</strong> is the single-threaded owner of collectibles category growth within a new, high-priority commerce initiative. This person is the in-house expert on trading cards and sports cards, — and is responsible for translating that expertise into supply growth, engagement, and GMV.</p> <p>You will act as:</p> <ul> <li>The internal authority on the first-hand and second-hand trading cards ecosystem</li> <li>The external face of StockX to collectors, breakers, shops, graders, dealers, and community leaders</li> <li>The architect of the trading cards go-to-market playbook for this new initiative</li> </ul> <p>This role blends deep cultural fluency, strategic ownership, and hands-on execution. Early on, you will own everything related to trading cards within this initiative. As the category scales, you will grow into a leader overseeing a broader trading cards portfolio and team.</p> <h4><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></h4> <h3><strong>Own the Collectibles Category End-to-End</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Define and execute the growth strategy for trading cards within the platform</li> <li>Own category-level performance across supply, engagement, and revenue</li> <li>Establish quarterly goals, leading indicators, and operating rhythms</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Be the Market & Culture Expert</strong></h3> <p>Maintain deep, current knowledge of trading card culture, including:</p> <ul> <li>Key sellers, breakers, dealers, shops, graders, creators, and brands</li> <li>Sub-segments such as trading cards (sports and TCG), graded sports cards, etc.</li> <li>Product drops, set releases, grading cycles, convention moments, and cultural spikes</li> <li>Pricing dynamics, liquidity, population reports, grading premiums, and resale economics</li> </ul> <p>Serve as the internal voice of the trading cards community, informing product, marketing, and platform decisions.</p> <h3><strong>Supply & Creator Acquisition</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Build and own a pipeline of high-impact sellers across trading cards, sports cards, etc.</li> <li>Personally recruit and onboard flagship sellers, breakers, comic shops, etc. who set the tone for the platform</li> <li>Develop seller strategies that balance credibility, storytelling, and commerce</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Commerce Strategy & Category Moments</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Identify and orchestrate trading card-specific moments, campaigns, and formats that drive engagement and conversion (e.g., major set releases, championship spikes, grading returns, convention cycles)</li> <li>Partner with Category Marketing to design culturally authentic activations</li> <li>Experiment with new approaches (live breaks, expert drops, themed auctions, etc.) and iterate quickly based on performance and feedback</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Cross-Functional Leadership</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Work closely with Account and Partnerships Managers to scale seller acquisition and support</li> <li>Collaborate with Product and Engineering to shape features and tools that matter to collectors (e.g., condition transparency, grading integrations, pricing insights, population data visibility)</li> <li>Provide clear, actionable insights from the market to influence roadmap prioritization</li> </ul> <h3><strong>Build the Playbook</strong></h3> <ul> <li>Document learnings, frameworks, and best practices that can be reused across future categories</li> <li>Help define what “great” looks like for category ownership at StockX</li> <li>Support hiring and onboarding as the trading card category team grows</li> </ul> <h4><strong>About You:</strong></h4> <ul> <li>Deeply embedded in trading card culture — you know the people, platforms, trends, grading standards, and economics, and you’re already plugged into the ecosystem</li> <li>5+ years of experience in category management, partnerships, marketplace growth, brand, dealer, or operator roles within trading cards, sports cards, comics, toys, coins, or adjacent enthusiast ecosystems</li> <li>Comfortable owning outcomes, not just strategy — you execute, iterate, and adapt</li> <li>Strong relationship builder with credibility among collectors, breakers, shop owners, graders, dealers, and community members</li> <li>Data-literate and commercially minded — you understand pricing spreads, grading premiums, liquidity, margin structures, and incentives</li> <li>Entrepreneurial, scrappy, and energized by building some