Principal Product Manager - New Card Factory

About the Team

Fanatics Collectibles is a new company operating at the intersection of collectibles, culture, and technology. Backed by world-class investors, operators, and sports & entertainment partners, we are building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators.

We are hiring a Principal Product Manager (Individual Contributor) to own and evolve our Pre-Press and Editorial (PP&E) technology platforms. PP&E represents the software and workflows responsible for transforming creative intent and strategic data into print-ready assets that ultimately become physical trading cards.

Principal Product Manager is our most senior IC Product role, and the role will have exceptionally high ownership and autonomy. This individual will work within our product and technology team and external vendors to tackle some of the most complex, ambiguous, and high-leverage problems in the PP&E workflow.

What You’ll Do

• Own the Pre-Press and Editorial product portfolio that turns card concepts into print-ready files, including software across workflows such as mastering and asset ingestion, image selection, cropping and editing, card composition, imposition, and handoff to manufacturing.
• Decide how work gets done across this portfolio, including when to build new software, stabilize or refactor existing systems, or integrate with third-party and vendor platforms.
• Simplify and automate highly manual, error-prone workflows between creative teams and manufacturing, reducing rework, cycle time, and inconsistencies in print-ready outputs.
• Apply AI and automation to real production problems by improving adoption of existing capabilities (e.g., AI card-back copy generation), delivering in-flight efforts (e.g., validation and error detection), and identifying where AI can remove steps entirely.
• Work hands-on with engineering and data teams to turn AI and workflow ideas into reliable, production-ready systems, not prototypes.
• Deliver results through shared ownership and collaboration with business operations, internal software teams, and external vendors, while maintaining end-to-end accountability across a highly matrixed environment.
• Operate as a Principal-level Individual Contributor, setting the bar for product judgment, execution quality, and cross-team partnership, and influencing other PMs through example

What We’re Looking For

• 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex, operationally critical platforms, and ability to use various product development software (Atlassian Suite, Figma, Text Editors, etc…).
• Proven success operating as a Principal-level Individual Contributor, owning strategy and execution for large problem spaces.
• Deep experience with workflow-heavy systems that involve creative, editorial, media, or production pipelines.
• Strong intuition for how businesses use tools like Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, or similar creative systems, even if you’re not a daily user.
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI and automation to real-world product problems, with strong product judgment around feasibility and impact.
• Experience in building and applying RAG Models and Evaluation frameworks.
• Exceptional collaborator who can drive alignment across teams, vendors, and business partners without formal authority.
• Clear, persuasive communicator with strong executive presence.

Bonus Points

• Experience integrating or extending third-party creative or production systems.
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) to develop software or accelerate product requirement definition
• Familiarity with DAMs, design systems, print production workflows, or creative tooling ecosystems.
• Passion for trading cards, collectibles, and creative production at scale.

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