Category Manager - Trading Cards

ABOUT THE ROLE We are seeking a highly skilled and knowledgeable Trading Cards Category Manager to lead the growth of collectibles category within a new, high-priority commerce initiative at StockX. As the in-house expert on trading cards and sports cards, you will be responsible for translating your expertise into supply growth, engagement, and revenue. This role requires a deep understanding of trading card culture, including key sellers, breakers, dealers, shops, graders, creators, and brands. WHAT YOU'LL DO As the Trading Cards Category Manager, you will own the collectibles category end-to-end, defining and executing the growth strategy for trading cards within the platform. Your responsibilities will include: - Defining and executing the growth strategy for trading cards within the platform - Owning category-level performance across supply, engagement, and revenue - Establishing quarterly goals, leading indicators, and operating rhythms - Maintaining deep, current knowledge of trading card culture, including key sellers, breakers, dealers, shops, graders, creators, and brands - Serving as the internal voice of the trading cards community, informing product, marketing, and platform decisions - Building and owning a pipeline of high-impact sellers across trading cards, sports cards, etc. - Personally recruiting and onboarding flagship sellers, breakers, comic shops, etc. - Developing seller strategies that balance credibility, storytelling, and commerce - Identifying and orchestrating trading card-specific moments, campaigns, and formats that drive engagement and conversion - Partnering with Category Marketing to design culturally authentic activations - Experimenting with new approaches and iterating quickly based on performance and feedback - Working closely with Account and Partnerships Managers to scale seller acquisition and support - Collaborating with Product and Engineering to shape features and tools that matter to collectors - Providing clear, actionable insights from the market to influence roadmap prioritization - Documenting learnings, frameworks, and best practices that can be reused across future categories - Helping define what “great” looks like for category ownership at StockX WHAT YOU'LL NEED To be successful in this role, you will need: - Deeply embedded in trading card culture, with knowledge of the people, platforms, trends, grading standards, and economics - 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 - Comfortable owning outcomes, not just strategy, and executing, iterating, and adapting - Strong relationship builder with credibility among collectors, breakers, shop owners, graders, dealers, and community members - Data-literate and commercially minded, with understanding of pricing spreads, grading premiums, liquidity, margin structures, and incentives - Entrepreneurial, scrappy, and energized by building something from the ground up WHY REMOTE StockX offers a remote work environment that allows for flexibility and autonomy. As a remote employee, you will have the opportunity to work from anywhere and manage your own schedule, while still being part of a dynamic and growing team. BENEFITS StockX offers a competitive salary and benefits package, including [insert benefits