Category Manager - Trading Cards

Help empower our global customers to connect to culture through their passions.

Why you’ll love this role:

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.

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.

The Trading Cards Category Manager 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.

You will act as:

The internal authority on the first-hand and second-hand trading cards ecosystem

The external face of StockX to collectors, breakers, shops, graders, dealers, and community leaders

The architect of the trading cards go-to-market playbook for this new initiative

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.

What You’ll Do:

Own the Collectibles Category End-to-End

Define and execute the growth strategy for trading cards within the platform

Own category-level performance across supply, engagement, and revenue

Establish quarterly goals, leading indicators, and operating rhythms

Be the Market & Culture Expert

Maintain deep, current knowledge of trading card culture, including:

Key sellers, breakers, dealers, shops, graders, creators, and brands

Sub-segments such as trading cards (sports and TCG), graded sports cards, etc.

Product drops, set releases, grading cycles, convention moments, and cultural spikes

Pricing dynamics, liquidity, population reports, grading premiums, and resale economics

Serve as the internal voice of the trading cards community, informing product, marketing, and platform decisions.

Supply & Creator Acquisition

Build and own a pipeline of high-impact sellers across trading cards, sports cards, etc.

Personally recruit and onboard flagship sellers, breakers, comic shops, etc. who set the tone for the platform

Develop seller strategies that balance credibility, storytelling, and commerce

Commerce Strategy & Category Moments

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)

Partner with Category Marketing to design culturally authentic activations

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