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Design Lead, Fanatics Collect Marketplace

Los Angeles, CA, United States; New York, NY, United States

About Us

Fanatics is a leading global sports platform redefining how fans connect with the teams, players and moments they love. Our businesses — Fanatics Commerce, Fanatics Collectibles, Fanatics Betting & Gaming, Fanatics Events, Fanatics Advertising, Fanatics Markets and Fanatics Studios — maximize the presence and reach for hundreds of partners globally and create a one-stop experience that allows fans to buy, bet, collect, and earn, while engaging with sports in deeper, more immersive ways. This includes licensed fan gear and lifestyle products, sportsbook and iGaming, physical and digital trading cards, live events, premium sports entertainment content, credit card offerings and more. Together, they form a powerful, integrated ecosystem — connected by the Fanatics ONE loyalty program and FanCash, the currency of sport — delivering personalized experiences to over 100 million fans worldwide. Fanatics holds partnerships with over 900 sports properties, from professional leagues and players’ associations to teams, colleges and retail partners; over 7,000 athletes and celebrities; and over 2,000 retail locations, including all Lids stores. Backed by a team of more than 22,000 employees, Fanatics is committed to relentlessly enhancing the fan experience.

 

About Fanatics Collect

Fanatics Collect is redefining the trading card industry, connecting passionate collector communities with the products they love. We're backed by Fanatics — a $31B company and the world's largest sports merchandiser, with 900+ sports relationships and exclusive MLB, NFL, and NBA licensing.

Our commerce engine spans three connected marketplaces: Fanatics Live (live breaking, buy-now and auction), the Fanatics Collect Marketplace (our secondary marketplace and auction house), and TOPPS.com (primary market e-commerce for new releases and drops).

The Team

We're a distributed team across time zones and countries. We hire for intelligence and kindness, value context over control, and expect ownership — hands-on, decisive, comfortable with ambiguity.

Help shape the future of the Fanatics Collect Marketplace

The Fanatics Collect Marketplace is our secondary marketplace and auction house — the trusted, always-on venue collectors rely on to buy and sell at scale, spanning Buy Now fixed-price listings and ongoing Weekly and Premier Auctions.

We're looking for a Design Lead to own this experience end to end: making it the most enjoyable, the most trusted, the most engaging, and the easiest way for collectors to find and buy the cards they're looking for.

You'll partner closely with the Director of Product Design, Fanatics Collect E-commerce, and with the design leads for Fanatics Live and TOPPS.com, so the Marketplace feels like one part of a single, coherent Fanatics Collect experience — not a separate product.

What You'll Do

Marketplace Experience

  • Own the end-to-end design of the Fanatics Collect Marketplace — Buy Now, Weekly Auctions, and Premier Auctions.
  • Make it the easiest way to find the card a collector is looking for — search, browse, filtering, and discovery that scale as the marketplace grows.
  • Build the trust and transparency collectors expect from the world's leading auction house for trading cards — clear listings, clear provenance, clear outcomes.
  • Balance the distinct mechanics of fixed-price buying and live/ongoing auctions within one coherent experience.
  • Partner with Product and Engineering to raise the bar on usability, hierarchy, and interaction patterns.

Engagement & Trust

  • Design the moments that make bidding, buying, and selling feel exciting, not stressful — anticipation without anxiety.
  • Champion clarity and transparency at every step: pricing, fees, authentication, and order status.
  • Use data and collector feedback to continuously improve conversion, trust, and satisfaction.

Cross-Surface Coherence

  • Partner with the Live/Breaking and TOPPS.com design leads so shared patterns — search, navigation, checkout — feel consistent across all three surfaces.
  • Partner with Creative Studio so the Marketplace reflects Fanatics Collect's trusted, auction-house brand voice.
  • Partner with the Shared Experience team on the design system, search, and navigation patterns the Marketplace depends on.

Craft & Quality

  • Hold a high craft bar — every listing, every card, every transaction should feel worthy of what collectors love.
  • Push quality from concept through shipped execution, partnering closely with Engineering to preserve design intent.
  • Mentor other designers and help raise the craft standard across the team.

Who You Are

  • 7+ years of product design experience, ideally including marketplace, e-commerce, or auction/commerce design.
  • A systems thinker who can design for both fast, fixed-price buying and the anticipation of live auctions.
  • Comfortable moving from user flows and information architecture to detailed UI and interaction design.
  • Data-informed: you use research and metrics to drive decisions, not just instinct.
  • A clear communicator who can align Product, Engineering, Brand, and adjacent design leads.
  • Genuine appreciation for the trading card and collecting hobby, or real excitement to dive in.

If you don't tick every box, talk to us anyway. We know the "perfect candidate" doesn't exist, and we want people who bring their own perspective to Fanatics Collect.

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The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation.  This salary range is specific to Los Angeles and may not be applicable to other locations.  When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

Los Angeles Salary Range

$140,000 - $175,000 USD

The salary range represents base pay only and does not include short-term or long-term incentive compensation.  This salary range is specific to New York City and may not be applicable to other locations.  When determining base pay, as part of a final compensation package, we consider several factors such as location, experience, qualifications, and training. For information about our benefits, please visit https://benefitsatfanatics.com/

NYC Salary Range

$155,000 - $190,000 USD

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