What You'll Do
- Manage the development of trading card products, collector sets, accessories, and promotional items from concept through production.
- Collaborate with design, licensing, marketing, and sales teams to create innovative products that align with market trends and company objectives.
- Develop product specifications, packaging requirements, and production timelines.
- Evaluate new product opportunities, materials, printing techniques, finishes, and collector-focused features.
- Monitor industry trends, competitor products, and collector preferences to inform future product development.
- Identify, evaluate, and onboard domestic and international manufacturers, printers, and suppliers.
- Negotiate pricing, production terms, MOQs, lead times, and supplier agreements.
- Build and maintain strong supplier relationships to ensure quality, reliability, and cost efficiency.
- Source materials including card stock, packaging components, specialty finishes, promotional inserts, and collectibles-related accessories.
- Develop contingency sourcing strategies to mitigate supply chain risks.
- Manage production schedules to ensure products are delivered on time and within budget.
- Coordinate with suppliers, logistics partners, and internal teams throughout the manufacturing process.
- Track project milestones and proactively resolve production delays or quality concerns.
- Monitor inventory requirements and collaborate with operations teams on forecasting and replenishment planning.
- Ensure compliance with applicable safety, labeling, and regulatory requirements.
- Establish and maintain product quality standards across all product lines.
- Review production samples, proofs, prototypes, and pre-production runs.
- Conduct vendor performance evaluations and implement continuous improvement initiatives.
- Resolve quality issues and oversee corrective action plans with suppliers.
- Develop and manage product cost targets and production budgets.
- Analyze product margins and identify cost-saving opportunities without compromising quality.
- Support annual product roadmaps and long-term sourcing strategies.
- Prepare reports and recommendations for senior leadership regarding product performance and supplier partnerships.
Who You Are
Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Product Development, Operations, Marketing, or a related field.
5+ years of experience in product development, sourcing, procurement, or manufacturing management.
Experience managing overseas suppliers and manufacturing partners.
Strong negotiation and vendor management skills.
Excellent project management and organizational abilities.
Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and ERP/project management systems.
Ability to manage multiple product launches simultaneously.
Experience in trading cards, collectibles, tabletop gaming, sports licensing, toys, publishing, or consumer products.
Knowledge of card printing processes, packaging production, and collectibles manufacturing.
Familiarity with international sourcing and import/export logistics.
Experience working with licensed intellectual property products.
Passion for trading cards, collectibles, sports, gaming, or pop culture.
Product Innovation
Strategic Sourcing
Vendor Negotiation
Supply Chain Management
Cost Analysis & Budgeting
Cross-Functional Leadership
Quality Management
Problem Solving
Project Management
Market Trend Analysis
On-time product launches
Product quality and defect rates
Gross margin performance
Supplier performance and reliability
Inventory efficiency
- Customer and Collector satisfaction
New product development cycle times
Preferred Skills
Key Competencies
Success Metrics
What We Offer
- Best in class health, dental, and vision insurance
- Healthcare FSA
- Dependent Care FSA
- Commuter Benefits FSA
- Short-term/long-term disability and life insurance
- Paid Parental leave
- 401k with 4% match
- Pet Insurance
- Legal and Identity Theft Plans
- Flexible PTO
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Product Development, Operations, Marketing, or related field.
- 5+ years of experience in product development, sourcing, procurement, or manufacturing management.
- Experience managing overseas suppliers and manufacturing partners.
- Strong negotiation and vendor management skills.
- Excellent project management and organizational abilities.
- Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel and ERP/project management systems.
- Ability to manage multiple product launches simultaneously.
- Experience in trading cards, collectibles, tabletop gaming, sports licensing, toys, publishing, or consumer products.
- Knowledge of card printing processes, packaging production, and collectibles manufacturing.
- Familiarity with international sourcing and import/export logistics.
- Experience working with licensed intellectual property products.
- Passion for trading cards, collectibles, sports, gaming, or pop culture.
What We Do
Complex NTWRK champions the people, brands and new trends you need to know now, will obsess over next, and we build consumer universes around them. We're what a modern entertainment company looks like and what others have followed since 2002. From pop culture and style (Complex), music discovery (Pigeons and Planes), sneaker news (Sole Collector) to our festival of cultural convergence (ComplexCon) — if you want to be part of what's next and build valuable relationships with the audiences who live in it, join us at Complex NTWRK. Complex NTWRK creates and distributes original programming with premium distributors including Netflix, Hulu, Facebook, Snap, Fuse, Pluto TV, Roku and more. Our content spans across music to movies, sports to video games, sneakers, fashion to food and more. In 2016, Complex launched its flagship event ComplexCon in Long Beach, California, to bring the "Internet to life."
