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About the Role

Rare Candy is revolutionizing the trading-card industry with an AI-powered community marketplace. We are seeking a versatile individual to own the entire product and design arc, from customer research to engineering handoff. This is a unique opportunity to be the first full-time product and design hire, shaping the future of a fast-growing, profitable company and defining how modern AI-era product teams are built.

Responsibilities

Own product end to end: from customer research and data to problem framing, to spec, to design, to high-fidelity prototype, to testing, to engineering handoff.
Prototype to validate, not to ship, using high-fidelity, interactive prototypes in Figma, Figma Make, Cursor, or similar tools.
Stay close to the customer and the numbers, balancing qualitative research and quantitative data.
Partner with the CEO daily on framing key decisions, strategy, building prototypes, and working through feedback.
Collaborate cleanly with engineering on handoff and build.
Contract design support is available when needed.
Build the product muscle: establish just enough process to ship reliably and fast.
Grow into the product leader of this company.

Requirements

6 to 10 years of experience shipping high-quality consumer products.
Track record of high-impact work in high-velocity environments, ideally in an early-stage startup.
Demonstrated ownership and impact are valued over exact years or titles.
Ability to flex into product management, UX, and design.
Strong intuitive sense of user needs and polished, delightful product.
Fast and fluent with AI-powered prototyping tools (Figma, Claude Design, Cursor, etc.).
Deeply customer-oriented and comfortable with data.
Ability to conduct research, read a funnel, and balance customer needs against business needs.
Operate with high agency and a bias to action.
Take responsibility for your own growth and leverage.
Move decisively and orient relentlessly toward impact.
High-trust, low-ego partner.
Energized by working closely with a hands-on founder.
True trading-card and collectibles nerd: collect, play, or have real fluency in the hobby.
Ability to share two or three products personally owned from problem framing through shipped impact or tested prototype.
Ability to share portfolio links that show product thinking and UX or design craft.
Ability to share one spec, prototype, research synthesis, or handoff artifact that made engineering faster or clearer.
Ability to identify the biggest product opportunity to improve versus the market.
Ability to prove real trading-card fluency, including what is collected or played, favorite era, set, card, or collector niche, and a sharp take on where the hobby is going.

Skills

Product Management
Product Design
UX Design
Prototyping
Figma
Figma Make
Cursor
AI-powered prototyping tools
Customer Research
Data Analysis
Quantitative Data
Qualitative Research
Problem Framing
Specification
Engineering Handoff
Trading Card Hobby Fluency

Location

NYC-based
Remote (with significant time co-located with CEO in New York)

Work Type

Full-time
Startup

Experience Level

Senior
Early-stage startup experience preferred

Salary/Compensations

Competitive startup compensation
Meaningful equity upside

Benefits

Health coverage
Dental coverage
Vision coverage
401(k)
Wellness stipend
Monthly dogfooding budget to spend on cards

About the Company

Rare Candy is revolutionizing the $25 billion trading-card industry as the only community marketplace 100% dedicated to TCGs.
Collectors use our AI-powered card scanner, data-rich collection tools, and jaw-dropping drops to buy, sell, rip, and showcase Pokémon, MTG, Lorcana, One Piece, and more.
We've hit 10x revenue growth over the last 6 months, the business is highly profitable.
We're building the team to take this from a great product to a category-defining one.
We're a 10-person team moving fast.

Equal Opportunity

Rare Candy is an equal opportunity employer.
We celebrate individuality, from Pikachu collectors to Planeswalker pros, and are committed to building an inclusive team.