Senior Product Manager, Marketplace

The posting, as Courtyard Inc. wrote it

About Courtyard

Courtyard is one of the fastest-growing collectibles startups. Courtyard turns physical collectibles into digital assets you can actually trade. From cards to sneakers to watches and more, we're making it faster, easier, and more exciting than ever to discover, collect, and trade the items you love.

We're not just another marketplace, we are the go-to exchange for digitized goods. With thrilling pack rips, instant liquidity, and trusted vaulting, Courtyard delivers the ultimate collecting experience. Whether you're buying, selling, trading, or curating your dream collection, we've built a platform that's trusted, simple, and built to scale.

And we're just getting started...

The role

You are the owner of the Marketplace. Not the coordinator of it, not the scribe for it, the owner. Pack ripping is how most people find Courtyard today. The Marketplace is how they stay, trade, and build a collection that means something to them. We are making the Marketplace a first-class citizen alongside packs, and you will be the person who drives what it becomes over the next several years. Make the case for it, get the buy in, and execute on it with a team that can move as fast as you can.

This is a two-sided marketplace role. You care as much about the seller who wants to list, price, and move inventory as you do about the buyer who wants to find the exact card, sneaker, or watch they have been hunting for. You understand liquidity, pricing, trust, and discovery, and you know which lever to pull when one side of the market is lagging the other.

You will report to the Director of Product Management and work shoulder to shoulder with engineering, design, data, operations, and marketing leadership every day.

What you'll own

• The Marketplace roadmap. A real, sequenced, defensible plan for how buying, selling, and trading work on Courtyard. You write it, you defend it, you keep it current as the business moves.
• Discovery and search. How users find items, browse categories, and get from "I'm curious" to "I bought it." Search, filters, collections, personalization, and the surfaces that make the Marketplace feel alive.
• Buy side. Listings, offers, checkout, buy-it-again, and the trust signals (pricing, condition, provenance) that make someone comfortable spending real money on an item they can't hold yet.
• Sell side. Listing flows, pricing tools, offers management, seller analytics, and the experience that turns a collector into a repeat seller. Including how items that come out of packs make their way onto the Marketplace.
• Marketplace economics. Take rate, fees, promotions, and how the Marketplace contributes to GMV and margin without sacrificing the user experience. You will work closely with finance and data on this.
• New marketplace formats. Auctions, bounties, trades, and whatever comes next. You will scope them, test them, and decide which ones earn a permanent spot.

What success looks like

First 30 days. You're a spo
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"where does the Marketplace need to be in six months and why." You will own the product strategy, but also shouldn't be afraid to get your hands dirty and define the details.

• Range. You've got to look good in hats because you will be wearing multiple. You will be running several things at once, and learning a ton along the way.

Bonus points

• Experience at an eCommerce, fintech, or gaming company that went from scrappy to structured without losing the scrappy part.
• You have been a “buyer” or “seller” somewhere. eBay, StockX, Whatnot, Etsy, Airbnb, a card show table. You know the seller side from the inside.
• You collect things. You will understand our users faster if you do.
• You're passionate about something. We don't care what it is, but you’re obsessed something so much that you have no shame in admitting it.

How we work

Small team, big impact, high velocity. We live in a new world of product management and get to build and improve our processes as we go rather than importing it from somewhere else. We view that as a feature, not a bug... and we hope you do too.

In our processes, everyone, but especially this role gets to have enormous latitude and responsibility. We want you to challenge the status quo and critically think about what we're building, but also be decisive, move fast, and build the best product for our users.

Logistics

Location. NYC-based, hybrid-expectation with plenty of remote-flexibility. As a product leader, we want you in the room with the team regularly, but we are flexible on remote days as often as you need them.

Salary Range: The base salary range for this role is $155,000–$180,000 annually. Actual compensation will be determined based on factors such as experience, skills, qualifications, and geographic location, in accordance with applicable New York pay transparency requirements.

To standout. Go buy or sell something on Courtyard and have some product feedback ready (extra bonus points if it's about the Marketplace).