Principal Product Manager - New Card Factory

Fanatics is building a leading global digital sports platform. They are hiring a Principal Product Manager to own and evolve their Pre-Press and Editorial technology platforms, focusing on transforming creative intent into print-ready assets for trading cards.

Responsibilities:

• Own the Pre-Press and Editorial product portfolio that turns card concepts into print-ready files, including software across workflows such as mastering and asset ingestion, image selection, cropping and editing, card composition, imposition, and handoff to manufacturing
• Decide how work gets done across this portfolio, including when to build new software, stabilize or refactor existing systems, or integrate with third-party and vendor platforms
• Simplify and automate highly manual, error-prone workflows between creative teams and manufacturing, reducing rework, cycle time, and inconsistencies in print-ready outputs
• Apply AI and automation to real production problems by improving adoption of existing capabilities (e.g., AI card-back copy generation), delivering in-flight efforts (e.g., validation and error detection), and identifying where AI can remove steps entirely
• Work hands-on with engineering and data teams to turn AI and workflow ideas into reliable, production-ready systems, not prototypes
• Deliver results through shared ownership and collaboration with business operations, internal software teams, and external vendors, while maintaining end-to-end accountability across a highly matrixed environment
• Operate as a Principal-level Individual Contributor, setting the bar for product judgment, execution quality, and cross-team partnership, and influencing other PMs through example

Requirements:

• 10+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex, operationally critical platforms, and ability to use various product development software (Atlassian Suite, Figma, Text Editors, etc...)
• Proven success operating as a Principal-level Individual Contributor, owning strategy and execution for large problem spaces
• Deep experience with workflow-heavy systems that involve creative, editorial, media, or production pipelines
• Strong intuition for how businesses use tools like Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, or similar creative systems, even if you're not a daily user
• Demonstrated ability to apply AI and automation to real-world product problems, with strong product judgment around feasibility and impact
• Experience in building and applying RAG Models and Evaluation frameworks
• Exceptional collaborator who can drive alignment across teams, vendors, and business partners without formal authority
• Clear, persuasive communicator with strong executive presence
• Experience integrating or extending third-party creative or production systems
• Experience leveraging AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., GitHub Copilot, ChatGPT, or similar) to develop software or accelerate product requirement definition
• Familiarity with DAMs, design systems, print production workflows, or creative tooling ecosystems
• Passion for trading cards, collectibles, and creative production at scale