Senior Product Development & Brand Manager

About this role

Build the trading cards collectors will chase next.
Pulse Trading Cards is a rapidly growing trading-card manufacturer developing sports and licensed collectible products for hobby shops, major retailers, and collectors directly.
Our portfolio includes brands such as Big League Chew, Foundry, Drift, and Aura, with an expanding pipeline of sports, entertainment, and consumer-brand collaborations. We’re looking for a Senior Product Development & Brand Manager to own assigned brands and product lines, create distinctive releases, and build the detailed configurations that turn great concepts into finished products.
This is a hands-on role combining creative product development, deep hobby knowledge, and strong analytical skills. You should be equally comfortable developing an original insert concept, evaluating an autograph checklist, and building an Excel model that reconciles every card, pack, box, and case.
You’ll work directly with our CEO and collaborate with Creative, Athlete Partnerships, Project Management, Operations, Sales, and Marketing.

What you’ll own
Brand strategy and release planning

• Own the product direction and release roadmap for assigned brands, sports, or licensed properties.
• Define each brand’s audience, positioning, signature features, and place within the Pulse portfolio.
• Develop original product concepts, inserts, parallels, autograph programs, and chase cards.
• Plan how products evolve across releases while preserving the features collectors recognize and value.
• Recommend release timing, formats, production quantities, and channel-specific configurations using collector demand, sales input, and business priorities.

Set builds and product configurations

• Personally build and maintain detailed checklists, configuration models, and product-development workbooks.
• Define base sets, inserts, parallels, autograph content, numbering, and pack, box, and case structures.
• Calculate card quantities, autogra...