Sr. Innovation & Testing Project Manager

About this role

Fanatics Collectibles is looking for a determined Senior Project Manager with experience leading empirical research projects to manage product innovations through the testing process, delivering actionable insights that drive the business. This role blends technical testing expertise with project leadership, ensuring that new card manufacturing processes, materials, constructions, and technologies meet stringent quality, durability, and compliance standards.


Primary responsibilities: guide and drive the testing process from “receipt to results” by:

• Partnering with stakeholders to define and design testing processes, maintaining accountability for testing timelines, aligning success criteria, to ensure complete documentation of the activities and results
• Managing testing process, timelines, and coordination of resources
• Managing the innovation funnel from ideas through testing and validation to scale implementation
• Producing repeatable work products (testing briefs, test findings, change-management documents, budgets/costing, etc.) that effectively transfer knowledge to the organization for effective testing activities and results

What You Will Be Doing…
1A: Project management expertise, with the ability to:

• Assemble cross-functional teams for testing projects
• Lead the development of thorough testing plans, criteria, and requirements
• Identify opportunities to engage additional resources and expertise (internally and externally)
• Gain alignment of expectations and effort
• Create and maintain timelines for testing and scaling successful tests
• Work with and through functional managers and other leaders to execute testing in a timely manner
• Provide direction to Innovation team members

1B: Scientific-method orientation, with an ability to:

• Develop methodic and complete testing protocols to validate new materials, constructions, technologies, processes, etc.
• Observe the current state and rigorously challenge assumption...