Product Manager - Topps - New York, NY

Headquartered in New York, NY, The Topps Company is a leading creator and marketer of sports and entertainment products and distinctive confections. Topps’ North America Sports and Entertainment division produces trading cards, sticker album collections, and collectible games related to iconic global brands such as Major League Baseball, National Football League, Major League Soccer, Star Wars, English Premiere League, Bundesliga, UEFA Champions League, and World Wrestling Entertainment. The company has also expanded its portfolio of products to include digital trading cards. Topps Digital Apps produces, develops and operates mobile applications that give you access to an exclusive digital card collection at your fingertips that are sold via the Apple and Google app stores under the brand names BUNT, HUDDLE, KICK, and Star Wars Card Trader. Topps’ confectionery brands, which are marketed under its Bazooka Candy Brands division, include Bazooka bubble gum, Ring Pop, Push Pop, Baby Bottle Pop, and Juicy Drop Pop confectionery items.

The Topps Company was founded in 1938 as Topps Chewing Gum, and in its early years produced a popular penny “Topps Gum” from a factory in Brooklyn, NY. After World War II, the company developed Bazooka Bubble Gum, and in 1950, added trading cards to its product line. Baseball cards appeared in 1951 and quickly became a vital part of pop culture, a tradition that continues to this day.

Topps was acquired in October of 2007 by Madison Dearborn Partners, a private equity group, and The Tornante Company, an investment company owned by Michael Eisner, former CEO of Disney. Although headquartered in New York City, Topps maintains offices in nine countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, India, Brazil and Argentina. The new ownership of the company has made significant infrastructure, business and cultural advancements.

For additional information please visit: www.topps.com

Responsibilities:
Topps Digital is a tech start-up located within the American trading card company. We are building new digital sports experiences under the iconic “Topps” brand name and currently seeking a Product Manager to join or rapidly expanding team.

The Product Manager supporting Topps Digital is a Swiss Army Knife. In this role you will guide the team vision, define road-maps and ship quality products. You need to be able to understand all the facets of the product from the forward facing applications, to the content management system for our live operations team. You will be working with engineers, artists, user acquisition specialists and project managers to create the best product experience possible. You need to be able to speak all of their languages and easily move between all those worlds.

What does our ideal candidate look like:
Game Designer/Businessperson: You know how to make the product fun and engaging for the players, but can also manage your KPI’s to ensure the financials are healthy.

A Product Builder : Your core strength is building products. you can sit with a designer, analyst and a team of developers to build something you are proud of. You sweat the Small stuff, whether its how a list scrolls or the default settings for users.

A Quick Learner With Intellectual Curiosity : Your core may not be the operations, editorial or marketing, but you are willing to learn and do new things outside your comfort zone. You are a person who is happy to learn as you go.

Consultant: You are a master of the product who can provide guidance to your live operations team, or just as comfortably sit with an artist to help understand how the look and feel of your product should be. You are comfortable building a PowerPoint deck to explain and teach facets of the product to the executive team or an outside partner.

Qualifications:
You Should Have:
BA/BS Degree

3 years of product management experience

1 year or more as a product lead

We have offices in both New York City and Orlando Florida, and will consider candidates in both locations. Please be sure to submit your most recent resume with all applications, applications without resumes will not be considered and we are not accepting submissions from staffing agencies at this time.