Senior Product Manager, Marketplace at Courtyard.io in New York, NY

Job description

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 sponge. You have absorbed as much as you can, you have mapped the Marketplace as it actually exists (buyer and seller side), you have met everyone who touches it, and you have an opinion about the two or three things that are quietly the highest impact opportunities to focus on. By 60 days. You're a do-er. You have shipped something. Small is fine. We want to see you take a thing from 0-to-1. You have also drafted the first version of the Marketplace roadmap and gotten it torn apart by engineering, design, and marketing. By 90 days. Look at me... You're the captain now. The Marketplace roadmap is a living, breathing artifact that the team actually uses. Engineering, marketing, and leadership trust your judgment. You are running at least one workstream end-to-end with no supervision. You're the true owner of the Marketplace product. What we're looking for We care more about what you can do than how many years you have been doing it. That said, this is a senior seat and you should be able to operate without a net. Marketpl