About this role
Summary: Fanatics Collectibles is hiring a leader to build and scale our Digital Asset Operations function. The VP of Digital Operations will lead a 100+ person organization in multiple locations and is responsible for transforming licensed content—images, text, and templates—into fully assembled, press-ready files for the production of physical trading cards. This team is not focused on e-commerce or digital marketing assets, but on the operational engine behind every product we manufacture.
The ideal candidate brings extensive experience leading and growing large teams, driving process transformation and systems scale, and managing complex content workflows—particularly in high-volume, deadline-driven environments. Experience with post-M&A integration, change management, and cross-functional operations is key, as is a passion for sports, culture, and collectibles. This role can be based in Dallas or the Ft. Lauderdale area.
What you will be doing...
- Integrating multiple different teams, spread out across multiple different locations.
- Building the leadership team (both organically and inorganically) that can grow the organization to support 2-3x volume growth
- Leading the development of highly reliable, high performing leaders who engage and foster team accountability.
- Streamline the flow of deliverables throughout the functions within your organization (editorial, prepress, retouching, QA/QC, etc).
- Create strategic, technical and staffing planning roadmaps that enable the throughput and capacity needed to support all other functions (product, design, manufacturing)
- Build out a world-class, data driven organization that delivers quicker turn-around times and higher complexity than has previously been known to exist.
Ideal experience we are looking for...
- Minimum 12 years work experience, with 7-8+ years of leading multiple different functions and workflows (expertise leading post-M&A integration processes strongly preferred)
- “Digital Factory” Builder (e.g., game development, claims processing, mortgage processing, etc.)
- Experience building and managing organizations of 100+ individuals in a high growth environment
- Thoughtful performance manager – able to drive and manage performance at every level of their organization
- World class problem solver – able to dive into the details of problems with the team to help them understand the problems and develop solutions
- Change leader - excited to drive change, integrate multiple different teams and functions and able to prioritize and remain flexible in high pressure dynamic situations
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Fanatics Collectibles is a new model and vision for the hobby, fundamentally changing the experience for current and future collectors, leagues, and players across many U.S. and international professional and college sports. The organization has long-term, exclusive rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards for several sports and entertainment properties, including MLB, MLBPA, the Premier League, MLS, UFC, Formula 1 as well as Disney, Marvel, Pixar, and Star Wars, among others. In January 2022, Fanatics Collectibles announced the acquisition of Topps, establishing the preeminent licensed trading card brand as the cornerstone of Fanatics’ trading cards and collectibles business, and jumpstarted its MLB and MLBPA rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards
Other facts
About Fanatics
The Topps Company, Inc. is the iconic, preeminent leader in physical and digital collectibles. Acquired by Fanatics Collectibles in January 2022, Topps is the company's cornerstone licensed trading card brand.
Founded in 1938, The Topps Company started in confections with "Topps Gum" (later introducing Bazooka Bubble Gum) and released its first trading card set in 1950. Today, the company produces trading cards and collectibles, custom cards, memorabilia, sticker album collections and more related to iconic and pop culture brands such as Major League Baseball, Major League Soccer, Star Wars, Bundesliga, UEFA Champions League, World Wrestling Entertainment and Garbage Pail Kids. Fanatics Collectibles has also secured long-term, exclusive rights to design, manufacture and distribute trading cards for several additional sports properties, including NBA, NBPA and NFLPA, in the coming years.
Topps’ Digital Apps division 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, KICK, NHL SKATE, Star Wars Card Trader, The Walking Dead Universe Collect, WWE SLAM, Marvel Collect! and Disney Collect! https://play.toppsapps.com/.
Headquartered in New York City, Topps maintains offices in several countries including the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, India and Brazil.
What you'll do
- The VP of Digital Operations will lead a large organization responsible for transforming licensed content into press-ready files for trading cards. This includes integrating teams, building leadership, and streamlining workflows.
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