Product Architect & Design Lead — Equity & Impact

Rare Candy; New York (NY); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity upside

Health, dental, and vision

401(k)

Wellness stipend

Card collecting budget

Job summary

Rare Candy is building a community marketplace for trading cards with an AI-powered toolkit, led by a CEO who deeply shapes product direction. You will own the full product and design lifecycle, from customer research and problem framing to specs, prototyping, testing, and engineering handoff.

You’ll join a small but ambitious team at an early stage, with meaningful equity upside and competitive startup compensation as you help define the category and scale products for collectors worldwide.

Qualifications

• 6–10 years shipping consumer products in high-velocity environments
• Hybrid PM/Design ownership across product and design
• Strong affinity for trading cards and hobby culture

Responsibilities

• Own product end-to-end from customer research to engineering handoff
• Prototype to validate with high-fidelity interactivity in design tools
• Stay close to customer metrics and move key activation/retention metrics
• Partner daily with the CEO to frame decisions and strategy
• Collaborate with engineering to ensure clean handoff and rapid shipping
• Build and codify product processes to scale the team

Skills

Product management

UX design

AI prototyping

Data analysis

Ownership

Collaboration

Tools

Figma

Claude Design

Cursor

Job description

Rare Candy is building a community marketplace for trading cards with an AI-powered toolkit, led by a CEO who deeply shapes product direction. You will own the full product and design lifecycle, from customer research and problem framing to specs, prototyping, testing, and engineering handoff.

You’ll join a small but ambitious team at an early stage, with meaningful equity upside and competitive startup compensation as you help define the category and scale products for collectors worldwide.