Rare Candy
To apply:
Email your resume and a cover letter walking us through why you're a great fit for this role alongside your background and interest in Trading Cards to
recruiting@ . Location:
Remote flexible (EST overlap preferred, in-person NYC ideal) Compensation:
competitive salary + meaningful equity Department:
Product Development Reports to:
CEO About Rare Candy Rare Candy is revolutionizing the $2B tradingcard industry as the only community marketplace 100% dedicated to TCGs. Collectors use our AIpowered card scanner, datarich collection tools, and jawdropping drops to buy, sell, and showcase Pokmon, MTG, Lorcana, OnePiece, and more. We grew almost 30 last year and arent slowing downjoin us as we scale the definitive home for TCG enthusiasts. The Role Were looking for an envelope-pushing
Product Design Lead
who can deliver pixel-perfect designs, influence vision, and create obsessively fun experiences for die-hard fans. Youll own the endtoend product experiencefrom discovery to polished UIguiding features that delight collectors and dealers of all shapes and sizes. If you love crafting magnetic interfaces, going deep with passionate users, and building alongside product-conscious engineers, youll thrive here. Bonus points if youre a designer-who-codes, loves using cutting-edge tools for prototyping and user research, and are a true trading card nerd at heart. What Success Looks Like First 30 days:
Audit current web & iOS experiences, get oriented on the roadmap for the next 90 days, then design and ship your first WAU-driving feature By end of month 3:
Continue roadmapped feature work while establishing a scalable design system in Figma + code for our suite of social collecting apps (web, iOS, Android) By Month 6:
Quadruple WAUs through category-defining collecting features What Youll Do Help design Product Vision
Contribute to product strategy with the leadership group, translating collector insights into game-changing Lead & Execute Design
Own discovery, wireframes, prototypes, UI, motion, and polish for web (NextJS), iOS (SwiftUI), and Android (React Native) Build a Design System
Extend our baseline token system, with thoughtfully-structured components and documentation that enable engineers and future designers to move fast while maintaining our market lead on craft Champion User Research
Plan and run qualitative & quantitative studies to validate problems and solutions, then translate your findings into clear execution paths alongside the leadership team Collaborate Closely
Work shouldertoshoulder with product, growth, and engineering to ship every week, not every quarter Measure Impact
Build with behavioral metrics at the center of your process, iterating relentlessly based on data (not ego) A Day in Your Life at Rare Candy Morning:
Soak up the release announcement for a new Pokmon set, scan out the latest posts in our feed, and get a pulse check on usage metrics over the last 24 hours. Midday:
Join standup with your update on a new feature prototype for our card scanner tag a front-end engineer for quick feedback. Afternoon:
start recruiting external testers for your prototype, wrapping up the day dogfooding the latest build of the app in TestFlight. You Might Be a Fit If Youve spent 5+ years designing consumer products and have experience guiding other designers Your portfolio demonstrates best-in-class product instincts, balancing polished aesthetics and user-backed decision-making with business requirements and impact Youre in Figma (autolayout, variants), prototype tools (origami), code prototyping (Cursor, React), and AI-enhanced product work Youre comfortable in fast-paced 1100 environments, juggling scrappy experiments and pixelperfect craft without breaking a sweat Youre datasavvy: proposing and designing A/B tests, reading funnels, and balancing quant with qual as needed Youre a thoughtful remote collaborator who knows when async, written, and live conversations is the right medium for the moment You have a genuine passion for the trading card hobby adjacent fandoms are a huge plus too Bonus Points From-scratch experience building a design system with Figma, Tailwind, Storybook, or similar Experience prototyping features and products with Cursor, Lovable, or Figma Make (in that order) Strength motion design, Lottie, or 3D interactions Past work in game design, marketplaces, social networks, or hobbyist communities Why Join Us Now Shape the product and brand of a category-defining social collecting community Greenfield design system ownership nothing legacy holding you back Work anywhere, collect everywhere: healthy remote culture + annual $1000 collecting stipend Ship fast with founders & engineers who celebrate wins (and rare pulls!) Equity upside in a well-funded growth-stage business Our Hiring Process 30min intro chat
with CEO & CTO Head of Engineering Portfolio deepdive
+ collaborative whiteboard exercise. Paid design challenge
(23hrs, $300). Panel interview
with Engineering, Product, and Marketing peers. Offer within 1week
of final interview. Ready to level up collecting? Email your resume, portfolio link, and a note about your favorite card art to
recruiting@
with the subject line
Product Design Lead Gotta Design Em All! Rare Candy celebrates individualityfrom Pikachu collectors to Planeswalker prosand is proud to be an equalopportunity employer.
recruiting@ . Location:
Remote flexible (EST overlap preferred, in-person NYC ideal) Compensation:
competitive salary + meaningful equity Department:
Product Development Reports to:
CEO About Rare Candy Rare Candy is revolutionizing the $2B tradingcard industry as the only community marketplace 100% dedicated to TCGs. Collectors use our AIpowered card scanner, datarich collection tools, and jawdropping drops to buy, sell, and showcase Pokmon, MTG, Lorcana, OnePiece, and more. We grew almost 30 last year and arent slowing downjoin us as we scale the definitive home for TCG enthusiasts. The Role Were looking for an envelope-pushing
Product Design Lead
who can deliver pixel-perfect designs, influence vision, and create obsessively fun experiences for die-hard fans. Youll own the endtoend product experiencefrom discovery to polished UIguiding features that delight collectors and dealers of all shapes and sizes. If you love crafting magnetic interfaces, going deep with passionate users, and building alongside product-conscious engineers, youll thrive here. Bonus points if youre a designer-who-codes, loves using cutting-edge tools for prototyping and user research, and are a true trading card nerd at heart. What Success Looks Like First 30 days:
Audit current web & iOS experiences, get oriented on the roadmap for the next 90 days, then design and ship your first WAU-driving feature By end of month 3:
Continue roadmapped feature work while establishing a scalable design system in Figma + code for our suite of social collecting apps (web, iOS, Android) By Month 6:
Quadruple WAUs through category-defining collecting features What Youll Do Help design Product Vision
Contribute to product strategy with the leadership group, translating collector insights into game-changing Lead & Execute Design
Own discovery, wireframes, prototypes, UI, motion, and polish for web (NextJS), iOS (SwiftUI), and Android (React Native) Build a Design System
Extend our baseline token system, with thoughtfully-structured components and documentation that enable engineers and future designers to move fast while maintaining our market lead on craft Champion User Research
Plan and run qualitative & quantitative studies to validate problems and solutions, then translate your findings into clear execution paths alongside the leadership team Collaborate Closely
Work shouldertoshoulder with product, growth, and engineering to ship every week, not every quarter Measure Impact
Build with behavioral metrics at the center of your process, iterating relentlessly based on data (not ego) A Day in Your Life at Rare Candy Morning:
Soak up the release announcement for a new Pokmon set, scan out the latest posts in our feed, and get a pulse check on usage metrics over the last 24 hours. Midday:
Join standup with your update on a new feature prototype for our card scanner tag a front-end engineer for quick feedback. Afternoon:
start recruiting external testers for your prototype, wrapping up the day dogfooding the latest build of the app in TestFlight. You Might Be a Fit If Youve spent 5+ years designing consumer products and have experience guiding other designers Your portfolio demonstrates best-in-class product instincts, balancing polished aesthetics and user-backed decision-making with business requirements and impact Youre in Figma (autolayout, variants), prototype tools (origami), code prototyping (Cursor, React), and AI-enhanced product work Youre comfortable in fast-paced 1100 environments, juggling scrappy experiments and pixelperfect craft without breaking a sweat Youre datasavvy: proposing and designing A/B tests, reading funnels, and balancing quant with qual as needed Youre a thoughtful remote collaborator who knows when async, written, and live conversations is the right medium for the moment You have a genuine passion for the trading card hobby adjacent fandoms are a huge plus too Bonus Points From-scratch experience building a design system with Figma, Tailwind, Storybook, or similar Experience prototyping features and products with Cursor, Lovable, or Figma Make (in that order) Strength motion design, Lottie, or 3D interactions Past work in game design, marketplaces, social networks, or hobbyist communities Why Join Us Now Shape the product and brand of a category-defining social collecting community Greenfield design system ownership nothing legacy holding you back Work anywhere, collect everywhere: healthy remote culture + annual $1000 collecting stipend Ship fast with founders & engineers who celebrate wins (and rare pulls!) Equity upside in a well-funded growth-stage business Our Hiring Process 30min intro chat
with CEO & CTO Head of Engineering Portfolio deepdive
+ collaborative whiteboard exercise. Paid design challenge
(23hrs, $300). Panel interview
with Engineering, Product, and Marketing peers. Offer within 1week
of final interview. Ready to level up collecting? Email your resume, portfolio link, and a note about your favorite card art to
recruiting@
with the subject line
Product Design Lead Gotta Design Em All! Rare Candy celebrates individualityfrom Pikachu collectors to Planeswalker prosand is proud to be an equalopportunity employer.