Director, Project Management
About The Position
Fanatics Collectibles is seeking a Director of Project Management to lead day-to-day execution, with a focus on its Entertainment portfolio. As additional licenses come online, this leader will help scale how licensed trading-card products are developed and brought to market. The Director will lead an existing team of project management professionals and build the processes, operating rhythms, and cross-functional alignment needed to support a growing portfolio. This builder-operator role involves resolving immediate execution challenges while creating a more predictable and scalable project management function. The role calls for experience in licensed physical products, consumer products, entertainment merchandise, or a similarly complex product-development environment, as well as comfort navigating external licensor requirements, shifting dependencies, and high-visibility launches.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive experience leading complex project or program management within licensed physical products, consumer products, entertainment merchandise, or a related environment.
- Demonstrated experience managing and developing project management professionals.
- Track record of improving processes while maintaining accountability for active, fast-moving work.
- Experience navigating external licensors, intellectual-property requirements, or other dependencies outside the organization’s direct control.
- Strong executive communication, negotiation, and stakeholder-management skills.
- Ability to bring structure and clarity to evolving, ambiguous, or high-pressure environments.
- Experience with project tracking, forecasting, and portfolio-reporting tools.
Nice To Haves
- Direct experience with Workfront or Airtable is helpful but not required.
- Interest in sports, entertainment, trading cards, or collectibles is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Lead and develop the Entertainment project management team by setting priorities, clarifying ownership, coaching team members, and fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Oversee end-to-end development and launch of multiple licensed trading-card properties, keeping dependencies, milestones, risks, and decisions visible and actively managed.
- Act as a senior escalation point for product-development and launch issues, bringing internal teams and external partners together to reach timely solutions.
- Improve project management processes, tools, reporting, and communication practices to support portfolio growth and make execution more consistent and predictable.
- Partner with product teams, executives, and external licensors, including partners unfamiliar with trading-card development.
- Anticipate potential issues, develop mitigation plans, and communicate portfolio risks and tradeoffs clearly to senior leadership.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
