Senior Director, Manufacturing Technology Strategy

Fanatics Collectibles•Sunnyvale, TX

4d•$220,000 - $275,000

About The Position

Fanatics Collectibles is building the global leader in next-generation collectibles. As part of the broader Fanatics ecosystem, we leverage a digital sports platform that spans over 900 sports properties and engages more than 81 million fans. Together, we are reimagining every part of the collectibles experience for fans, partners, and creators. This role serves as a subject matter expert in manufacturing scale, automation, robotics, and operational systems, helping leaders define the capabilities, operating models, decision-making structures, and strategic priorities for future card production growth. The role partners across Operations, Finance, Product, Supply Chain, Facilities, and Manufacturing Technology to identify capability gaps, guide strategic initiatives, develop scalable operating models, and provide expert review and feedback on major investments and improvement efforts. This position focuses on ensuring the organization makes sound decisions, builds the right capabilities, and develops the foundation for long-term growth and card production, rather than owning day-to-day execution. As manufacturing operations, automation investments, capacity expansion, technology deployment, and cross-functional coordination increase in complexity, this role provides dedicated expertise and organizational capacity to help the business define its future direction, identify required capabilities, and complete foundational work. By partnering across various departments and executive leadership, this position ensures the organization builds the necessary systems, processes, mechanisms, and capabilities for effective scaling.

Requirements

Subject matter expert in manufacturing scale, automation, robotics, and operational systems.
Ability to help leaders define capabilities, operating models, decision-making operating structures, and strategic priorities.
Ability to partner across Operations, Finance, Product, Supply Chain, Facilities, and Manufacturing Technology.
Ability to identify capability gaps, guide strategic initiatives, and develop scalable operating models.
Ability to provide expert review and feedback on major investments and improvement efforts.
Focus on ensuring sound decisions, building the right capabilities, and developing the foundation for long-term growth.
Expertise in manufacturing operations, automation, robotics, systems, and scale.
Ability to mentor teams and leaders on operational excellence, automation strategy, planning, and scalable execution.
Ability to help teams develop stronger business cases, planning approaches, and implementation strategies.

Nice To Haves

Experience in the collectibles industry.
Experience with card production.

Responsibilities

Help define the future-state operating model required to support growth and capacity expansion.
Identify capabilities, systems, processes, and organizational structures required to support that future state.
Develop strategic roadmaps and glidepaths for capability development.
Partner with business leaders to evaluate future capacity requirements and help define the operational, technological, and organizational capabilities required to support planned growth.
Serve as an internal expert in manufacturing operations, automation, robotics, systems, and scale.
Provide technical and operational guidance on major initiatives, investments, and improvement opportunities.
Review plans and assumptions to identify risks, gaps, and opportunities.
Identify organizational capability gaps that may limit future growth.
Partner with leaders to define ownership, roles, responsibilities, and decision-making structures.
Help establish frameworks, standards, and best practices that improve organizational effectiveness.
Facilitate alignment across functions on strategic priorities and major initiatives.
Help create appropriate forums, review mechanisms, and decision-making processes.
Provide visibility into progress, risks, dependencies, and organizational readiness.
Mentor teams and leaders on operational excellence, automation strategy, planning, and scalable execution.
Help teams develop stronger business cases, planning approaches, and implementation strategies.
Act as a force multiplier by sharing expertise and helping others succeed.
Provide regular feedback through established business review cadences.