Product Design Lead

Job Description

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@rarecandy.com .

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 trading‑card industry as the only community marketplace 100% dedicated to TCGs. Collectors use our AI‑powered card scanner, data‑rich collection tools, and jaw‑dropping drops to buy, sell, and showcase Pokémon, MTG, Lorcana, One Piece, and more. We grew almost 30× last year and aren’t slowing down—join us as we scale the definitive home for TCG enthusiasts.

The Role

We’re 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. You’ll own the end‑to‑end product experience—from discovery to polished UI—guiding 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, you’ll thrive here. Bonus points if you’re 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 You’ll Do

A Day in Your Life at Rare Candy

Morning : Soak up the release announcement for a new Pokémon set, scan out the latest posts in our feed, and get a pulse check on usage metrics over the last 24 hours.

Mid‑day : 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

Bonus Points

Why Join Us Now

Our Hiring Process

Ready to level up collecting?

Email your resume, portfolio link, and a note about your favorite card art to recruiting@rarecandy.com with the subject line “Product Design Lead — Gotta Design ’Em All!”

Rare Candy celebrates individuality—from Pikachu collectors to Planeswalker pros—and is proud to be an equal‑opportunity employer.