Collectibles Product & AI Operations Specialist (Sports Cards)

Why this job is different from the other card jobs you’re looking at

Most sports card jobs are sorting jobs. You put cards in order, somebody else decides what they’re worth, and that is the whole arc of the role.

This one starts with product in your hands, and it does not stay there. Within your first year you will be helping decide what a collection is worth, what gets graded, what gets listed raw, and what gets held. You will sit in on collection buys. You will work national shows. And you will be expected to use AI tools to take the tedious parts of your own job and make them disappear.

We are an authorized dealer for PSA, CGC and JSA, moving thousands of items a week across eBay, live selling platforms and the national show circuit. We are small enough that one person’s judgment moves the number at the bottom of the page, and busy enough that you will see more product in six months here than most collectors handle in a decade.

What you will actually do

• Sort, identify and condition raw cards by year, set, parallel and variation, and make the call on what is worth sending to PSA, BGS, SGC or CGC
• Catalog inventory with real precision, because a wrong serial number or a missed parallel is a wrong price
• Handle high value raw singles and complete collections carefully, sleeved, loaded and stored the way they deserve
• Verify that listings, photos and descriptions match the physical item before anything goes live
• Keep product moving through the building, from intake to photography to vault to live sale
• Build and improve the AI assisted workflows we use for cataloging, describing, researching and pricing inventory
• Grow into collection evaluation, buying support and show work as you learn our business

The AI part, specifically

This is not a buzzword we dropped into a job posting. We are actively rebuilding how we catalog, price and list inventory, and we want the person in this seat helping build it rather than waiting for it to arrive.

You do not need a technical background and you do not need to have written a line of code. What we want is someone who reaches for ChatGPT or Claude the way other people reach for a calculator.

Someone who has already used these tools to speed up something real, and who has good instincts about where they are reliable and where they quietly get things wrong. If you have ever looked at a repetitive task and thought there has to be a faster way to do this, that instinct is most of what we are hiring for.

We pay for the tools. We will teach you the rest.

Where this goes

Your first few months are hands on and volume heavy. You are learning our systems, our pricing sources, our grading standards and our customers, and you are doing it with product in front of you, because that is the only way anyone actually learns this.

From there you start owning categories, making grade or no grade calls on your own, and building the workflows the rest of the team uses. Pay moves with that. Past the first year, the people who want it move toward collection evaluation, buying trips and running a piece of the operation, and we will have that conversation honestly when you get there.

You will do well here if

• You genuinely know the hobby. You can tell a base from a short print, you know why centering matters, and you have opinions about the 2026 market
• You catch the soft corner on card four hundred of the day, not just card four
• You are comfortable in an open, active, sometimes loud warehouse and you like moving
• You are already using AI tools for something, or you are the kind of person who will have figured them out by week three
• You want to learn the money side of this business, not just the product side

This is probably not the right fit if

• You want remote or hybrid. This is on-site in Amityville, and it has to be, because the product is here
• You want a quiet desk and a defined process for everything. Plenty of what you will do does not have a process yet, which is exactly why we want your ideas
• You love cards but do not want to handle thousands of them. The volume is real and it is the job

What we need from you

• Real, current hobby knowledge across modern and vintage. Topps, Panini, Upper Deck, Bowman, plus signed memorabilia
• Attention to detail that holds up under volume
• Comfort on a computer. Spreadsheets should not intimidate you
• Reliable transportation to our Amityville location
• 18 or older and legally authorized to w…