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title: 'Lead Collectibles Buyer at Loot Labs'
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# Lead Collectibles Buyer at Loot Labs

- **Company:** Loot Labs
- **Location:** Remote
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-14
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/loot-labs/b7017ac2-755c-4e2b-b6a2-17b632b438b9

## Job description

Loot Labs is on a mission to make collecting fun. We believe that every collectible tells a story: of passion, nostalgia, and discovery.

Through our flagship product, [Boxed.gg](http://Boxed.gg) we are reimagining how the world collects by blending digital entertainment with tangible rewards, delivering nostalgia and discovery straight to the fans' doorsteps.

We are...

- Community First: We've served 1M collectors and foster an active community of over 145k+ Discord members.
- Ambitiously Led: Led by veterans from Microsoft, Twitch, 2K, and Boeing.
- Remote-First: We value high autonomy, low ego, and trust our team to build from anywhere in the world.

Since our inception in 2023, we’ve seen significant year-over-year growth. And now we're gearing up for our most ambitious year yet, with major expansions planned across product offerings, strategic partnerships, and next-generation collector experiences. If you’re ready to build products that spark joy at a global scale, you’re in the right place.

## Role Summary

We are seeking an experienced and highly knowledgeable Lead Collectibles Buyer to source sports cards, trading card games, and other collectible products for our platform. This role combines deep market expertise, vendor relationship management, negotiation, purchasing strategy, and data analysis. The ideal candidate understands both the collector community and the financial side of buying inventory, including pricing trends, liquidity, product demand, condition, and resale potential. This is a hands-on role that will involve regular travel to card shows, conventions, vendors, shops, and other sourcing opportunities.

## Key Responsibilities

- Travel to card shows, conventions, shops, and vendor locations to purchase inventory.
- Source sports cards, TCGs, sealed products, singles, and collections.
- Design loot tables and collectible product assortments.
- Build and manage relationships with vendors, dealers, shops, and distributors.
- Negotiate pricing, terms, discounts, and large purchases.
- Track market prices, demand, margins, and inventory performance.
- Maintain purchasing records, budgets, spreadsheets, and vendor data.
- Evaluate product condition, authenticity, value, and resale potential.
- Identify emerging products, players, sets, and collectible categories.
- Work with inventory, fulfillment, finance, product, and marketing teams.
- Help improve purchasing processes, standards, and pricing strategies.
- Assist with inventory management by tracking on-hand inventory, inputting new inventory into internal tools, and ensuring inventory records remain accurate and up to date.
- Represent the brand on camera at events and sourcing trips, creating short-form content that showcases our collectibles and builds audience engagement.

Required Qualifications

- 3+ years of experience buying, selling, sourcing, or evaluating collectibles.
- Expert knowledge of sports cards.
- Expert knowledge of Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Riftbound, and other major TCGs.
- Strong interest in collectibles beyond cards.
- Experience negotiating deals and managing vendor relationships.
- Strong spreadsheet, tracking, and data-analysis skills.
- Good judgment around pricing, margins, demand, and purchasing risk.
- Strong communication, organization, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to work independently and handle high-value inventory.
- Valid driver’s license and ability to travel.
- Willingness to travel up to 75%, with heavier travel during peak show seasons.
- Availability for evenings and weekends.

## About Loot Labs

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Loot Labs operates Boxed.gg, a digital collectibles platform that lets users unbox rare physical trading cards and plans to expand into digital gaming items.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, United States
- **Founded**: 2023 [[tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/lootlabs/__HwZRwfATtltOwolVAoM0wFMmeAXsDUnLUM2nzgk0bnA)]
- **Founders**: Milan (CEO) [[tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/lootlabs/__HwZRwfATtltOwolVAoM0wFMmeAXsDUnLUM2nzgk0bnA)]

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Digital collectibles / Gaming / Trading cards.
- **Target customers**: Collectors and trading card players (Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering) – B2C.
- **Mission**: To build the most exciting way for users to interact with digital collectibles through a transparent, fun, and convenient experience [[linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/loot-labs-inc)].

## Products & Services
- **[Boxed.gg](https://boxed.gg)**: A platform where fans can open virtual mystery boxes (“unbox”) and receive physical rare trading cards shipped to their home. The platform uses a “provably fair” system, clear drop tables, and a “spice meter” for transparency. Future expansion planned into digital gaming items for games like Counter-Strike and RUST [[jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/loot-labs)].

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly available.
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $7.5M raised across two rounds (Pre-seed $1.5M in May 2023; Seed $6M in Oct 2024) [[tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/lootlabs/__HwZRwfATtltOwolVAoM0wFMmeAXsDUnLUM2nzgk0bnA)].
- **Notable Investors**: BITKRAFT Ventures (lead), Sfermion, Fabric Ventures, Everyrealm [[linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/loot-labs-inc)].
- **Growth Signals**: Over 200,000 registered users, 300%+ growth in boxes opened over 12 months (Feb 2025), 100,000+ physical cards shipped; workforce grew 56.5% YoY to ~27–34 employees; offices in Seattle (2 locations) and remote team across US, UK, Canada, South Africa, Netherlands [[linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/loot-labs-inc)].

## Competitive Advantages
- **Transparency-first model**: Provably fair unboxing system, clear drop rates, and public communication.
- **Bridging physical and digital**: Unique model that ships physical collectibles while building toward digital gaming items.
- **Experienced leadership team**: Alumni from Microsoft, NASA, Boeing, LucasArts, Twitch, 2K, EA, Shopify, Apple [[jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/loot-labs)].

## Strategic Focus
- **Expand into digital gaming items**: Launch unboxing experiences for in-game skins and cosmetics for games like Counter-Strike and RUST.
- **Grow community and user base**: Active hiring for community management, editorial, and influencer marketing roles.
- **Scale operations**: Hiring for fulfillment (on-site) and senior engineering roles to support growth.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Early-stage startup with a mission to “change the game” for collectibles; transparent, community-driven approach.
- **Work model**: Remote-first with a physical office in Seattle; roles open across US and Canada (East Coast), with some on-site positions [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/loot-labs).
- **Perks**: Competitive healthcare benefits, travel to industry events, flexible remote work [[builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/loot-labs)].
- **Engineering culture**: Small technical team (~7) working on full-stack, backend, and product design; opportunity to shape the platform from early stage.

## Sources
1. [jobs.ashbyhq.com](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/loot-labs) – Job listings, about, team background, product details.
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/loot-labs-inc) – Company details, employees, growth metrics, investors, remote policy.
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/loot-labs) – Perks, culture, office locations, remote highlights.
4. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/lootlabs/__HwZRwfATtltOwolVAoM0wFMmeAXsDUnLUM2nzgk0bnA) – Funding details, founder, employee count, competitors.
5. [geekwire.com](https://www.geekwire.com) – Mentioned in GeekWire for the $6M seed round (2024).

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