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We let collectors buy, sell, vault, and finance their cards in one place and we are backed by leaders at Stripe, Coinbase, Seven Seven Six, and pro athletes like Tom Brady and Giannis Antetokounmpo. Our next frontier is real-time pricing at scale-the Alt Value that powers every trade, loan, and product on the platform.\nThe North Star\n$ Automatically Priced\nThe Role\nAlt Value, our pricing engine, shapes what collectors see in the app and what they can borrow against their cards. This role makes Alt Value more accurate.\nThis is a hands-on seat. You'll find new signals, build them into our pricing, and decide how our models are used.\nWhat this role is not: a reporting role or a management track.\nWhat it is: testing whether new data predicts price moves, investigating unusual sales, explaining price gaps between marketplaces, and deciding which model to trust when two disagree.\nYou'll report to the Head of Pricing Automation and work closely with Expert Pricers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers.\nThe people who do well here are obsessed with making every decision with numbers, even the uncertainty is quantified.\nWhat You'll Own\nNew data signals. Identify new signals, from market sentiment to sports outcomes, and validate their predictive power through rigorous backtesting.\n\nMarket manipulation detection. Identify potential market manipulation and unusual activity, and keep it from distorting our valuations.\n\nCross-market pricing. Design models for an inefficient market, where the same card can be mispriced from one marketplace to the next.\n\nModel selection and blending. Evaluate our pricing models and decide which to use, or how to blend them, weighing the trade-offs.\n\nRelease and routing decisions. Decide when a new model version goes live and when to switch routing.\n\nThe bets and the trade-offs. Set your own research priorities, work with Expert Pricers, data scientists, and machine learning engineers, and communicate the reasoning behind price movements.\n\nWhat Great Looks Like (6 Months)\nPricing accuracy has measurably improved.\n\nNew data sources have been tested, and the useful ones are in production.\n\nPotential manipulation is weighted in our valuations.\n\nModel selection and blending are backed by evidence.\n\nAt least one new tool or method has been adopted into our pricing.\n\nExpert Pricers rely on your work.\n\nHow You'll Use AI Here\nWe're AI-native by default. You'll stay on top of new models, tools, and techniques, and bring in what improves our pricing.\nWhat You Bring\nA track record of building pricing or forecasting models in production, and familiarity with tree-based models and newer approaches such as large language models, time-series foundation models, and graph neural networks.\n\nDepth in non-traditional or illiquid assets, such as collectibles, art, real estate, or alternative credit. 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