OpenSea is the first and largest marketplace for non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, which are digital goods endowed with property rights. Applications for NFTs include collectibles, gaming items, domain names, digital art, and many other items backed by a blockchain. NFTs have brand new properties that go beyond traditional digital items: they’re unique, provably scarce, liquid, and usable across multiple applications. At OpenSea, we're excited about building a brand new economy from the ground up based on true digital ownership and proud to be recognized as Y Combinator's #29 ranked top private company.

When hiring candidates, we look for signals that a candidate will thrive in our culture, where we default to trust, embrace feedback, grow rapidly, and love our work. Our team has varied backgrounds from Stanford, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Waterloo, San Jose State University, DePauw University, SUNY schools as well as those who signed record deals with Universal Music Group instead of pursuing a traditional college education. While we have experience at many of the FAANG companies, we've also worked at places like Artsy, Lime, a varying degree of start ups as well as a self-made jewelry business.

At OpenSea, we know it's critical to celebrate and support our differences. Employing a team rich in diverse thoughts, experiences and opinions enables our employees, our product and our community to flourish. We are dedicated to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status.

In this role you will be working closely with the VP, Business Development. We’re looking for a Gaming Partnerships Manager to help us build the preferred NFT marketplace for gaming, esports and trading cards by leading the creation of innovative partnerships. As the owner of the gaming category for OpenSea, you will play a critical role in developing and executing our strategy for helping stakeholders across gaming, esports and trading cards thrive on our platform. If you’re excited to work at a company that is building and shaping the future of marketplaces to empower creators and collectors, welcome to OpenSea.

- Contribute to overall partnerships strategy and lead the creation of our plan for the gaming category.

- Lead drop partnerships with both emerging and established game developers, esports properties and trading card games, owning outreach, pitch, negotiation, close and execution stages.

- Work cross-functionally with customer success, community, product, and engineering peers.

- Collaborate with product to develop tools and product features to address key needs for the gaming space.

- Develop the OpenSea brand as the leading platform for gaming, esports and trading cards.

- Build strong relationships and have experience doing so in the gaming community.

- Leverage creative thinking to close sound partnerships and help gaming partners develop successful projects.

- Are comfortable leading both large and small deals with significant autonomy.

- Utilize data to provide actionable insights and ensure we’re driving toward the best possible outcome.

- Have outstanding interpersonal skills, emotional intelligence (EQ), and ability to persuade / drive alignment among differing perspectives.

- A plus, if you have experience and/or is passionate in ecommerce and/or the blockchain.

- Launching unique and high-profile NFT drops on a regular basis.

- Managing a fast-growing inbound pipeline while building and executing an outbound outreach plan.

- Identifying & negotiating partnerships with major platforms and brands in the gaming industry.