Courtyard Inc.

Role Description We’re looking for a hands-on Growth Marketing Manager to run day-to-day user acquisition and ASO. You’ll set up campaigns, drive creative testing, automate reporting, analyze performance and scale profitable growth across priority channels. You’ll partner closely with Product, Data, Engineering, CRM, and Creatives to convert installs into long-term valuable customers. - Own UA execution end-to-end: Build, launch, analyze and optimize campaigns across Meta, Google Ads / UAC, Apple Search Ads, TikTok and select DSP networks. - ASO: Conduct keyword research, metadata iteration, competitive audits & analysis, App Store creative testing (icons, screenshots, trailers) to lift visibility and store CVR. - Creative Testing: Manage and drive creative testing at scale across key channels, evaluating performance metrics, develop reports and result readouts based on the data. - Measurement & reporting: Configure reports based on in-platform metrics and MMP data, and help provide meaningful insights & context. - Automation & hygiene: Drive enforcement of naming conventions across campaigns & creatives, UTMs, help with SKAN schema mapping and budget pacing. Partner with Engineering & Data to automate dashboards and QA postbacks. - Market Intelligence: Monitor competitors (creative, channels, ASO) and surface actionable insights. - Identify repetitive growth processes and build automations that improve team efficiency, speed and decision making through the use of AI. - Leverage AI tools and workflows to accelerate campaign execution, creative analysis and reporting, along with experimentation. Qualifications - 5+ years of hands-on UA experience for mobile apps (gaming or consumer preferred) - Proven operator across Meta, Google UAC, Apple Search Ads, Tiktok, strong experience with DSP / SDK networks (AppLovin, Unity, etc). - MMP fluency (Singular, AppsFlyer, Adjust), SKAN schemas / postbacks, and attribution QA experience. - Strong ASO background, keyword tools, metadata iteration & store creative testing. Experience leveraging Apple’s custom product pages, and Google Play experiments. - Analytical rigor: Strong excel & analytical skills, comfortable with SQL, Looker / dashboarding tools. - Creative partner mindset and a disciplined approach to experimentation. - Financial fluency in media planning, budget forecasting, and payback / LTV modeling. - Bias to action, excellent prioritization, and comfort operating in fast, ambiguous environments. - Strong understanding of how AI can be applied across user acquisition, creative testing, ASO and reporting for operational efficiency and outcome. Benefits - A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation - Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value - Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage - Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development - Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment - 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future - $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand - Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being

Role Description We’re seeking a Director of Operations Strategy to lead inventory strategy, category expansion, and operational planning across the business. This role sits at the center of Finance, Product, and Operations, ensuring the company invests in the right inventory, manages risk effectively, and expands into new categories with discipline and speed. The ideal candidate is highly analytical, strategic, and comfortable translating data and market signals into clear buying, capital, and operational decisions. What You’ll Do - Own the overall inventory strategy across Courtyard’s categories, balancing liquidity, velocity, margin, and customer experience while guiding buying decisions across categories and price tiers. - Partner with Finance and executive leadership to set inventory budgets, category-level buying targets, and risk parameters tied to capital allocation and marketplace demand. - Build and maintain forecasting models that inform buying strategy, inventory exposure, and redemption behavior, continuously refining them using marketplace data and post-buy performance. - Monitor inventory health across aging, redemption exposure, liquidity, and price-band coverage, surfacing risks and recommending corrective actions. - Lead the strategic evaluation and prioritization of new categories and vertical expansion opportunities, including pilots, feasibility assessments, and scaling plans. - Develop decision frameworks that enable fast, disciplined tradeoffs across buying strategy, inventory exposure, and capital risk. - Define and oversee liquidation and de-risking strategies, partnering with Finance and Operations to ensure efficient execution and incorporating insights into future buying strategy. - Serve as a central connector across Inventory, Finance, Product, Operations, and GTM to align planning, supply strategy, and marketplace initiatives. - Partner with Finance on Operations budgeting and financial planning, translating category and inventory strategy into cost assumptions, forecasts, and investment priorities. - Provide executive-level reporting and insights on inventory performance, category growth, capital exposure, and strategic opportunities. - Mentor and support team members while helping design the structure, processes, and tooling needed to scale the inventory strategy function over time. Qualifications - 8+ years of experience in operations strategy, marketplace operations, supply chain, or analytics roles. - Experience developing inventory strategy, forecasting models, and data-driven decision frameworks. - Proven ability to partner with Finance on capital allocation, budgeting, and risk management. - Experience launching or expanding product categories, marketplaces, or new business lines. - Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into clear strategic recommendations. - Track record of leading cross-functional initiatives across Product, Operations, and Finance. - Experience managing inventory health metrics (liquidity, velocity, aging, margin). - Strong communication skills with experience presenting insights to senior leadership. - Comfortable operating as a hands-on strategic leader while helping scale the team. Benefits - A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation. - Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value. - Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage. - Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development. - Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment. - 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future. - $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand. - Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being.

Role Description Courtyard is seeking a Sr. Manager of Brand Marketing to define and scale the next chapter of the Courtyard brand. This role sits at the intersection of brand strategy, creative campaign development, culture, partnerships and storytelling. You’ll help shape how Courtyard shows up in the world, building campaigns, moments and experiences that grow awareness and drive conversation to strengthen our position as the leader in Entertainment Shopping. This is a highly cross-functional role that requires both strategic thinking and hands-on execution. If you’re excited about building an iconic consumer brand from the ground up, we’d love to meet you. What You’ll Do - Brand strategy & positioning: - Help define and evolve Courtyard’s brand strategy, positioning, messaging and narrative. - Develop frameworks that strengthen brand consistency across every customer touchpoint. - Translate business objectives into brand initiatives that drive awareness, consideration and affinity. - Help establish Courtyard as the category-defining leader in Entertainment Shopping. - Campaign Development: - Lead integrated brand campaigns from concept through execution. - Build tentpole marketing moments around major launches, partnerships, cultural events and new categories. - Develop campaign briefs and partner closely with Creative, Product Marketing, Social, CRM, Community and Partnerships. - Ensure campaigns are measurable and connected to business outcomes. - Culture & Storytelling: - Identify cultural moments, trends and opportunities that can help Courtyard break through. - Develop programs that create conversation and increase earned attention. - Help shape how Courtyard participates in sports, entertainment, gaming, collectibles and broader consumer culture. - Partnerships & Experiences: - Help bring brand campaigns to life through creators, events, media, and community programs. - Evaluate opportunities through both brand impact and business value. - Brand Operations: - Build annual and quarterly brand marketing roadmaps. - Manage agency relationships, freelancers and production partners when needed. - Establish a reporting framework to measure campaign success. - Drive alignment across multiple internal stakeholders and workstreams. Qualifications - 6-10+ years of experience in brand marketing, product marketing, or integrated marketing. - Experience building campaigns for consumer-facing brands. - Strong strategic thinking paired with exceptional execution skills. - Comfortable moving between high-level planning and day-to-day operational work. - Excellent project management and cross-functional leadership abilities. - Strong creative instinct and storytelling skills. - Experience working with creators, partnerships, and PR. - Experience in high-growth consumer businesses, sports, entertainment, or gaming is highly preferred. Benefits - A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation. - Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value. - Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage. - Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development. - Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment. - 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future. - $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand. - Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being.

Role Description Courtyard is hiring a Staff Data Scientist to own pricing across our portfolio collectibles. Pricing is load-bearing at our business — it touches revenue and operational decisions daily, with direct financial consequences. This role builds and improves our pricing methodology across a large, heterogeneous catalog of often-thinly-traded assets. You'll partner closely with engineering on our pricing pipeline, with operations on real-world feedback loops, and with the rest of the data team on measurement and evaluation. - Own and evolve pricing models across asset categories, including designing approaches for new and sparsely-traded asset types - Build data quality and anomaly detection systems for adversarial and corrupted external data inputs - Ship production code into our pricing pipeline and services in partnership with engineering - Partner with operations, finance, and product on pricing-related decisions across the company Qualifications - Strong foundations in applied statistics, economics, or signal processing — robust estimation, state-space models, sparse/hierarchical data, anomaly detection, and uncertainty quantification - Backgrounds of interest: quantitative trading, fraud/anomaly detection, computational neuroscience or physics — in addition to traditional pricing or marketplace DS - Track record owning a production scoring or pricing system end-to-end - Production-grade Python and SQL; comfort working inside a real codebase and shipping models into continuously-running services - Experience with sparse, irregular, heterogeneous, or adversarial data - Pragmatism about modeling — right tool for the data you actually have - 5+ years of industry experience or Ph.D. - Bonus: experience sourcing heterogeneous external data via API or scraping Benefits - A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation - Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value - Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage - Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development - Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment - 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future - $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand - Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being

Role Description We are actively recruiting a Staff Product Engineer to help revolutionize the way people discover the things they love to collect. At Courtyard.io, you’ll play a critical role in building the product hundreds of thousands of users use to buy, sell, and trade. - Join a lean and experienced remote-first team of engineers that prioritizes technical ingenuity, authentic communication, and a get-it-done attitude. - Own roadmap work from idea to launch, working alongside product, design, leadership, and data to shape what we build. - Write the Go services and Postgres schemas, build the Next.js or React Native UI, and track user interactions post-launch. - Stack: Go, Postgres, Terraform on the backend; Next.js and React Native on the frontend. - At Staff level, shape the technical strategy, contribute to engineering standards, and help move hard problems forward when they stall. Qualifications - 6+ years of experience in designing and building large and complex (yet maintainable) systems. - Deep understanding of systems architecture, APIs, and infrastructure. - Experience working with relational databases (Postgres preferred) and designing efficient queries. - Proficiency with writing useful tests and utilizing monitoring tools. - Strong testing and CI/CD practices. - Ownership of work with a leadership mindset, demonstrating initiative and accountability. - Proven ability to work independently on a remote-first team, with experience in asynchronous communication. - Top-notch communication skills are essential. Requirements - Passionate about building high-performance, scalable backend systems. - Enjoy working with product and design teams to build excellent user experiences. Nice to Have - Experience with payments, marketplaces, real-time systems (websockets, pubsub), or anything that touches money movement. - React Native at scale, or Go services behind a high-traffic consumer app. Benefits - A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation. - Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value. - Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage. - Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development. - Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment. - 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future. - $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand. - Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being.

Role Description Courtyard is seeking a Community Marketing Manager to help build, engage and scale a passionate user community around our platform. This role is focused on execution, bringing our community strategy to life through tailored programs, content and direct engagement with our users. You will play a key role in fostering relationships with our most engaged users, supporting creator and ambassador initiatives, and helping turn Courtyard into a daily habit and cultural destination for collectors and enthusiasts. What You’ll Do - Execute community programs - Support and execute community initiatives across Discord, X, Instagram, Reddit and other social platforms and in-product experiences that drive engagement, retention and participation. - Engage directly with users - Actively manage and participate in community conversations, responding directly to users, sparking discussions and building authentic relationships with our audience. - Support creator & ambassador programs - Help identify, onboard and manage influencers, creators and ambassadors who align with Courtyard’s brand and audience. - Collaborate on content - Work closely with Creative and Social teams to develop and distribute content that resonates with the community and encourages interaction. - Activate around key moments - Help execute community activations tied to live events and cultural moments. - Gather insights & feedback - Serve as the voice of the community internally, surfacing user feedback, trends and sentiment to inform product, marketing and operations. - Track performance - Monitor engagement metrics (growth, activity, sentiment, and retention) and help report community impact. - Support moderation & guidelines - Help maintain a positive, inclusive and on-brand community environment by enforcing guidelines and best practices. Qualifications - 6+ years experience in community, social or digital marketing with focus on consumer apps, gaming or marketplaces with a strong creator ecosystem. - Strong understanding of online communities (Discord, Twitter/X, Instagram, Reddit). - Comfortable being hands on and operational, as this role requires daily interaction with users. - Strong communication skills with a natural ability to build relationships and engage audiences. - Experience supporting creator, influencer or ambassador programs. - Highly analytical, using data to guide community and social decision making. - Expertise in leveraging analytical dashboards and tools to measure program impact. - Passion for collectibles, gaming, or culture is a strong plus. Benefits - A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation. - Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value. - Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage. - Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development. - Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment. - 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future. - $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand. - Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being.

Role Description We are actively recruiting a full stack staff software engineer to help the fastest growing e-commerce startup scale and bring operations to the next level. You will be reporting directly to our Head of Engineering and work very closely with our CTO. Your mission will include: - Understanding all aspects of our logistics, supply chain, and operations. - Building, improving, and maintaining the tools that our team uses daily to perform critical duties at the highest standards. - Helping us scale to $500M in volume in under a year and preparing to scale the next 100x. Qualifications - 8+ years of experience inventing and building all aspects of complex software systems, preferably with appreciable experience in the manufacturing/logistics/fulfillment industries. - You have high agency and don't let yourself be stuck on problems; you find a way to solve them so the business does not stop running. - You are a "professional hacker" who can operate without much guidance and can exercise good judgment on improving existing software vs building something new. - You enjoy problem solving and see building software as one efficient way to do so. - You are passionate about building and maintaining software for teams within the company. - You understand that sometimes, the rocket must be launched and completed in flight, and you feel comfortable doing so. Requirements - Experience in the manufacturing/logistics/fulfillment industries. - Ability to solve problems independently. - Good judgment on software improvement vs new development. - Passion for enhancing coworkers' quality of life and performance through software. - Comfort with launching tools before handing them off to users. Benefits - A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation. - Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value. - Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage. - Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development. - Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment. - 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future. - $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand. - Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being.

Role Description We are seeking to bring on a Senior Graphic Designer to elevate the design efforts that grow Courtyard.io globally. You’ll partner with a multidisciplinary team of video editors, live-ops managers, and growth experts to concept, design, optimize, and scale creatives across a variety of product, UA, and social channels. You’ll leverage everything from traditional graphics editing software to AI tools to produce and enhance creatives that represent Courtyard at the highest level. From pack art to static ads, key art, and e-mail headers, you’ll design content that drives engagement and growth. The ideal candidate is a conceptual thinker, highly skilled in design execution, and thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. They pair sharp creative instincts with a meticulous mindset and understand how to budget their time to consistently deliver high-performing creatives on schedule. They have the ability to turn insights into concepts and concepts into deliverables that scale without compromising taste. This role reports to the Head of Creative Services and will design and deliver graphic assets for both product and marketing, so this designer must be able to shift between multiple workstreams. Qualifications - 6+ years of experience as an advanced graphic designer, ideally within mobile gaming, PC gaming, or a direct-to-consumer field - Advanced experience with professional raster-based (Photoshop) and vector-based (Illustrator) design software - Strong understanding of both brand and performance marketing, and how graphic design impacts conversion rates and retention - Strong familiarity with leveraging AI tools in both ideation and execution - Proven experience collaborating with product and marketing teams to align creatives with established visual identity and strategic marketing campaigns - Experience designing logos and branded merchandise Requirements - Ideate and execute graphic design creatives for product, paid user acquisition, brand marketing, web, e-mail, and social media to drive conversion, retention, and engagement - Partner closely with internal stakeholders to understand project vision and translate it into compelling art that represents the product at a high standard - Support marketing and product initiatives with highly-polished concepts for use in motion design (e.g. end slates, cinemagraphs, etc.) - Contribute to evolving Courtyard’s brand identity across product and marketing channels - Stay up-to-date with design trends, emerging technologies, competitor output, and best practices in graphic design Benefits - A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation - Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value - Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage - Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development - Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment - 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future - $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to support trying out our products firsthand - Access to employee wellness programs designed to support your overall well-being

Role Description We are looking for a highly analytical and proactive Finance & Strategy Manager to join our growing team at Courtyard.io! Reporting to the Head of Finance, this role sits at the intersection of finance, strategy, and operations - ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and is passionate about using metrics-driven insights to power decision-making. You will be responsible for owning core financial models, partnering with cross-functional teams, and quarterbacking strategic initiatives across the business. What You’ll Do: - Own and evolve core financial models and forecasting processes, including functional ownership of key profitability drivers. - Partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Engineering, and Ops to evaluate opportunities and develop robust financial analyses. - Turn ambiguous business questions into structured, actionable insights — helping stakeholders understand not just what happened, but why. - Drive performance analysis across business segments, surfacing growth opportunities, risks, and areas requiring attention. - Build business cases for new initiatives, from market sizing through expected ROI, and track performance post-launch. - Lead fast-moving strategic initiatives such as new category launches and go-to-market campaigns - ensuring financial clarity and measurable impact at every step. Qualifications - 6+ years of experience in investment banking, private equity, consulting, or strategic finance/business operations within a high-growth tech company. - Exceptional command of financial modeling and quantitative analysis, with a track record of tackling ambiguous problems and delivering clear, actionable insights. - Strong analytical toolset - SQL or data analysis experience preferred, or a clear desire to learn. - Fluency with AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.) for accelerating analysis and research, or a clear excitement about building that muscle. - Excellent communication and influence skills; you can align cross-functional partners and present confidently to leadership. - High attention to detail, bias for action, and a self-starter mentality — you don't wait to be told what to do. Benefits - A dynamic and engaging environment focused on fostering real growth and innovation. - Opportunities to create amazing products that our customers truly love and value. - Comprehensive health insurance packages with dependent coverage. - Competitive salary with ample opportunities for career advancement and development. - Enjoy the flexibility of a fully remote work environment. - 401(k) plan with a 4% employer match to help you plan for the future. - $100 monthly dogfooding stipend to explore and enjoy Courtyard’s product firsthand.