Authentication, grading, and marketplace platform for collectibles across coins, cards, and memorabilia
Collectors operates a multi-brand authentication and grading business serving the collectibles market through PSA (trading cards), PCGS (coins), SGC (cards), and integrated marketplace and financial services. The tech stack spans legacy ERP (Dynamics NAV, NetSuite) alongside modern cloud infrastructure (AWS, microservices in Java/Spring/Quarkus, DynamoDB, OpenSearch), indicating a mid-stage platform modernization. Hiring acceleration is operations-heavy (40 ops roles), with ongoing projects in logistics, event expansion, and subsidiary process standardization—consistent with a company managing physical authentication and vault operations at scale.
Notable leadership hires: Customer Experience Lead, Continuous Improvement Lead, Customer Care Training Lead, Customer Care Lead, Head of Communications
Collectors is a privately held company founded in 1986, headquartered in Santa Ana, California, with 1,001–5,000 employees. The business authenticates, grades, vaults, and facilitates sales of collectibles including coins, trading cards, video games, autographs, comics, and memorabilia across multiple subsidiary brands. Core services include physical authentication and grading (PSA, PCGS, SGC), secure vault storage (PSA Vault), marketplace integration (eBay connectivity), and financial products tied to collectible holdings (Collectors Financial Solutions). The platform also operates Card Ladder, a data and analytics product for market insights. Operations span the United States, Japan, Germany, and Mexico, with ongoing expansion into European markets.
Java, Spring Boot, Quarkus, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, DynamoDB, AWS (Lambda, RDS, MSK, SNS, SQS), OpenSearch, GraphQL, REST, and legacy ERP (Dynamics NAV, NetSuite). Adopting Workday and Adaptive Insights for finance/HR.
Santa Ana, California. The company also hires and operates in Japan, Germany, and Mexico, with active geographic expansion into Europe.
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