Excel & Product Configuration Specialist

Pulse Trading Cards creates collectible trading card products. We’re looking for someone exceptional with Excel who enjoys organizing complex data, automating calculations, and making sure every quantity reconciles.

You’ll turn our product plans, player lists, and autograph inventory into detailed set configurations and production-ready pack-out plans. Your work will determine how available cards and autographs are allocated across sets, serial-numbered versions, packs, boxes, and cases.

This is a hands-on individual contributor role, not a senior management position. Trading-card experience is not required. Advanced Excel and workbook automation skills are. We’ll teach you the product terminology and provide the creative direction and product requirements.

• Build and maintain Excel workbooks that connect player lists, available autograph inventory, and product configuration requirements.
• Create reusable templates that reduce manual entry and update reliably when inputs change.
• Use formulas, Power Query, and other appropriate Excel automation tools to clean, combine, validate, and organize data.
• Make workbooks easy for teammates to use, with clear inputs, outputs, instructions, and error checks.
  Turn product requirements into detailed set builds
• Work from an approved product outline to calculate player counts, card quantities, and serial-numbering options.
• Assign players and available autographs to sets and variations within the product’s requirements and inventory limits.
• Model different configurations to show how changes affect inventory usage, production quantities, and pack-out feasibility.
• Flag shortages, unused inventory, duplicate allocations, and configurations that do not reconcile.
• Update builds as inventory availability or product requirements change.
  Plan pack-outs and collation
• Build allocation plans showing how cards and autographs should be distributed into packs, boxes, and cases.
• Translate product guarantees into clear quantity calculations and distribution rules.
• Account for different card types, rarity levels, player variety, and repeat limits where specified.
• Verify that the full production run can be packed as planned using the available inventory.
• Produce clear worksheets and instructions that production partners can follow.
  Keep the numbers accurate
• Reconcile inventory allocated, inventory remaining, total cards produced, and total packs, boxes, and cases.
• Build checks that catch errors before files reach production.
• Maintain organized versions and document changes to configurations.
• Work with our product and operations teams to resolve discrepancies and keep builds moving.

• Excellent Excel skills and experience building workbooks that other people rely on.
• Strong command of advanced formulas, lookups, SUMIFS/COUNTIFS, structured tables, data validation, and error checks.
• Experience automating repeatable work in Excel using tools such as Power Query, dynamic arrays, VBA, or Office Scripts. You don’t need every tool, but you should know how to choose and use an effective approach.
• Strong numerical reasoning and the ability to work through allocation problems with multiple constraints.
• Exceptional attention to detail and a habit of checking that totals reconcile.
• The ability to turn an operational requirement into a clear, reliable spreadsheet process.
• Clear communication and comfort asking questions when requirements are incomplete.

Relevant experience could come from inventory planning, manufacturing, logistics, operations, data analysis, or other spreadsheet-intensive work. We’re open to early-career candidates who can demonstrate outstanding Excel skills.

No prior trading-card knowledge or people-management experience is required.