About the company
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, and CapitalG. Weāre building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote-first team, we operate out of hubs within the US, Canada, UK, and Germany today. Weāre innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports, fashion, video games, and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.
Job Summary
Role
šThe Seller Scaling team at Whatnot is responsible for building tools and experiences that empower our top GMV-generating sellers to grow and scale their businesses. In this role, youāll help shape strategy, drive execution, and partner closely with product and design to solve complex, high-leverage problems. We're looking for a leader with strong product instincts, who can clearly articulate what needs to be built ā and isnāt afraid to step into a PM mindset when needed. This will be a highly technical role, requiring strong engineering judgment to guide the team and ensure they have the skills and direction needed to shape and deliver the right solutions. šTeam members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City hubs.
You
In addition to embodying our cultural principles, great candidates should also: šHave experience leading a team of engineers to deliver significant business impact while guiding them through both their career development and executing in a high-growth environment. šHave low ego, an appetite to build, and employ good judgment in making hard trade-offs with limited resources. šKnow how to effectively recruit, mentor, retain, and measure high performing teams. šOperate as a technical leader with hands-on experience in large distributed systems and complex user interfaces across web and mobile. šHave great taste in building user experiences and the systems behind them, understand how form follows function, and effectively direct teams to build in this manner.
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