Product Manager

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot! 

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news and engineering blogs and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business, and bring people together through commerce.

💻  Role

You will drive cross-functional collaboration across multiple teams including product, engineering, operations, policy, data science, and legal. We are looking for someone with a strong bias towards action, is excited to work in an ambiguous problem space, and wants to build 0 → 1 solutions and systems from scratch. As a product team, we do what’s best for our customers and the business. We value low-ego product managers who are excited about working in an ever-changing space.

• Drive the product roadmap, product strategy and execution for these areas, balancing short and long-term goals. 
• Roll up your sleeves to define product requirements & work with engineering, data science, operations, policy and broader team to bring our roadmap to market at lightning speed.
• Take on a wide scope of work across varying degrees of complexity, every Product Manager works directly on the product regardless of level or title.
• Clearly communicate roadmap, progress, and insights to key teams and stakeholders.
• Do whatever it takes to ensure the cross functional team is operating effectively, unblock them and make sure they can move at a rapid pace.
• Analyze competitors and industry trends to advance our products and drive innovation.
• Take ownership of any major blocker to the company’s success.
• Be ready to pivot based on new insights. We value flexibility and will stop or adjust projects when necessary. 
• Drive strategic initiatives across the company as needed.
• Uplevel the Whatnot Product Management function as a whole.

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Fransisco, CA, Los Angeles, CA or New York, NY hubs.

👋 You 

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.

As our next Product Manager, you should have 6+ years of product management experience, plus: 

• Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, identify trade-offs, and make decisions with limited information in high-pressure situations.
• Experience partnering with data science and working within data sets and SQL. 
• Proven ability to develop sound research methodologies and collect, synthesize, analyze, and interpret data.
• Experienced in design, and hypothesis driven product development.
• Deep empathy for users and a passion for delivering outstanding user experiences.

💰Compensation

For US-based applicants: $205,000/year to $275,000/year + benefits + equity.

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

🎁 Benefits 

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
• Work From Home Support
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
  • Monthly allowance for wellness
  • Annual allowance towards Childcare
  • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
• Parental Leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛 EOE 

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, parental status, disability status, or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage, support, and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.