Product Manager

Whatnot is the largest live 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, Germany, Ireland, and Poland, we’re building the future of online marketplaces –together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to 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.

Whatnot is looking for an experienced Product Manager to lead the strategy, vision, and execution across critical areas for the company. We have roles that tackle a unique set of problems ranging from selling formats, inventory, ads & promotion tools, and platform. Product Managers are assigned to one of the product areas based on their skillset and team needs. We hire product managers who are comfortable flexing into different areas of the business, tackling multiple areas of opportunity at a given point in time.
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 with a focus on user adoption. 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. You will:

• 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, and broader teams 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.

• Establish product metrics and experimentation frameworks to validate performance and user impact

• 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.

• 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.

• Uplevel the Whatnot Product Management function as a whole.
  

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

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

As our next Product Manager, you should have 8+ 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.

• Proven ability to ship complex, technical systems at scale

• Deep empathy for users and a passion for delivering outstanding user experiences and driving adoption of products.

• Experienced in design, and hypothesis driven product development.

• Experience partnering with data science and working within data sets and SQL.
  

For US-based applicants: $240,000/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.

• Generous Holiday and Time off Policy

• 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

  • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).

• 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.

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.