Director – Technical Recruiting

🚀 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 

• Act as the subject matter authority on all things EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) recruiting. You understand what drives top technical talent—from backend engineers to product managers and designers—and can coach hiring teams and recruiters on how to attract and close them effectively.
• Foster a high-performance culture within the recruiting team, focusing on mentorship, career development, and accountability. 
• Drive structure and consistency across the hiring process. From job descriptions to interview rubrics and hiring plans, you'll help codify and scale best practices across the EPD org in partnership with the VP of Talent and technical leadership.
• Identify exceptional, mission-aligned candidates. This is a player-coach role—you'll personally lead hiring for a few high-priority roles to stay close to the work and set the standard for excellence.
• Empower your team to think beyond the obvious. While LinkedIn and referrals are great, you’ll encourage creative sourcing tactics, tapping into new communities, networks, and tools to uncover the best technical talent out there.
• Set a high bar for execution. Your team members will often be juggling 8–10+ open roles across functions, and you’ll be the calm in the chaos—coaching them through prioritization and delivering speed without sacrificing quality.
• You’ll help your team push past traditional hiring funnels, identifying creative strategies to bring underrepresented perspectives into the org—and building inclusive processes that set every candidate up for success.
• Champion candidate experience and hiring efficiency. You’ll work to smooth out friction points in the interview loop, dig into funnel data, and propose scalable solutions to uplevel our process over time.
• Cultivate meaningful partnerships. You'll build strong relationships with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders, acting as a strategic advisor to help them hit their hiring goals thoughtfully and inclusively.

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

👋 You 

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, but here are a few criteria we're looking for in this role:

• You have deep experience hiring across Engineering, Product, and/or Design. Whether it’s closing senior engineers, building PM pipelines, or navigating niche design skill sets—you’ve been in the weeds and can help your team win in a competitive market.
• You’ve built and led high-performing recruiting teams. You bring significant  experience managing both individual contributors and managers, and are known for leading with empathy, giving honest feedback, and developing team members into trusted partners.
• You’re energized by systems and scale. You’ve helped build or evolve recruiting programs and processes—from scorecards to sourcing strategies—and you’re eager to continue leveling up how we hire technical talent at Whatnot.
• You’re passionate about building diverse, inclusive teams. You care deeply about equity in hiring and have experience implementing recruiting practices that create access and representation.
• You take ownership and move fast. Whatnot is growing quickly, and hiring is a key growth lever. You’re not afraid to dive in, get scrappy, and find ways to get to great outcomes—even when the path isn't fully clear.
• You know how to craft standout candidate experiences. You treat every interaction as an opportunity to showcase Whatnot's culture, values, and mission—because you know how much those details matter to technical talent.
• You’re data-literate. You track metrics like time to fill, passthrough rates, and pipeline health—and you use that data to guide your team’s strategy and influence stakeholders.

💰Compensation

$240,000/year - $280,000/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.