Compensation Overview

 Whatnot

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re building the future of ecommerce, bringing together community, shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values, and as a remote co-located team, we operate out of hubs within the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany today.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions from fashion, beauty, electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants. Whatnot has something for everyone.

And, we’re growing. Whatnot has been one of the fastest growing marketplaces and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

💻 Role

The Seller Growth Engineering team is responsible for growing sellers on Whatnot — enabling them to turn their hobbies into businesses. As the Engineering Manager of the Seller Growth team, you’ll focus on defining different seller cuts and measuring the seller lifecycle, making sellers successful throughout their lifecycle, seller onboarding, seller marketing and growth capabilities and tooling, and resurrecting churned sellers.

In addition, you’ll:

• hire and develop engineers across all our consumer applications and backend systems.
• collaborate with your product and design counterparts to influence the strategic direction of the team, advocating for technical solutions that help us grow Whatnot as a whole.
• plan and manage projects, coordinating and aligning your team‘s goals against others across the business.

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

In addition to embodying our cultural principles, great candidates will also:

• have experience leading a team of engineers, guiding them through both their career development, and executing in a high growth environment.
• have low ego, an appetite to build, and employ good judgment in making hard trade-offs with limited resources.
• effectively recruit, mentor, retain, and measure high performing teams.
• operate as a technical leader with hands-on experience in large distributed systems and complex user interfaces across web and mobile.
• have 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.
• are comfortable with technical debt and how to leverage it.
• understand how to instrument product metrics, recognizing the value and limits of data.
• can effectively manage stakeholders, competing priorities and deal with ambiguity
• have substantial hands-on experience of doing the job you’ll be managing.
• a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent work experience.

💰Compensation

$185,000 - $245,000/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
• $1,000 home office setup allowance
• $150 monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
• $450 monthly allowance on food
• $500 monthly allowance for wellness
• $5,000 annual allowance towards Childcare
• $20,000 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
• 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.