Business Operations Senior Associate

Posted 9 Days Ago
San Francisco, CA
In-Office
135K-150K Annually
Mid level
eCommerce • Mobile
Buy, Sell & Go Live
The Role
The Business Operations Senior Associate will lead key initiatives to drive growth, collaborate with leadership, and solve complex, unstructured problems.
Summary Generated by Built In
🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

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.

💻 The Role

The Business Operations Sr Associate plays a significant role in building the functions to unlock growth and help the Company scale. Working directly with Whatnot's leadership team, this role will work cross-functionally to lead large, critical initiatives and solve complicated, unstructured problems.

This role is a terrific introduction to Whatnot, and allows impactful individuals to learn about the business while contributing to a variety of high-impact, critical initiatives.

  • Act as a strategic partner to leadership, driving high-impact business initiatives and collaborating closely with leadership to inform decision-making

  • Lead and execute key cross-functional initiatives, to scale functions and build solutions

  • Proactively identify inhibitors to growth

  • Define and measure critical important metrics

👋 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.

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, or related field

  • 3-5+ years experience in consulting, investment banking/private equity, or a fast-growing startup

  • Eager for new opportunities and challenges

  • Able to move remarkably fast with little structure, guidance

  • Curious to learn about different parts of the business and how to pull certain levers to grow faster

  • Ability to operate independently and go deep on projects while also building key cross collaborative relationships across the company

  • Demonstrated ability to work and influence cross-functionally. You are proactive, great at communicating with different audiences and can bring stakeholders on-board. You seek out and have a track record for driving change and impact in a fluid, unstructured working environment

  • Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous problems using data and process improvement

🙏 Nice to Have
  • Experience working on a marketplace or a two-sided platform.

  • Experience or passion for buying and selling in online marketplaces communities

  • SQL & Dashboard experience

💛 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.

Top Skills

SQL

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The Company
HQ: Culver City, California
750 Employees
Year Founded: 2019

What We Do

We bring people together around the things they love and turn their passions into their livelihood.

Why Work With Us

Passion is the centerpiece of our culture.
We’ve got passionate buyers, sellers, and employees. We want you to bring your passions to Whatnot.

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Whatnot Offices

Remote Workspace

Employees work remotely.

Our “office optional” policy lets you work where you’re most productive. With options of working from home, in person, or a mix of both. We have office hubs within the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany today.

Typical time on-site: None
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