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 thoughtful, experienced Product Managers to help shape the strategy, vision, and execution of key initiatives across our marketplace ranging from improving selling formats and inventory management to building ads & promotion tools and scaling our core platform.

We hire PMs who enjoy working across different parts of the business, collaborating closely with engineers, designers, and operators to solve meaningful problems for our users and community.

We’re looking for someone who brings strong product intuition, a love for building, and a drive to create simple, impactful experiences that make Whatnot better every day. You will:

• Drive the product roadmap, product strategy and execution for a given problem space, balancing short and long-term goals.

• Partner cross-functionally with engineering, design, data science, and operations to bring new features and systems to life.

• Translate complex problems into clear requirements and simple, high-quality user experiences.

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

• Communicate progress, insights, and priorities across teams and stakeholders.

• Help the team stay focused and move efficiently, removing blockers and ensuring alignment.

• Contribute to the growth and evolution of Whatnot’s product culture and processes.
  

This role reports to a Product Director and requires being within commuting distance of one of our office hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York.

• 8+ years of product management experience, ideally in fast-moving consumer or marketplace environments.

• A track record of shipping complex, technical systems or large-scale consumer products.

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

• Strong analytical skills — comfortable working with data, hypotheses, and experimentation.

• A balance of strategic thinking and hands-on execution — able to zoom in and out as needed.

• Experience partnering with design and data science; proficiency with SQL is a plus.
  

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.