Senior Manager, Trust & Risk Operations

Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. 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

The Senior Manager, Trust & Safety Operations (International) plays a key role in leading and scaling our international T&S operations, ensuring our agent teams are deployed in ways that most effectively build trust and deliver great user experiences.

This role oversees a team of Team Leads and Trust & Safety specialists, driving operational excellence and ensuring a best-in-class experience for our users. This role is accountable for ensuring agent time, expertise, and judgment are applied where they create the greatest impact for our users.

You’ll partner cross-functionally to improve processes and tooling, with a focus on enabling agents to build trust efficiently and consistently at scale, step into complex investigations, and make decisions to deliver a best-in-class experience. This is a critical, high-impact hire as we scale globally.

• Direct and mentor a team of Team Leads, fostering a collaborative environment to drive a world-class user experience.

• Deep-dive into complicated cases and situations to provide guidance to T&S team members.

• Lead team performance to drive results in productivity, quality, and user experience.

• Partner with Policy, Strategy and Operations, and Training to reinforce compliance with new launches, processes, and policies.

• Maintain functional knowledge of, and act as a subject matter expert of policies, processes, and projects related to day-to-day operations.

• Other ad-hoc projects as the business requires.

People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.

We are looking for:

• Minimum of 8 years of overall experience, including 3+ years leading managers.

• Deep operational experience running Trust & Safety or high-volume content/risk operations at scale, ideally across EMEA/international markets.

• Proven track record of proactively driving productivity improvements through process design, playbooks, tooling, or automation.

• Hands-on experience with complex investigations (e.g., fraud, IP/counterfeit, content) and making timely operational tradeoffs.

• Strong analytical skills, with experience leveraging SQL and dashboards to analyze large datasets and rapidly translate insights into action.

• Proven success managing and optimizing case management tools such as Zendesk.

• Strong business acumen and ability to communicate the impact of key decisions, including when acting with imperfect information.

• Experience working on a marketplace or a two-sided platform

• Knowledge of legal and compliance requirements related to content moderation, data privacy, and user safety

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

• 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

• 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.

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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.