Product Designer

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.

Role

We're looking for a strong Product Designer to join our growing team, a designer who's passionate about solving complex problems, designing scalable systems, and building thoughtful experiences that balance user needs with business priorities. You'll lead the design of end-to-end workflows across high-impact surfaces, whether focused on user-facing features, internal tools, or core platform systems.

In this role, you'll be instrumental in shaping the future of our product by creating experiences that are clear, efficient, and user-centric, all while collaborating deeply with designers, product managers, engineers, data scientists, operations, and other cross-functional partners.This could include anything from designing onboarding experiences or discovery flows to crafting educational content, user review systems, or real-time interactions during live events.

• Design intuitive, end-to-end product experiences across both user-facing and internal tools.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex problems and workflows into intuitive product experiences.
• Create wireframes, prototypes, and final visuals that bring clarity to ambiguous problems.
• Contribute to the broader design system while advocating for accessibility and inclusive user experiences.
• Use data, research, and feedback to iterate on existing features and identify areas for improvement.
• Help foster a strong design culture by sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, and improving team processes.

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

You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We've found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.

As our next Product Designer, you should have 4+ years of experience in product design, plus :

Benefits

Home office setup allowance

Monthly allowance for wellness

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!).

16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work

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.