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Engineering Manager, Seller Scaling

Engineering Manager, Seller Scaling

WhatnotSeattle, WA, US
6 hours ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Job Description

Job Description

🚀 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

The Seller Scaling team at Whatnot is responsible for building tools and experiences that empower our top GMV-generating sellers to grow and scale their businesses. In this role, you’ll help shape strategy, drive execution, and partner closely with product and design to solve complex, high-leverage problems. We're looking for a leader with strong product instincts, who can clearly articulate what needs to be built — and isn’t afraid to step into a PM mindset when needed. This will be a highly technical role, requiring strong engineering judgment to guide the team and ensure they have the skills and direction needed to shape and deliver the right solutions.

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 should also :

Have experience leading a team of engineers to deliver significant business impact while 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.

Know how to 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.

Be comfortable with technical debt and how to leverage it.

Understand how to instrument product metrics, recognizing the value and limits of data.

Effectively manage stakeholders, competing priorities and deal with ambiguity.

Have substantial hands-on experience of doing the job you’ll be managing.

🎁 Benefits

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.

💛 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.

Compensation Range : $230K - $260K

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