Senior Compensation Analyst

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

We are looking for a Senior Compensation Analyst to join our growing Total Rewards team. In this role, you’ll play a critical part in supporting and evolving our global compensation programs through robust analysis, process improvements, and strategic collaboration. You will serve as a trusted compensation subject matter expert to cross-functional stakeholders and employees as we continue to scale.

Conduct detailed compensation analysis and modeling to support compensation program design, recommendations, and key decision-making.

Lead market benchmarking efforts to evaluate internal equity and external competitiveness, refining job architecture and pay ranges to support business growth.

Manage the execution of our global compensation planning cycles, with a focus on data integrity, reporting, and process optimization.

Drive clarity, transparency, and understanding of compensation at Whatnot.

Partner with the Recruiting team to optimize offer processes, and provide market intelligence and insights.

Develop and maintain compensation tools, dashboards, and templates to drive informed decision-making.

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

👋 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.

As our next Senior Compensation Analyst, you should have 3+ years of compensation experience at a fast-paced company, plus :

Proven experience developing and maintaining compensation bands (including salary and equity), frameworks, and job architectures at scale.

Strong understanding of global compensation practices, with experience supporting international markets.

Comfortable navigating ambiguity and shifting priorities in a fast-paced, high-growth environment

Highly collaborative, with a track record of building strong cross-functional partnerships - particularly with Recruiting, Finance, and People teams.

Skilled in leveraging compensation data platforms (e.g., Radford, Pave) and analytics tools to generate insights and support decision-making.

Advanced proficiency in Google Sheets or Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, and modeling.

A proactive, learning-oriented mindset with a passion for building effective, scalable compensation programs.

🎁 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 : $135K - $150K