🚀 Whatnot
Whatnot (YC W20) is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Y Combinator. We’re one of YC’s top companies and one of the fastest growing marketplaces ever. We’re laser focused on creating an exceptional software company, team, and place to work.
Our mission: enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce. We’re building the future of ecommerce; an interactive community where creators can make a living off their passion.
We’re hiring forward thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. We recruit thoughtfully, can move fast, and are scaling fully remotely.
📈 Opportunity Size
The ecommerce experience has been static for 20+ years and is perhaps the largest opportunity in the startup space today. Livestream shopping is a $170B GMV market in China and has grown 100% YoY. Retail is a $5T market opportunity!
💻 Role
Drive the product roadmap, product strategy and roadmap execution
Define product requirements & work with engineering, design and broader team to bring our roadmap to market at lightning speed
Clearly communicate roadmap, progress, and insights to key teams and stakeholders
Do whatever it takes to ensure the engineering team is operating effectively, unblock them and make sure they can move at a rapid pace
Take ownership of any major blocker to the company’s success
Drive strategic initiatives across the company as needed
👋 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.
You have 5+ years work and 3+ years product management
Startup experience
Comfort working exceptionally fast in an ambiguous work environment
Strong product intuition and design sense
Proven track record of using data, user feedback and intuition to drive sound product decisions
Able to ruthlessly prioritize the most impactful work
You know that product decisions don't end and begin with data and a/b tests
🙏 Nice to Have
You previously founded a startup
Have experience working on a marketplace or two-sided platform
🎁 Benefits
Competitive base salary and stock options benchmarked to 90th percentile
Unlimited Vacation Policy and No Meeting Holidays
Amazing Health Insurance options including a no premium plan, Dental and Vision Plans with less $1 monthly employee contribution, and no cost Life Insurance
13 Week Parental Leave
$200 to spend within Whatnot App
$3500 expense to buy your computer and at home work station
$100 weekly expense for Lunch
$75 monthly expense for Internet
$75 monthly expense for Cell Phone plan
Whatnot
