Engineering Manager, Seller Scaling

3 Months ago • All levels • Software Development & Engineering • $215,000 PA - $245,000 PA

Job Summary

Job Description

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. The role requires a leader with strong product instincts and strong engineering judgment to guide the team and ensure they have the skills and direction needed to shape and deliver the right solutions. This position requires being within commuting distance of hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, or New York City.
Must have:
  • Lead engineers to deliver significant business impact and career development.
  • Have low ego, an appetite to build, and employ good judgment.
  • Recruit, mentor, retain, and measure high performing teams.
  • Operate as a technical leader with hands-on experience.
  • Great taste in building user experiences and the systems behind them.
  • Be comfortable with technical debt and how to leverage it.
  • Understand how to instrument product metrics and the 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.
Perks:
  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays.
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision.
  • Work From Home Support: Home office setup allowance and Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet.
  • Care benefits: Monthly allowance for wellness and Annual allowance towards Childcare and Lifetime benefit for family planning.
  • Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US and Pension plans internationally.
  • Monthly allowance to dogfood the app.
  • Parental Leave: 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work.

Job Details

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot! 

Whatnot is the largest livestream 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, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare 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.

💰Compensation

For Full-Time (Salary) US-based applicants: $215,000/year to $245,000/year + benefits + equity.

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

🎁 Benefits 

  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
  • 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
  • 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.

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