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Base pay range
$240,000.00/yr - $280,000.00/yr
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Role
- Act as the subject matter authority on all things EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) recruiting. You understand what drives top technical talentfrom backend engineers to product managers and designersand can coach hiring teams and recruiters on how to attract and close them effectively.
- Foster a high-performance culture within the recruiting team, focusing on mentorship, career development, and accountability.
- Drive structure and consistency across the hiring process. From job descriptions to interview rubrics and hiring plans, you'll help codify and scale best practices across the EPD org in partnership with the VP of Talent and technical leadership.
- Identify exceptional, mission-aligned candidates. This is a player-coach roleyou'll personally lead hiring for a few high-priority roles to stay close to the work and set the standard for excellence.
- Empower your team to think beyond the obvious. While LinkedIn and referrals are great, youll encourage creative sourcing tactics, tapping into new communities, networks, and tools to uncover the best technical talent out there.
- Set a high bar for execution. Your team members will often be juggling 810+ open roles across functions, and youll be the calm in the chaoscoaching them through prioritization and delivering speed without sacrificing quality.
- Youll help your team push past traditional hiring funnels, identifying creative strategies to bring underrepresented perspectives into the organd building inclusive processes that set every candidate up for success.
- Champion candidate experience and hiring efficiency. Youll work to smooth out friction points in the interview loop, dig into funnel data, and propose scalable solutions to uplevel our process over time.
- Cultivate meaningful partnerships. You'll build strong relationships with Engineering, Product, and Design leaders, acting as a strategic advisor to help them hit their hiring goals thoughtfully and inclusively.
You
About
Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? Weve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here, but here are a few criteria we're looking for in this role:
- You have deep experience hiring across Engineering, Product, and/or Design. Whether its closing senior engineers, building PM pipelines, or navigating niche design skill setsyouve been in the weeds and can help your team win in a competitive market.
- Youve built and led high-performing recruiting teams. You bring significant experience managing both individual contributors and managers, and are known for leading with empathy, giving honest feedback, and developing team members into trusted partners.
- Youre energized by systems and scale. Youve helped build or evolve recruiting programs and processesfrom scorecards to sourcing strategiesand youre eager to continue leveling up how we hire technical talent at Whatnot.
- Youre passionate about building diverse, inclusive teams. You care deeply about equity in hiring and have experience implementing recruiting practices that create access and representation.
- You take ownership and move fast. Whatnot is growing quickly, and hiring is a key growth lever. Youre not afraid to dive in, get scrappy, and find ways to get to great outcomeseven when the path isn't fully clear.
- You know how to craft standout candidate experiences. You treat every interaction as an opportunity to showcase Whatnot's culture, values, and missionbecause you know how much those details matter to technical talent.
- Youre data-literate. You track metrics like time to fill, passthrough rates, and pipeline healthand you use that data to guide your teams strategy and influence stakeholders.
- 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
- 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.
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: $240K - $280K
Seniority level
Seniority level
Director
Employment type
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Job function
Information Technology-
Industries
Technology, Information and Internet
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