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Product Designer, Trust & Risk
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Whatnot
This range is provided by Whatnot. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range $153,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr
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 redefining 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.
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’re looking for a Product Designer to join our Trust & Risk team—someone who’s passionate about creating thoughtful, scalable systems that protect and empower our community. In this role, you’ll design tools, workflows, and user experiences that help identify and prevent abuse, enforce platform policies fairly, and support users throughout their safety journeys—from proactive education to responsive resolution.
You’ll partner closely with product designers, product managers, engineers, operations, data scientists, and policy experts to build solutions that balance safety, speed, and user trust—whether you're designing an appeals experience, reviews, internal enforcement tooling, or real-time interventions during live shows.
Design end-to-end experiences that protect the integrity of the platform while minimizing friction for good users
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex policies and workflows into intuitive product experiences
Create wireframes, prototypes, and final visuals that bring clarity to ambiguous trust and safety problems
Contribute to the broader design system while advocating for accessibility and inclusive user experiences
Use data, research, and feedback to iterate on existing tools and identify areas for improvement
Support the internal teams who moderate content, review reports, and resolve user issues with efficient and usable tooling
You Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.
As Our Next Product Designer, You Should Have 4+ Years Of Experience Designing Digital Products, Ideally Including Work On Trust, Safety, Compliance, Or Integrity Teams, Plus
Strong interaction and systems thinking—you can untangle complex flows and design for edge cases
Strong Portfolio that demonstrates your experience
Expertise in design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Protopie, Framer, etc.)
Deep understanding of user experience design principles and methodologies, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, or Los Angeles, CA hubs.
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: $153K - $200K
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
Industries: Technology, Information and Internet
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Product Designer, Trust & Risk
role at
Whatnot
This range is provided by Whatnot. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range $153,000.00/yr - $200,000.00/yr
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 redefining 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.
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’re looking for a Product Designer to join our Trust & Risk team—someone who’s passionate about creating thoughtful, scalable systems that protect and empower our community. In this role, you’ll design tools, workflows, and user experiences that help identify and prevent abuse, enforce platform policies fairly, and support users throughout their safety journeys—from proactive education to responsive resolution.
You’ll partner closely with product designers, product managers, engineers, operations, data scientists, and policy experts to build solutions that balance safety, speed, and user trust—whether you're designing an appeals experience, reviews, internal enforcement tooling, or real-time interventions during live shows.
Design end-to-end experiences that protect the integrity of the platform while minimizing friction for good users
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex policies and workflows into intuitive product experiences
Create wireframes, prototypes, and final visuals that bring clarity to ambiguous trust and safety problems
Contribute to the broader design system while advocating for accessibility and inclusive user experiences
Use data, research, and feedback to iterate on existing tools and identify areas for improvement
Support the internal teams who moderate content, review reports, and resolve user issues with efficient and usable tooling
You Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.
As Our Next Product Designer, You Should Have 4+ Years Of Experience Designing Digital Products, Ideally Including Work On Trust, Safety, Compliance, Or Integrity Teams, Plus
Strong interaction and systems thinking—you can untangle complex flows and design for edge cases
Strong Portfolio that demonstrates your experience
Expertise in design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Protopie, Framer, etc.)
Deep understanding of user experience design principles and methodologies, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing
Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams
Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Seattle, WA, or Los Angeles, CA hubs.
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: $153K - $200K
Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Design, Art/Creative, and Information Technology
Industries: Technology, Information and Internet
Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Whatnot by 2x
#J-18808-Ljbffr