Whatnot
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 Whatnot is seeking a Product Manager to lead the strategy, vision, and execution for our core video platform—the engine that powers real-time, commerce-driven livestreaming. As the most senior IC PM for video, you’ll own the infrastructure, UX, and developer surface area that enables thousands of sellers to go live, millions of users to watch, and seamless transactions to happen in real time.
You will partner closely with engineering, design, infra, and seller-facing teams to scale our low-latency video systems, evolve our broadcast and viewing experience, and enable new formats. Your work will shape the future of livestream and video based shopping. You will:
Own the end-to-end product roadmap for the video platform, from ingestion and encoding to playback and seller tooling.
Define and execute against SLAs for quality, reliability, and latency
Collaborate with infrastructure, client, and ML teams to optimize video delivery and viewer experience
Drive integrations with interactive features (e.g., chat, auctions, overlays) to deepen engagement
Partner with sellers and internal teams to understand pain points and translate them into scalable video solutions
Establish product metrics and experimentation frameworks to validate performance and user impact
This role reports to a Product Director and requires being within commuting distance of one of our office hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York.
You
8+ years of product management experience with a track record of shipping complex, technical products at scale.
2+ years building video experiences (e.g., livestreaming, interactive broadcasts). General streaming or video infrastructure experience is valuable, but success turning it into compelling consumer experiences matters most.
Deep understanding of the dynamics of live vs. asynchronous video: latency/Presence, concurrency, failure modes, moderation, and seller workflows.
Data-driven decision maker who can define the right KPIs, instrument platforms, and run experiments to drive measurable outcomes.
Excellent collaboration and communication across disciplines and levels.
Compensation For US-based applicants: $240,000/year to $275,000/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
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.
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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 Whatnot is seeking a Product Manager to lead the strategy, vision, and execution for our core video platform—the engine that powers real-time, commerce-driven livestreaming. As the most senior IC PM for video, you’ll own the infrastructure, UX, and developer surface area that enables thousands of sellers to go live, millions of users to watch, and seamless transactions to happen in real time.
You will partner closely with engineering, design, infra, and seller-facing teams to scale our low-latency video systems, evolve our broadcast and viewing experience, and enable new formats. Your work will shape the future of livestream and video based shopping. You will:
Own the end-to-end product roadmap for the video platform, from ingestion and encoding to playback and seller tooling.
Define and execute against SLAs for quality, reliability, and latency
Collaborate with infrastructure, client, and ML teams to optimize video delivery and viewer experience
Drive integrations with interactive features (e.g., chat, auctions, overlays) to deepen engagement
Partner with sellers and internal teams to understand pain points and translate them into scalable video solutions
Establish product metrics and experimentation frameworks to validate performance and user impact
This role reports to a Product Director and requires being within commuting distance of one of our office hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, or New York.
You
8+ years of product management experience with a track record of shipping complex, technical products at scale.
2+ years building video experiences (e.g., livestreaming, interactive broadcasts). General streaming or video infrastructure experience is valuable, but success turning it into compelling consumer experiences matters most.
Deep understanding of the dynamics of live vs. asynchronous video: latency/Presence, concurrency, failure modes, moderation, and seller workflows.
Data-driven decision maker who can define the right KPIs, instrument platforms, and run experiments to drive measurable outcomes.
Excellent collaboration and communication across disciplines and levels.
Compensation For US-based applicants: $240,000/year to $275,000/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
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.
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