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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 $240,000.00/yr - $280,000.00/yr Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
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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
Act as the subject matter authority on all things EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) recruiting. You understand what drives top technical talent—from backend engineers to product managers and designers—and 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 role—you'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, you’ll 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 8–10+ open roles across functions, and you’ll be the calm in the chaos—coaching them through prioritization and delivering speed without sacrificing quality. You’ll help your team push past traditional hiring funnels, identifying creative strategies to bring underrepresented perspectives into the org—and building inclusive processes that set every candidate up for success. Champion candidate experience and hiring efficiency. You’ll 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.
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
About
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, 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 it’s closing senior engineers, building PM pipelines, or navigating niche design skill sets—you’ve been in the weeds and can help your team win in a competitive market. You’ve 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. You’re energized by systems and scale. You’ve helped build or evolve recruiting programs and processes—from scorecards to sourcing strategies—and you’re eager to continue leveling up how we hire technical talent at Whatnot. You’re 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. You’re not afraid to dive in, get scrappy, and find ways to get to great outcomes—even 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 mission—because you know how much those details matter to technical talent. You’re data-literate. You track metrics like time to fill, passthrough rates, and pipeline health—and you use that data to guide your team’s strategy and influence stakeholders.
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
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: $240K - $280K
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Director, Technical Recruiting
role at
Whatnot 2 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Join to apply for the
Director, Technical Recruiting
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 $240,000.00/yr - $280,000.00/yr Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
Making sure you fit the guidelines as an applicant for this role is essential, please read the below carefully.
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
Act as the subject matter authority on all things EPD (Engineering, Product, and Design) recruiting. You understand what drives top technical talent—from backend engineers to product managers and designers—and 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 role—you'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, you’ll 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 8–10+ open roles across functions, and you’ll be the calm in the chaos—coaching them through prioritization and delivering speed without sacrificing quality. You’ll help your team push past traditional hiring funnels, identifying creative strategies to bring underrepresented perspectives into the org—and building inclusive processes that set every candidate up for success. Champion candidate experience and hiring efficiency. You’ll 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.
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
About
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, 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 it’s closing senior engineers, building PM pipelines, or navigating niche design skill sets—you’ve been in the weeds and can help your team win in a competitive market. You’ve 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. You’re energized by systems and scale. You’ve helped build or evolve recruiting programs and processes—from scorecards to sourcing strategies—and you’re eager to continue leveling up how we hire technical talent at Whatnot. You’re 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. You’re not afraid to dive in, get scrappy, and find ways to get to great outcomes—even 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 mission—because you know how much those details matter to technical talent. You’re data-literate. You track metrics like time to fill, passthrough rates, and pipeline health—and you use that data to guide your team’s strategy and influence stakeholders.
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
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: $240K - $280K
Seniority level
Seniority levelDirector Employment type
Employment typeFull-time Job function
Job functionInformation Technology IndustriesTechnology, Information and Internet Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Whatnot by 2x Get notified about new Technical Director jobs in
Seattle, WA . Seattle, WA $162,000.00-$219,000.00 1 week ago Seattle, WA $120,000.00-$150,000.00 1 month ago Bellevue, WA $147,800.00-$343,600.00 4 months ago Bellevue, WA $180,000.00-$220,000.00 2 months ago Seattle, WA $140,000.00-$215,000.00 3 weeks ago Director of Identity and Access Management Seattle, WA $160,000.00-$180,000.00 1 week ago Bellevue, WA $194,100.00-$262,700.00 3 weeks ago Director - Integrated Product Leads Team - GS2PA Engineering Systems Integration Seattle, WA $200,653.00-$296,665.94 2 weeks ago Seattle, WA $157,900.00-$240,100.00 1 month ago Tacoma, WA $115,128.00-$165,672.00 1 day ago Seattle, WA $286,500.00-$382,000.00 4 days ago Seattle, WA $98,000.00-$130,000.00 1 month ago Digital Services Technical Sales DirectorSenior Director of Software Engineering (United States) Greater Seattle Area $216,000.00-$246,853.80 2 months ago Managing Director, Inflight Performance & Crew Scheduling SeaTac, WA $188,650.00-$311,350.00 1 week ago Associate Director -- Infrastructure Transformation Bothell, WA $174,100.00-$261,100.00 1 week ago Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Management (NTD & VDev) Seattle, WA $233,600.00-$394,700.00 2 weeks ago Director Supply Chain Management Information Technology SeaTac, WA $167,050.00-$258,950.00 3 days ago Seattle, WA $200,000.00-$325,000.00 1 week ago Senior Technical Director, Transportation EngineeringDirector of Identity and Access Management (Hybrid - Seattle)Senior Technical Director, Transportation EngineeringSenior Technical Director, Transportation EngineeringSenior Technical Director, Transportation EngineeringDirector of Engineering - Capital Projects Industrial Laundry Seattle, WA $82,000.00-$112,000.00 2 weeks ago Seattle, WA $129,400.00-$276,800.00 22 hours ago Bellevue, WA $253,000.00-$314,000.00 2 weeks ago Bainbridge Island, WA $165,000.00-$195,000.00 4 days ago Senior Technical Director, Transportation Engineering Lynnwood, WA $100,000.00-$130,000.00 2 weeks ago We’re unlocking community knowledge in a new way. Experts add insights directly into each article, started with the help of AI.
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