Business Operations Manager/Sr Manager

Whatnot; California; On-site; USD 185,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible Time off Policy

Health Insurance options

401k with employer match

Paid parental leave

Job summary

Whatnot, located in California, is seeking a Business Operations Manager to drive critical growth initiatives. This role involves cross-functional collaboration to expand globally and analyze market strategies, ensuring Whatnot meets its ambitious goals.

The ideal candidate will have a Bachelor's degree and 5-6 years of relevant experience, demonstrating an ability to influence and communicate effectively. Benefits include competitive compensation of $185,000-$215,000/year plus comprehensive perks.

Qualifications

• 5-6+ years experience in consulting, investment banking/private equity, or a fast-growing startup.
• Ability to move fast with little structure and guidance.
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functionally and drive change.

Responsibilities

• Lead large, critical initiatives to support company growth.
• Partner with teams to ensure successful market scaling.
• Analyze key margin levers to inform business decisions.

Skills

Curiosity and growth mindset

Ability to work independently

Strong communication skills

Problem-solving with AI tools

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, or related field

Tools

SQL

Dashboards

Job description

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. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. 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.

The Role

The Business Operations Manager / Senior Manager plays a significant role in building the functions to unlock growth and help the Company scale. Working directly with Whatnot's leadership team, this role will work cross-functionally to lead large, critical initiatives and solve complicated, unstructured problems.

This role is a terrific introduction to Whatnot, and allows impactful individuals to learn about the business while contributing to a variety of high-impact, critical initiatives.

• Take Whatnot global: Our team helped launch Whatnot across the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Canada, and is now focused on helping these markets scale — partnering with Product and Engineering to ensure international needs are built into scalable, global solutions, conducting primary research to identify high-impact opportunities across product, pricing, and incentives, and owning the key metrics that define success in each market including buyer and seller funnels, growth, marketing investments, and margin dynamics
• Scale our marketing engine: As Whatnot dramatically scales its investment in marketing, bring business-side rigor to how capital is deployed, measured, and prioritized — deep-diving into complex channel decisions, building nascent capabilities, and ensuring the org and hiring roadmap keeps pace with our ambitions
• Build a great business: Partner with StratFin and Data to ensure we are building a healthy, durable business — leading analyses across our key margin levers and growth investments, informing pricing decisions, and translating findings into concrete recommendations and actions for leadership
• Help Whatnot run better: Build tooling to serve as a single source of truth for tracking progress against aggressive goals, highlighting key metrics, resource allocation, and blockers — helping teams stay lean and iterate faster
• Deliver for our users: Be among the first to pressure-test new products and capabilities Whatnot is building, partnering with Product, Engineering, and Operations to translate what we learn into initiatives that improve the buyer and seller experience — and owning resolution of high-impact issues end-to-end when things go wrong

You

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.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, or related field
• 5-6+ years experience in consulting, investment banking/private equity, or a fast-growing startup
• Able to move remarkably fast with little structure, guidance
• Curious to learn about different parts of the business and how to pull certain levers to grow faster
• Ability to operate independently and go deep on ambiguous projects
• Demonstrated ability to work and influence cross-functionally. You are proactive, great at communicating with different audiences and can bring stakeholders on-board. You seek out and have a track record for driving change and impact in a fluid, unstructured working environment
• Fluency in using AI tools to enhance problem-solving, analysis, and execution across a wide range of business challenges

Nice to Have

• Experience working on a marketplace or a two-sided platform
• Experience or passion for buying and selling in online marketplace communities
• Proficiency with SQL & dashboards

Compensation

For US-based applicants: $185,000/year - 215,000/year + benefits + stock options

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 equity in the form of stock options, or benefits (more details below).

Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a summer and winter break)
• Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Work From Home Support
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
• Care benefits
  • Monthly allowance on 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.