Senior Technical Recruiter

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.

As a Senior Technical Recruiter, you’ll manage end-to-end recruiting and act as a strategic talent partner for our engineering teams (including Infrastructure or Data/ML pods). You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Lead hiring for specific engineering teams. You'll partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders across Infrastructure or Data/ML, bringing a consultative approach to influence hiring decisions, shape strategies, and align recruiting priorities with broader business goals.

• Source strong technical talent. You’ll experiment and partner with hiring managers to reach top candidates and explore creative channels beyond LinkedIn.

• Act as a full-cycle recruiter from sourcing, screening, managing the candidate through interviews, and closing.

• Assist with developing job posts, hiring plans, and rubrics. You'll work with the hiring manager to tighten up job descriptions, screening rubrics, and guide the hiring process along the way.

• Iterate on candidate feedback. You'll smooth rough edges in the recruiting process by iterating on feedback from candidates or other signals.

• Uplevel the recruiting team. You'll share best practices and help build a culture of continuous improvement that raises the bar for recruiting excellence across the organization.

• Build scalable processes. You'll work on improving and standardizing recruiting workflows that can scale with the company’s growth, creating repeatable and effective practices that can be applied across the business.

• Emphasize diversity. You'll look for proven traditional and creative methods to bring new points of view to the team and encourage inclusive hiring practices.

We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in-person time for planning, problem-solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Seattle hub.

People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.

As our next Senior Technical Recruiter you should have 7+ years of engineering recruiting with a deep network in Infrastructure and/or ML, and experience in high-growth startups or fast-paced companies of scale, plus:

• You have a track record of building Infrastructure and/or ML teams across multiple levels, including leadership. You enjoy the challenge of finding world-class talent for hard-to-fill roles.

• You know how to close in a competitive market. You understand the tech landscape and can paint the picture of how working at Whatnot stacks against other top companies.

• You're comfortable operating as a full-stack recruiter. You're able to manage the entire process of a candidate end to end.

• You act as a true strategic partner to hiring managers, building close relationships and providing expert guidance throughout the recruitment process.

• You're a sourcer at heart. You enjoy sourcing for your positions and take pride in nurturing and building relationships with passive talent.

• You're comfortable with ownership. Whatnot is one of the fastest-growing startups in history, and hiring is key to our success. You should feel comfortable moving uncomfortably fast, managing multiple roles, and being accountable for your work.

• You provide an incredible candidate experience. You know that a job search can be nerve-racking and you prioritize providing a more human experience for everyone that interacts with Whatnot during a hiring process.

• You are data-focused. You measure pipeline health to balance your priorities and set hiring manager expectations.

• You are a champion for diversity hiring & inclusive interview practices. At Whatnot, we believe hiring and fostering a diverse team is the key to building a successful business.

• 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.

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.