Data Scientist, Whatnot
Growth Marketing
$205-240k
+ Equity
Live stream platform & marketplace
Job no longer available
Live stream platform & marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$205-240k
+ Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
Role
Who you are
- 4+ years of experience in data science, analytics, or applied statistics, ideally in a marketing, growth, or advertising context
- Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python (or R) for data manipulation, modeling, and analysis
- Experience with marketing measurement techniques (e.g. MMM, incrementality testing, causal inference)
- Strong understanding of digital marketing ecosystems, including paid social, search, display, email, and affiliate channels
- Proven ability to design and analyze A/B and multivariate experiments
- Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate complex analyses into clear, business-focused recommendations
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a quantitative field (e.g., Statistics, Economics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering) or equivalent experience
What the job involves
- You will be the analytical powerhouse behind our marketing initiatives, working end-to-end from data exploration to model deployment.
- Your work will directly influence how we invest in marketing channels, personalize user engagement, and measure ROI at scale
- Design, analyze, and interpret experiments to optimize marketing performance across channels (paid media, lifecycle marketing, influencer partnerships, etc.)
- Build and maintain attribution models to better understand customer journeys and channel impact
- Develop forecasting and optimization tools to allocate budget efficiently and predict campaign performance
- Partner with marketing, product, and engineering teams to create data-driven strategies for audience segmentation and personalized messaging
- Establish scalable measurement frameworks for new marketing channels and campaigns
- Present actionable insights and recommendations to executive leadership in a clear, compelling narrative
Our take
Live shopping is changing the way people engage with eCommerce and Whatnot is one of the key platforms driving this shift. The company operates across the US, UK, and Europe, where millions of people connect each day to buy, sell, and build communities around shared interests.
Founded in 2019, Whatnot allows real-time auctions where buyers can watch sellers showcase products and share their expertise, creating a more interactive and personal shopper experience. Sellers include individual creators and small businesses who use live shows to reach audiences and grow their online presence.
As of 2025, the company reports over $6B in sales, with sellers earning significantly more on average than other major marketplaces. And with a range of investor support, Whatnot is committed to developing new ways to make online shopping more social and community-driven.
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Meet the team
Jon Malkemus, VP Product Design
Insights
54% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Oct 2025
$225m
SERIES F
Jan 2025
$265m
SERIES E
Total funding: $974.2m
Company benefits
- Wellness: Health, dental, vision, and life insurance plans. We also cover some of the cost for your dependents as well.
- Compensation: Generous compensation, including a competitive base salary and equity. Whatnot offers monthly reimbursement for internet and phone costs, along with a one-time home office set-up allowance. Whatnot offers a pension plan and matches employee contributions of up to 4% of the employee’s base salary.
- Recharge: Whatnot gives you the freedom to take time off as you see fit. And, we take company-wide Winter and Summer breaks so we can recharge. Whatnot provides a monthly allowance for wellness expenses. We know that to take care of our customers, we have to take care of ourselves. Supplemental health and life insurance coverage comes standard at Whatnot. 16 weeks of paid parental leave, and an additional one-month gradual return-to-work period.* Plus an additional childcare allowance, and a lifetime allowance for family planning, including adoption and fertility expenses. *The leave allowances provided by Whatnot may be dictated / informed by your country’s legal requirements,
- Flexibility: 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.
Company values
- Always listen to customers
- Move uncomfortably fast
- Prioritize impact ruthlessly
- Own everything and nothing
- Set crazy goals
- Provide extreme transparency
- Optimize for the upside
- Team over ego
- Figure it out
- Deeply understand why
- Have fun & be kind
Company HQ
Venice, Los Angeles, CA
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Leadership
Grant LaFontaine
(Co-Founder & CEO)Former Product Marketing Manager at Google, Project Manager at Facebook. Also co-founded Kit.
Logan Head
(Co-Founder & CTO)Experience in Engineering, including at Maker's Row, Factr, and Flight Club. Former Senior Product Manager at GOAT.
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