Business Operations Manager, Whatnot
International
$120-140k
+ Equity
More information about location
Live stream platform & marketplace
Job no longer available
Live stream platform & marketplace
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$120-140k
+ Equity
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, or related field
- 5-6+ years experience in consulting or a fast-growing startup
- Curious to learn about different parts of the business and how to pull certain levers to grow faster
- Low ego - happy to do anything it takes to help us grow
- Able to move remarkably fast with little structure or oversight
- Proven leadership and relationship-building skills
- Demonstrated ability to solve problems using data and process improvement
Desirable
- Experience working on a marketplace or a two-sided platform
- Experience or passion for buying and selling in online marketplace communities
- Foreign languages
- SQL & Dashboard experience
What the job involves
- This Business Operations Manager will be joining our growing International team and help us scale our business outside the US
- Working directly with Whatnot's international leadership team, this role will lead large cross-functional initiatives and solve complicated, unstructured problems
- With the amount of opportunity that exists internationally, this role is a terrific way to get your hands dirty in a start-up within a start-up
- It allows driven individuals to have outsized impact and learn about the business while contributing to critical initiatives
- Lead cross-functional projects to scale functions and capabilities internationally
- Proactively identify inhibitors to growth and find ways to solve them
- Help various parts of the international business mature
- Define and measure critical business metrics
- Drive efficiency and transparency in processes
Salary benchmarks
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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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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
Articles
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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