Senior Technical Recruiter

Whatnot is the largest live 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'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. You’ll have the opportunity to:

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

• Source strong technical talent. You’ll leverage AI tooling and partner with hiring managers to reach top candidates and explore creative channels beyond Linked In.

• 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 San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, or NYC 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 at high-growth startups or fast-paced companies of scale, plus:

• 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  enjoy sourcing for your positions and take pride in nurturing and building relationships with…