Recruiter, Operations

Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe to buy, sell, and discover the things you love. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. 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.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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.

We’re looking to hire a Recruiter for our Operations teams (including Customer Experience, Trust & Safety and Fraud). You’ll have the opportunity to:

• Lead hiring for critical high-volume roles. You'll partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders, bringing a consultative approach to influence hiring decisions, shape strategies, and align recruiting priorities with broader business goals.

• Source strong talent. You’ll experiment 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.

• Juggle a variety of roles  any given time you could be managing the pipelines for and working on filling 10-15 (or more at times) open roles.

• 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 mentor peers, 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.

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, or Seattle hubs.

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.

As our next Recruiter, you should have at least two years of full-cycle high volume recruiting experience
, ideally for Operations teams (including Customer Experience, Trust & Safety, and/or Fraud), in fast-paced environments, plus:

• You have proven experience as a full-stack recruiter and know how to manage the entire process of a candidate end to end.

• You love hiring at high volumes. You deliver hires consistently and push through when the market seems to have run dry.

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

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

• 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 sweat the small stuff but keep the big picture in mind. You know that a job search can be nerve-racking and you prioritize providing a more human experience for everyone that interacts with Whatnot…