Whatnot

Whatnot

Business Operations Manager/Sr Manager - German or French Speaking

New York, NY · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 103 days ago
SQLResearchLeadershipCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

  • 🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
  • We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes.

Responsibilities

  • Build tooling to serve as a single source of truth for tracking progress against aggressive goals, highlighting key metrics, resource allocation, and blockers - helping teams stay lean and iterate faster
  • Work From Home Support

Nice to have

  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, or related field
  • 5-6+ years experience in consulting, investment banking/private equity, or a fast-growing startup
  • Professional fluency in German or French, with strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to move remarkably fast with little structure, guidance
  • Curious to learn about different parts of the business and how to pull certain levers to grow faster
  • Ability to operate independently and go deep on ambiguous projects
  • Demonstrated ability to work and influence cross-functionally.
  • You are proactive, great at communicating with different audiences and can bring stakeholders on-board.

Compensation

  • Annual allowance towards childcare

Benefits

  • Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a summer and winter break)
  • Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, and Vision
  • Home office setup allowance
  • Monthly allowance on wellness
  • Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
  • Parental Leave

Company info

  • 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 move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.
  • 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.
  • The Business Operations Manager / Senior Manager plays a significant role in building the functions to unlock growth and help the Company scale.
  • Working directly with Whatnot's leadership team, this role will work cross-functionally to lead large, critical initiatives and solve complicated, unstructured problems.
  • This role is a terrific introduction to Whatnot, and allows impactful individuals to learn about the business while contributing to a variety of high-impact, critical initiatives.
  • Partner with StratFin and Data to ensure we are building a healthy, durable business - leading analyses across our key margin levers and growth investments, informing pricing decisions, and translating findings into concrete recommendations and actions for leadership

This listing is sourced directly from Whatnot's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.