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
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