Category Manager

🚀 Whatnot

Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform and marketplace backed by Andreessen Horowitz Y Combinator and CapitalG. We’re building the future of ecommerce bringing together community shopping and entertainment. We are committed to our values and as a remote-first team we operate out of hubs within the US Canada UK Ireland and Germany today.

We’re innovating in the fast-paced world of live auctions in categories including sports fashion video games and streetwear. The platform couples rigorous seller vetting with a focus on community to create a welcoming space for buyers and sellers to share their passions with others.

And we’re growing. Whatnot has been the fastest growing marketplace in the US over the past two years and we’re hiring forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas.

💻  Role

Launch your category

• Launch and own an entirely new category in Germany

• Strategize the best ways to scale your efforts to make the category successful

• Work towards growing your category with General Manager as a potential next career step

Create community-defining moments

• Build relationships with influencers planning and executing activations to bring their audiences onto Whatnot

• Organize and execute on-app and in person events connected to the most exciting products moments and fandoms related to your category

Build our seller community

• Build and pursue a pipeline of sellers in your category across individual resellers influencers and shops

• Identify and bring on board high-potential sellers managing ongoing relationships and day-to-day communications

• Advise sellers on ways to grow their businesses on Whatnot. Create the next generation of top sellers in your category

• Stay close to sellers and buyers in the ecosystem to understand user needs and provide the product team with key user insights and problems to solve.

Use data and strategic thinking to propel your category forward

• Utilize large sets of data efficiently in order to inform category & project plans as well as track and report on outcomes

• Be able to jump in ramp up quickly and independently drive strategic projects both in your own category and across partnerships when needed

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our Berlin Germany hub.

👋  You

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 Category Manager Germany you should have 4+ years of experience working in a fast-paced client-facing role in high output environments such as Strategy Consulting Private Equity or partnerships at a fast-paced tech company plus:

• Experience working in a business development or partner-facing role

• Fluent German and English speaker and familiarity with the DACH market

• You have experience building and executing against a pipeline of targets

• You are scrappy and flexible enough to work in a fast-paced startup environment with limited guidance and are comfortable pivoting quickly as needed

• You are a strategic and creative thinker who can turn research and data into actionable plans

• Passion for creator communities and/or expertise in existing Whatnot product categories (e.g. vintage clothing collectibles)

• Experience at a high-growth startup marketplace or creator-focused platform a plus

• Proficiency in SQL a plus

• Experience buying and selling in online marketplaces a plus

💰Compensation

€75000/year - €130000/year + benefits + equity

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including level relevant prior experience skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary not benefits (more details below) or equity.

🎁  Benefits

• Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)

• Health Insurance options including Medical Dental Vision

• Work From Home Support

  • $1000 home office setup allowance

  • $150 monthly allowance for cell phone and internet

• Care benefits

  • $450 monthly allowance on food

  • $500 monthly allowance for wellness

  • $5000 annual allowance towards Childcare

  • $20000 lifetime benefit for family planning such as adoption or fertility expenses

• Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally

• Parental Leave

  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work *company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.

💛  EOE

Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and we do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status veteran status parental status disability status or any other status protected by local law. We believe that our work is better and our company culture is improved when we encourage support and respect the different skills and experiences represented within our workforce.