Product Manager Payments

Whatnot is the largest livestream 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.

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.

We're looking for an experienced Product Manager Payments to lead the strategy and execution of the core payments platform and experiences that underpin the Whatnot marketplace. You will own the systems that power how buyers pay how sellers get paid and how money moves through our ecosystem—processing billions in annual GMV across 50+ categories and enabling payouts to tens of thousands of sellers globally.

In this role you will work across the full payments stack from payment initiation and processing to payouts refunds financial data infrastructure and incentive instruments. You will partner closely with Engineering Design Finance Trust & Safety Legal CX Operations and other product teams to deliver capabilities that unlock growth while maintaining strong financial controls and managing risk.

You will report to a VP of Product. Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York NY San Francisco CA Seattle WA or Los Angeles CA hubs.

You will:

• Own the product vision and roadmap for Payments balancing short-term wins with long-term platform investments that support extremely fast growth and international expansion.

• Deeply understand stakeholder needs – from sellers managing their businesses to Finance teams closing monthly books to CX resolving refund disputes; and translate them into clear product strategies and scalable systems.

• Define and own core payments metrics including authorization rates payout success refund rates processing costs and financial accuracy. Use these to guide prioritization and measure impact.

• Drive execution across multiple workstreams coordinating backend payments systems payment integrations and frontend UX while managing dependencies and timelines.

• Build the financial data foundation the business needs including ledger systems that power internal reporting seller transparency and tools they need and accurate month-end closes.

• Partner cross-functionally with Finance Legal Trust & Safety CX and Operations to ensure compliance manage risk appropriately and support efficient operations at scale.

• Establish metrics and experimentation frameworks to validate performance test new capabilities and continuously improve outcomes for users and internal teams.

What We’re Looking For:

• 10+ years of product management experience with significant focus on payments products and platforms (card/alternative payments payouts refunds chargebacks ledger systems).

• Proven experience owning high-volume mission-critical payments systems at marketplace fintech or platform companies including deep familiarity with processors like Stripe Braintree Adyen or similar.

• Strong product leadership including setting strategy influencing cross-functional partners and driving complex initiatives from 0→1 and 1→N.

• Deep understanding of financial data reconciliation and reporting particularly supporting Finance Accounting and month-end close processes in high-transaction-volume environments.

• Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous fast-paced environments making sound decisions with imperfect information and balancing speed with risk and quality.

• Proven track record using data and experimentation to inform product decisions measure impact and iterate on complex systems.

• Strong product discovery and execution skills translating multi-stakeholder problems into clear requirements and simple intuitive experiences.

• Excellent cross-functional communication with experience partnering closely with Engineering Design Finance Legal CX/Ops and risk-oriented teams.

• High empathy for users and stakeholders with passion for building trustworthy transparent financial experiences.

• Nice to have: Experience in a marketplace or multi-sided platform where payments incentives and marketplace dynamics are tightly coupled.

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.

What We Do

We bring people together around the things they love and turn their passions into their livelihood.

Why Work With Us

Passion is the centerpiece of our culture. We’ve got passionate buyers sellers and employees. We want you to bring your passions to Whatnot.

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