Technical Recruiter

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!

Whatnot is the largest livestream 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, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare 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.

💻 Role

• Identify strong technical candidates. You'll experiment by yourself or by working in tandem with hiring managers to reach out efficiently to potential candidates.

• Find or create new sources of talent. LinkedIn might be a good tool, but you'll always look for new and unique ways to source candidates.

• Screen candidates. You'll serve as the filter of the top of the funnel to increase the hiring team’s time and focus on interviewing the best candidates.

• Juggle a variety of roles at once. At any given time you could be managing the pipelines for and working on filling 5-10 (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.

• Cultivate relationships with individuals and groups. You'll help build personal relationships through introductions, references, or by facilitating participation with community groups.

• 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, Los Angeles, or San Francisco hubs.

👋 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 Technical Recruiter, you should have 5+ years of technical recruiting experience in high-growth startups, specifically supporting engineering teams, plus:

• You have previously evaluated candidates for a range of technical roles and levels. You enjoy the challenge of finding world-class talent for hard-to-fill Software Engineering, Security, and Infrastructure roles.

• You're comfortable operating as a full-stack recruiter. You're able to manage the entire process of a candidate end to end.

• You act as a true strategic partner to hiring managers, building close relationships and providing expert guidance throughout the recruitment process.

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

• 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 know that a job search can be nerve-racking and you prioritize providing a more human experience for everyone that interacts with Whatnot during a hiring process.

• You’re extremely organized and can balance multiple competing priorities.

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

• You are a champion for diversity hiring & inclusive interview practices. At Whatnot, we believe hiring and fostering a diverse team is the key to building a successful business.

💛 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.