Recruiting Manager, Early Talent

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.

As the Recruiting Manager, Early Talent, you’ll lead Whatnot’s global early career team and recruiting efforts. You will own all strategic initiatives such as outreach, New Grad and Intern recruitment, talent mapping and assessment – with plenty of room to innovate as we scale.

• Design and implement Whatnot’s early career recruiting strategy for engineering, data, operations, and GTM talent across the US and international hubs

• Lead and grow a high performing team of recruiters focused on early career hiring, while maintaining a hands-on approach to hiring yourself

• Build and scale Early Talent programs across outreach, New Grad and Intern recruitment, talent mapping and assessment.

• Build and maintain strategic partnerships with key universities and academic programs worldwide

• Implement creative and scalable sourcing strategies aimed at attracting a diverse range of candidates from campuses across the country. 

• Increase brand awareness of Whatnot as a top destination for early career talent, creating memorable experiences leveraging virtual and in-person events, swag, marketing, and beyond. 

• Collaborate with global engineering, business, and people leaders to drive hiring strategies and align with headcount planning

• Manage budgets and allocate resources effectively across global recruiting initiatives

• Develop standardized, data-driven metrics and KPIs to measure early career hiring success

Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York, San Francisco, or Los Angeles hubs.

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.

As our next Recruiting Manager, Early Talent, you should have at least 3+ years of leading Early Talent recruiting teams at high-growth companies, plus:

• You have experience hiring Early Talent across technical and non-technical roles. Whether it’s innovating on a campus outreach strategy or figuring out the best way to attract early career sales talent—you’ve been in the weeds and can help win in a competitive market.

• You’ve built and led high-performing recruiting teams. You are known for leading with empathy, giving honest feedback, and developing team members into trusted partners.

• You’re energized by building systems and scaling. You’ve helped build or evolve recruiting programs and processes, and you’re eager to continue leveling up how we hire Early Talent at Whatnot.

• You take ownership and move fast. Whatnot is growing quickly, and hiring for Early Talent is a key growth lever. You’re not afraid to dive in, get scrappy, and find ways to get to great outcomes—even when the path isn't fully clear.

• You know how to craft standout candidate experiences. You empower the team to treat every interaction as an opportunity to showcase Whatnot's culture, values, and mission—because you know how much those details matter to early career talent.

• You’re data-literate. You track metrics like time to fill, passthrough rates, and pipeline health—and you use that data to guide your team’s strategy and influence stakeholders.

• 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

  • Home office setup allowance

  • Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet

• Care benefits

  • Monthly allowance for wellness

  • Annual allowance towards Childcare

  • 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

• Monthly allowance to dogfood the app

  • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).

• 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.

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.