Whatnot · 13 hours ago
Senior Design Recruiter
Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, focused on redefining e-commerce through community and entertainment. They are seeking a Senior Design Recruiter to manage end-to-end recruiting for their Product Design and Creative Teams, emphasizing diversity and building scalable processes.
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Responsibilities
Lead hiring for our Design teams. You'll partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders, bringing a consultative approach to influence hiring decisions, shape strategies, and align recruiting priorities with broader business goals
Source strong design talent. You’ll experiment and partner with hiring managers to reach top candidates and explore creative channels beyond LinkedIn
Act as a full-cycle recruiter from sourcing, screening, managing the candidate through interviews, and closing
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 of varying complexity and seniority
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
Uplevel the recruiting team. You'll mentor peers, share best practices, and help build a culture of continuous improvement that raises the bar for recruiting excellence across the organization
Build scalable processes. You'll work on improving and standardizing recruiting workflows that can scale with the company’s growth, creating repeatable and effective practices that can be applied across the business
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
Qualification
Required
7+ Years Of Product Design And/or Creative Recruiting With a Deep Network And Experience In High-growth Startups Or Fast-paced Companies Of Scale
A track record of filling Product Design and Creative roles across multiple levels, including leadership
Comfortable operating as a full-stack recruiter, managing the entire process of a candidate end to end
Enjoy sourcing for positions and take pride in nurturing and building relationships with passive talent
Comfortable moving uncomfortably fast, managing multiple roles, and being accountable for work
Provide an incredible candidate experience, prioritizing a more human experience for everyone that interacts with Whatnot during a hiring process
Extremely organized and can balance multiple competing priorities
Data-focused, measuring pipeline health to balance priorities and set hiring manager expectations
Champion for diversity hiring & inclusive interview practices
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
+ Home office setup allowance
+ Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
Care benefits
+ Monthly allowance on both food and 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
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.
Company
Whatnot
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform for buying and selling products.
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$974.7MKey Investors
CapitalGY Combinator Continuity FundAndreessen Horowitz
2025-10-28Series F· $225M
2025-01-08Series E· $265M
2022-07-21Series D· $260M
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