Whatnot has 33 active AI-related job listings, with a significant focus on agents, which accounts for 64% of their open roles. The majority of these positions are within the Engineering function, and all hiring is currently concentrated in the United States. Their technical needs are reflected in frequent tags such as model_serving, inference_infra, and agent_orchestration. In the last 30 days, Whatnot posted 2 new AI roles, representing a 78% decrease compared to the previous 30-day period.
Whatnot currently has 9 active AI-related roles in our index. The most common open titles are: AI Tooling Engineer, Data Scientist, Risk & Fraud, Engineering Manager, Feed, Machine Learning Engineer, Growth, Software Engineer, AI Dev Tools. Most positions are in Engineering.
Whatnot's active AI hiring is concentrated in: agents (89%), application (11%). These categories follow a seven-stage AI lifecycle: data, pre-training, post-training, serving infrastructure, agents, evaluation, and application.
Whatnot is hiring AI talent in: United States (9 roles).
Job postings at Whatnot most frequently reference: agent orchestration, recommender systems, search ranking, model serving, rag.
In the past 30 days, Whatnot has posted 2 new AI-related roles.
Currently tracking 20 active AI roles, down 31% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $245k–$345k (avg $296k).
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| Software Engineer, Seller Growth Software Engineer on the Seller Growth Platform pod responsible for designing and building systems that sit at the heart of the new seller funnel. This includes developing and scaling systems for identity verification, fraud detection, and automated trust/risk reviews, as well as powering accurate seller identification through enrichment data, signals, and predictive LTV models. The role also involves creating scalable infrastructure like reusable trust and reputation systems and modular fraud prevention frameworks, and driving long-term seller success by enabling better bucketing of sellers by value and risk profile. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Discovery (Search) Software Engineer for the Search team at Whatnot, responsible for building the best search experience for users to find relevant content (streams, products, community). Focuses on taxonomy, search/filters, retrieval/ranking algorithms, and content understanding, using data-informed decisions and shipping quickly. Experience in applied statistical and machine learning fields like Search, Recommendations, Fraud, and Experimentation is required. |
| Ship |
| 5 |
| Software Engineer, Discovery (Feed) Software Engineer for Whatnot's Discovery Feed & Personalization team, focusing on building and scaling backend systems for recommendation and exploration features. The role involves shipping product features, maintaining low-latency feed experiences, enabling exploration systems for sellers, and partnering with ML teams. Requires experience in discovery-related fields and building scalable backend systems. | ShipAgent | 5 |
| Strategic Development Manager This role focuses on managing and scaling relationships with Whatnot sellers, using AI tools and data-driven insights to improve their performance and business growth on the platform. It involves partnership management, category strategy, and go-to-market execution, with a strong emphasis on operational efficiency and data analysis. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Product Analytics Product Data Scientist role at Whatnot, a fast-growing livestream shopping platform. The role focuses on driving insights, experimentation, and decision-making to shape product strategy and user experience. Responsibilities include defining KPIs, analyzing user behavior, designing and evaluating A/B tests, building dashboards and data tools, and collaborating with cross-functional teams. Requires strong SQL, Python/R, A/B testing, and causal inference skills. | — | 5 |
| Disputes Paralegal - (6 month contract) Whatnot is seeking a Disputes Paralegal for a 6-month contract role to support their Legal team. The role involves managing and triaging disputes, drafting responses, maintaining case tracking systems, coordinating with internal stakeholders, and assisting with workflow refinement. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of paralegal experience, strong communication and organizational skills, and familiarity with AI tools for legal operations. | — | 1 |
| Strategy & Operations Director, Commerce This role drives business decisions across Whatnot's marketplace ecosystem, focusing on buyer and seller experience, trust, risk, fraud, logistics, and payments. The Director will set and execute strategy for post-purchase operations, translate insights into actionable roadmaps, lead cross-functional initiatives, and design scalable processes and systems to support growth. The role requires strong analytical skills, experience in fast-paced environments, and the ability to influence senior leadership. | — | 0 |
| Sr. Creative Strategist, Copy - In-house Performance Marketing This role is for a Sr. Creative Strategist focused on Performance Marketing at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. The individual will lead the strategy, development, and execution of performance creative across international marketing channels, partnering with various teams to drive conversion, engagement, and growth. Responsibilities include briefing and creative direction, building a pipeline of creative concepts with a test-and-learn cycle, writing DRTV scripts, analyzing performance data to refine strategy, and staying ahead of trends. The role requires strong writing skills for various ad formats and the ability to interpret data to improve creative output. Experience in performance creative, paid social, and in-house consumer brand experience is essential, with a plus for DRTV/CTV experience. | — | 0 |
| Operations Manager, Australia Operations Manager role at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. This role focuses on strategic planning, operational rigor, and execution to enable business scaling. Responsibilities include designing and assessing strategic initiatives, identifying and implementing process/technology/AI solutions to improve execution, developing reporting and dashboards, and supporting event planning and day-to-day operational needs. The ideal candidate has 5+ years of experience in business operations, strategy, or chief of staff roles, with strong analytical and project management skills, an operational builder mindset, and fluency in data and AI tools. | — | 0 |
| Category Manager, Australia This role is for a Category Manager in Australia, responsible for launching and scaling a new category on the Whatnot platform. The role involves building relationships with influencers and sellers, developing a seller pipeline, advising sellers on business growth, and using data analysis to drive category performance. It requires experience in fast-paced, client-facing roles and strategic thinking. | — | 0 |
| Category Manager, Australia - Cards & Collectibles Category Manager for Whatnot in Australia, focusing on launching and scaling a new category, building seller and buyer communities, and using data to drive growth. This is a founding team member role in the Australian market. | — | 0 |
| Category Manager, Australia - Fashion Category Manager for Whatnot's fashion vertical in Australia, responsible for launching and scaling the category, building seller and buyer communities, and driving growth through data-driven strategies. | — | 0 |
| Marketing Manager, Digital Events Marketing Manager, Digital Events at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. This role focuses on executing app-wide digital events to drive buyer engagement and seller participation, manage event timelines, coordinate assets, support promotion, and analyze post-event performance to improve future events. It requires strong execution, cross-functional communication, and a bias for action. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Orders Platform Engineering Manager for Whatnot's Orders Platform, responsible for leading a team that builds and operates systems supporting hundreds of millions of orders globally. The role focuses on reliability, scale, and correctness of the core order lifecycle, partnering with various internal teams and ensuring customer experiences are seamless. | — | 0 |
| Manager, Fraud Operations Manager of Fraud Operations at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. This role focuses on leading a team of operators and team leads to improve customer experience, analyze systemic issues, and implement solutions to fraud-related problems. The role involves driving process improvement, setting team vision, establishing goals, and influencing operations/product strategy through data analysis and communication. | — | 0 |
| Paid Creative Ops Manager Whatnot is seeking a Paid Creative Ops Manager to own the operational layer behind their paid creative engine. This role involves defining creative performance frameworks, improving operational systems, managing production workflows, and automating tooling. The ideal candidate will have experience in consulting, creative operations, or strategy and operations at a high-growth consumer company, with a track record of building scalable systems and strong analytical and project management skills. | — | 0 |
| International Strategy & Operations Manager, Logistics This role is for an International Strategy & Operations Manager, Logistics at Whatnot. The primary focus is on managing and scaling logistics operations across European markets, including carrier performance, operational response to disruptions, and navigating regulatory complexities. The role requires experience in strategy, operations, and logistics, with a strong understanding of European markets and carrier networks. It involves partnering with various internal teams and influencing product roadmaps related to logistics. | — | 0 |
| Senior Backend Engineer, International Eng Senior Backend Engineer for Whatnot's International Engineering team, focusing on building scalable systems for cross-border transactions, tax/regulatory compliance, and international post-purchase experiences. Requires strong backend, distributed systems, and Python/Go experience. | — | 0 |
| Creator Marketing Associate (German-speaking) Whatnot is seeking a Creator Marketing Associate for their EU marketing team to scale the creator engine behind their paid ads. This role involves sourcing, signing, briefing, and managing creators across Europe to produce high-performing short-form video content for paid social. The associate will work at the intersection of creator partnerships, performance marketing, and creative strategy, building and managing a scalable EU creator roster and optimizing content based on performance data. | — | 0 |
| Customer Success Manager Customer Success Manager at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. Focuses on driving sustainable business growth and fostering deep relationships with sellers, acting as a trusted advisor and business consultant. Manages a pipeline of high-growth sellers, develops strategies for adoption, growth, and retention, and partners with cross-functional teams to advocate for seller needs. Uses data to identify growth opportunities, diagnose issues, and make recommendations. Tests new tactics and strategies to unlock growth for sellers and improve team efficiency. Requires strong selling, relationship-building, customer instinct, ownership, resourcefulness, speed, adaptability, teamwork, analytical judgment, and comfort holding sellers accountable. AI-forward working habits are encouraged to improve efficiency and decision-making. | — | 0 |
| Events Producer Whatnot is seeking an Events Producer to own and execute tradeshows and experiential activations, focusing on building and strengthening their seller community. This role involves strategic planning, end-to-end event execution, program design, logistics management, and budget ownership, requiring a blend of strategic thinking and hands-on execution. | — | 0 |
| Partnerships Associate Whatnot is seeking a Partnerships Associate to become a category expert, focusing on seller outreach, onboarding, relationship management, and driving growth through marketing initiatives and data analytics. This role requires a passion for the mission, experience in fast-paced client-facing roles, strong project management skills, and business acumen. | — | 0 |
| Country Marketing Manager, Canada Country Marketing Manager for Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform, focusing on driving hyper-growth and seller business expansion in Canada. Responsibilities include owning buyer acquisition, identifying PR and influencer opportunities, developing social media strategy, building seller resources, and measuring marketing initiative effectiveness. | — | 0 |
| Account Executive (German-speaking) Account Executive for Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform, responsible for acquiring and nurturing new German-speaking livestream sellers. This role involves managing the full sales cycle, from prospecting and pitching to closing deals and providing strategic coaching to sellers to help them scale their businesses on the platform. The goal is to meet and exceed sales targets by effectively managing a pipeline of potential sellers. | — | 0 |
| Lead Motion Designer Lead Motion Designer at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform, responsible for shaping the brand's visual identity through 2D and 3D motion graphics for campaigns, launches, and on-platform experiences. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to deliver high-impact creative work. | — | 0 |
| Trust & Risk Agent, Japan This role focuses on maintaining the safety and integrity of the Whatnot platform by identifying potential risks, enforcing policies, and protecting the buyer and seller experience. The agent will conduct investigations, communicate with customers, and analyze trends to improve mitigation strategies. This is a customer-facing role within Trust & Safety operations. | — | 0 |
| Marketing Manager, Japan Marketing Manager for Whatnot's Japan market, focused on building marketplace liquidity by growing seller supply and activating local communities. Responsibilities include managing relationships with influencers and partners, executing marketing initiatives, managing social media, and creating campaigns. Requires 5-10 years of marketing experience, strong track record in go-to-market strategies, influencer marketing expertise, and fluency in English and Japanese. | — | 0 |
| Category Associate, Japan This role focuses on growing seller communities for Whatnot's launch in Japan. Responsibilities include becoming a category expert, seller outreach and onboarding, relationship management, spearheading marketing initiatives, and using data analytics (SQL) to derive insights and enhance process efficiency. The ideal candidate has 3+ years of experience in sales/account management, is comfortable with ambiguity, has business acumen, and speaks fluent English and native Japanese. | — | 0 |
| Head of Corporate PR Lead corporate PR strategy for Whatnot, a fast-growing livestream shopping platform. Focus on building and protecting the company's reputation with press, partners, and industry. Responsibilities include shaping corporate brand narrative, leading financial communications, managing reputational risk, and driving B2B/partner communications. Reports to VP of Communications & Policy. | — | 0 |
| Head of Corporate PR Head of Corporate PR for Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. This role will lead the corporate PR strategy, focusing on building and protecting the company's reputation with the press, key partners, and the broader industry. Responsibilities include shaping the corporate brand and business narrative, leading financial communications, managing reputational risk, and driving B2B, partner, and industry communications. The role requires extensive experience in corporate communications, strong media relationships, and the ability to advise senior leadership. | — | 0 |
| Strategy & Operations Senior Manager, Japan Strategy & Operations Senior Manager for Whatnot's Japan market, focusing on post-purchase operations, user experience, and driving business decisions across the marketplace ecosystem. This role requires strong analytical and execution skills to translate insights into scalable processes and strategic recommendations for senior leadership. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Backend Platforms Whatnot is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Backend Platforms team. This role will own the strategy and execution of backend systems powering their livestream shopping platform, including Python and Elixir cores, realtime services, and the storage/database layer. The manager will lead senior ICs and potentially other managers, focusing on platform reliability, performance, and developer ergonomics. The role requires strong technical grounding in backend systems at scale and experience managing engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Engineering Manager, Backend Platforms Whatnot is seeking an Engineering Manager for their Backend Platforms team. This role will own the strategy and execution of backend systems powering their livestream shopping platform, including Python and Elixir cores, realtime services, and the storage/database layer. The manager will lead senior ICs and potentially other managers, focusing on platform reliability, performance, and developer ergonomics. The role requires strong technical grounding in backend systems at scale and experience managing engineering teams. | — | 0 |
| Trust & Risk Team Lead This role is a Team Lead position within a Trust & Risk department, focusing on managing a pod of agents and specialists, scaling operational frameworks, and improving user trust. Responsibilities include daily triage, re-review workflows, setting evidence standards, partnering cross-functionally, and contributing requirements to tooling and lightweight automation. The role requires leadership experience, hands-on experience with appeals/escalations, analytical skills, and strong communication. | — | 0 |
| Trust & Risk Team Lead Lead a team of Trust & Risk agents and specialists, focusing on scaling operational frameworks, managing daily workflows, and improving user trust by reducing wrongful enforcement. This role involves managing direct reports, owning execution of review processes, building team and operational frameworks, and partnering with Data, Policy, Product, and Legal to measure and improve outcomes through insights and tooling requirements. | — | 0 |
| Planning Analyst, Workforce Management This role is for a Planning Analyst in Workforce Management at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. The analyst will partner with operations and agent teams to manage short-term scheduling, real-time analysis, and performance signal generation. They will act as a trusted operational advisor to those managing agents, ensuring schedules reflect demand and agent availability, monitoring intraday performance, and providing feedback to capacity planners. The role requires strong data analysis skills, SQL proficiency, and familiarity with WFM tools and intraday queue management. | — | 0 |
| Planning Analyst, Workforce Management This role is for a Planning Analyst on the Workforce Management team at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. The analyst will partner with operations and agent teams, focusing on short-term scheduling, real-time analysis of queue performance, consulting with Team Leads and Senior Managers, generating performance signals for L&D and QA, providing feedback to capacity planners, managing schedule adherence, and sourcing OT/flex staffing. The role requires strong data analysis skills, SQL proficiency, and familiarity with WFM tools and intraday queue management. | — | 0 |
| Head of Total Rewards Head of Total Rewards to build and run the function at Whatnot, owning how the company pays, rewards, and supports its team as it scales. This includes compensation philosophy, equity strategy, benefits, mobility, and the systems and team behind it. The role operates at both strategy and execution levels, setting direction, designing frameworks, advising leadership and the Board, and running the actual work. | — | 0 |
| Head of Total Rewards Head of Total Rewards to build and run the function at Whatnot, owning how the company pays, rewards, and supports its team as it scales. This includes compensation philosophy, equity strategy, benefits, mobility, and the systems and team behind it. The role operates at both strategy and execution levels, setting direction, designing frameworks, advising leadership and the Board, and running the actual work. | — | 0 |
| Trust and Safety Team Lead, International This role is a Team Lead for the Trust and Safety team at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. The focus is on improving user experience through process optimization, order management, and problem-solving. The lead will manage a team of agents, drive productivity and quality, and provide user insights to the business. Responsibilities include performance management, incident management, reporting, and cross-functional partnership to address product or experience gaps. The role requires strong leadership, analytical skills, and experience in trust, risk, and safety operations, with a preference for marketplace or e-commerce backgrounds. | — | 0 |
| Strategy & Operations Senior Manager, Australia Strategy & Operations Senior Manager for Whatnot's Australian market, focusing on post-purchase operations, user experience, and driving business decisions across the marketplace ecosystem. This role involves setting strategy, implementing changes, leading cross-functional initiatives, and providing data-driven recommendations to senior leaders. | — | 0 |
| People Operations Partner This role is for a People Operations Partner at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. The focus is on building and scaling HR infrastructure, including compliance, auditing, reporting, payroll, and core HR operations. The ideal candidate will have experience in People Ops or HR operations, be a Workday expert, and enjoy process improvement and project management in a fast-growing environment. | — | 0 |
| People Operations Partner This role is focused on building scalable, compliant, and data-driven People Operations infrastructure, with a strong emphasis on accuracy, audit readiness, and operational excellence. The People Operations Partner will strengthen People infrastructure across compliance, auditing, reporting, and core HR operations like payroll and time & attendance, partnering cross-functionally to deliver accurate, scalable, and efficient operations across the employee lifecycle. | — | 0 |
| Category Marketing Manager Marketing Manager responsible for driving hyper-growth and helping sellers grow their businesses fast by developing and executing marketing plans centered around generating demand from new and existing buyers. This role will own buyer acquisition across a priority category, devise campaigns and events, manage influencers, and partner with other marketers. | — | 0 |
| Category Marketing Manager Marketing Manager responsible for driving hyper-growth and helping sellers grow their businesses fast by developing and executing marketing plans centered around generating demand from new and existing buyers. This role will own buyer acquisition across a priority category, devise campaigns and events, manage influencers, and partner with other marketers. | — | 0 |
| Strategy and Operations Manager, Revenue Operations This role is on the Revenue Operations team, supporting Sales and Post Sales teams in growing the seller base and partnerships. Responsibilities include working with the data team on reporting and analysis, taking on strategic operational projects, developing playbooks, supporting GTM leaders with data and insights, and analyzing the competitive landscape and market trends to inform GTM strategy. The role requires strong analytical skills, SQL and Excel proficiency, and experience supporting post-sales motions in a high-growth startup. | — | 0 |
| Strategy and Operations Manager, Revenue Operations This role is for a Strategy and Operations Manager on the Revenue Operations team at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. The role focuses on supporting Sales and Post Sales teams by working with the data team on reporting and analysis, taking on strategic projects, developing playbooks, and supporting GTM leaders. It requires strong analytical skills, SQL, Excel, and experience supporting post-sales motions in a high-growth startup. The role is not directly AI/ML focused but operates within a consumer tech company. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager, Payments Product Manager for Whatnot's core payments platform, responsible for strategy and execution of systems handling buyer payments, seller payouts, and money movement across the marketplace. Focuses on growth, financial controls, risk management, and international expansion, working cross-functionally with Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Operations. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager, Logistics Product Manager for Logistics at Whatnot, focusing on shaping systems and experiences for shipping on the platform. Responsibilities include ensuring all items can be shipped, improving reliability and affordability, and driving sustainable logistics economics. The role involves partnering with Engineering, Design, Data Science, and Operations. | — | 0 |
| Product Manager, Logistics Product Manager for the Logistics team at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. This role will focus on shaping the systems and experiences for shipping on the platform, impacting seller success, buyer trust, and marketplace economics. Responsibilities include identifying shipping options for new categories/countries, ensuring shipping reliability, improving affordability and transparency, and driving sustainable logistics economics. The role requires close collaboration with Engineering, Design, Data Science, and Operations. | — | 0 |