Currently tracking 20 active AI roles, down 31% versus the prior 4 weeks. Primary focus: Agent · Engineering. Salary range $245k–$345k (avg $296k).
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 mention: Machine Learning, Statistics, ML Ops, Tool-Using Agents, System Design.
In the past 30 days, Whatnot has posted 2 new AI-related roles.
| Title | Stage | AI score |
|---|---|---|
| AI Tooling Engineer Senior AI Engineer to build internal tools, prototypes, and business workflows that put AI into the hands of every team at Whatnot. This role involves owning ambiguous, cross-org bets end-to-end, shipping working software fast, hardening what works, and scaling how Whatnot gets value out of AI. The engineer will define reusable patterns and shared infrastructure, integrate AI tools with internal systems, and stay ahead of the AI landscape. This is a builder role focused on applying off-the-shelf AI, not model training or research. | Agent | 8 |
| Machine Learning Engineer, Growth Machine Learning Engineer focused on driving top-of-funnel growth and first-time buyer success for a livestream shopping platform. This role will build and own ML models for personalization in onboarding and user targeting, impacting buyer growth and first-time user conversion. | Ship | 7 |
| Software Engineer, AI Dev Tools Software Engineer to build and own AI tooling for the engineering organization, focusing on AI coding agents and assistants. This role involves building infrastructure, workflows, and orchestration systems for AI agents to operate within the company's codebase and processes, enabling both engineers and non-engineers to leverage AI tools effectively. The role requires strong software engineering skills and familiarity with current AI development tools. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Trust & Risk Software Engineer role focused on building systems for trust, risk, fraud, and integrity within a consumer marketplace. The role involves designing and developing production algorithms and infrastructures to mitigate systemic risks, protect users, and prevent abuse. It requires experience in event-driven pipelines, detection frameworks, and a data-driven mindset, with a preference for experience in Trust and Risk or Fraud domains. Explicit data science or machine learning experience is a plus. | Agent | 7 |
| Software Engineer, Fraud Software Engineer role focused on building and deploying ML-driven systems for fraud detection, prevention, and intervention in a livestream shopping marketplace. Responsibilities include developing intelligent user graphs, training and deploying traditional ML and LLM models, creating scalable data pipelines, real-time inference systems, and human-in-the-loop systems for continuous refinement. The role emphasizes analyzing behavioral and adversarial data to identify emerging fraud trends and evolving systems to combat them. | AgentData | 7 |
| Program Manager, In-house Performance Creative Program Manager to build the operating system for high-velocity creative testing across paid growth, sitting at the center of creative production, paid media strategy, and performance analytics. This role will assess and implement new creative, AI, production, and measurement tools to increase creative testing volume and performance. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager Technical Program Manager to work across Engineering and Product teams to drive high-impact initiatives and help scale operations. This role will focus on programs improving execution, alignment, and velocity across the organization, including product, infrastructure, and AI initiatives. The TPM will define requirements, technical roadmaps, and improve engineering processes. Experience with AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor is required for efficiency gains. | — | 5 |
| Technical Program Manager Technical Program Manager to work across Engineering and Product teams to drive high-impact initiatives and help scale operations. This role will focus on programs improving execution, alignment, and velocity across the organization, including product, infrastructure, and AI initiatives. The TPM will define requirements, technical roadmaps, and improve engineering processes. Experience with AI tools like Claude Code and Cursor is required for efficiency gains. | — | 5 |
| Engineering Manager, Feed Engineering Manager for the Feed team, responsible for building and scaling Whatnot's feeds and recommendation systems, with a focus on using feed visibility to help small sellers and new categories grow. The role involves leading backend engineers, owning system design, and partnering with product and ML teams to deliver discovery experiences. | Agent | 5 |
| Strategic Partnerships Manager This role focuses on managing strategic partnerships with sellers on a livestream shopping platform, aiming to scale their businesses, improve buyer experience, and drive platform innovation. It involves account management, category strategy, and go-to-market execution, requiring collaboration with various internal teams and leveraging data-driven insights. The role also involves using AI tools to enhance efficiency and decision-making. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Customer Experience Data Scientist focused on Customer Experience, driving insights, experimentation, and building data products to improve user experience and business value within a rapidly growing marketplace. | — | 5 |
| Product Counsel (Director) Product Counsel leader to build and lead Whatnot's product legal function. This is a player-coach role where you'll manage a small team while staying deeply hands-on across the legal questions that come with scaling a high-growth marketplace. You'll partner closely with Product, Engineering, Marketing, Policy, and Business Development, advising on product launches, consumer-facing features, commercial deals, privacy, and regulatory risk. You'll build the infrastructure that makes the team scale: playbooks, templates, risk frameworks, and the documentation practices that turn legal from a bottleneck into a force multiplier. The ideal candidate is a product counseling generalist who's genuinely curious, moves fast, and knows how to get to yes. You've built something before, not just maintained it. | — | 5 |
| Manager, Data Science Manager, Data Science to lead a team working on core marketplace problems, owning measurement, experimentation, and analytical strategy across growth, discovery, and ecosystem questions to drive GMV. This is a hands-on leadership role managing and developing data scientists while staying close to the work, shaping methodology, and raising quality bar. The role supports buyer or seller domains and involves driving analytical strategy for product and business investments, supporting work on discovery, personalization, matching, and monetization, and improving data usage through scalable frameworks and self-serve analytics. The team will adopt modern tooling, including AI-enabled workflows. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Data Software Engineer, Data at Whatnot, responsible for the retrieval platform powering next-gen systems. Focuses on defining technical direction, leading development, and ensuring scalability and performance. Integrates data systems, optimizing machine learning, real-time analytics, stream processing, and content understanding. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, CX Software Engineer, CX at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. This role focuses on building a world-class Customer Support platform, including user-facing experiences, scaling internal infrastructure, and designing AI-powered automations to handle customer issues. The engineer will lead solutions end-to-end, translating business problems into technical solutions and driving delivery. | Agent | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Horizontal Ops Software Engineer, Horizontal Ops at Whatnot, focusing on building internal operations tooling and AI-powered automations for customer support and trust & safety workflows. The role involves developing a workflow engine for intelligent, automated resolutions at scale. | Agent | 5 |
| Senior Manager, Data Communications / Trends Expert This role focuses on establishing a data storytelling foundation for Whatnot, using platform insights, AI tooling, and trend analysis to shape culture, earn media coverage, and define the live shopping category. The Senior Manager will own the development of consumer research and trend reports, partner with data and product teams, and serve as the primary spokesperson for insights and trends. | — | 5 |
| Software Engineer, Logistics Platform Software Engineer, Logistics Platform at Whatnot. This role focuses on building and improving backend systems, APIs, and internal platform interfaces for logistics workflows. Responsibilities include data quality, shipment state normalization, observability, and operational debugging. The role emphasizes product-minded platform work with external impact on buyer/seller experience and operational efficiency. The engineer will partner with various teams to solve real-world logistics problems and improve data correctness and timeliness. A thoughtful approach to AI usage in engineering is encouraged. | — | 5 |
| Head of European and UK Policy This role is for a Head of European and UK Policy at Whatnot, a livestream shopping platform. The individual will shape and evolve global policies and frameworks across trust and safety, marketplace integrity, and commerce, with a focus on Europe. Responsibilities include authoring policies, leveraging data for risk identification, applying a European lens to global policy, and resolving escalated policy questions. The role requires strong policy judgment, experience in ambiguous environments, and fluency in modern AI tools like LLMs for policy development and analysis. | — | 5 |
| Data Scientist, Risk & Fraud Data Scientist focused on risk and fraud detection for a livestream shopping platform. The role involves translating data into actionable recommendations, defining KPIs, analyzing existing methods, partnering with ML engineers to develop anti-fraud practices, designing and evaluating experiments, developing causal inference frameworks, building data products, and collaborating cross-functionally to shape fraud strategy. Requires advanced SQL, Python/R, A/B testing, and causal inference experience. | Agent | 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 |
| 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 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 |
| 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 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 |