Product Manager, Logistics

Whatnot · Consumer · San Francisco, CA · Product

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.

What you'd actually do

  1. Ensure that anything can be sold and fulfilled on Whatnot. Identify shipping options that unlock new categories, countries, and seller segments across our global marketplace.
  2. Accomplish best-in-class shipping reliability as measured by on-time scan rates and fulfillment standards by building tools and systems that enable sellers to ship quickly and consistently.
  3. Improve shipping affordability and transparency by designing pricing, bundling, and carrier solutions that are simple, competitive, and easy to understand.
  4. Drive sustainable logistics economics by building scalable infrastructure, data systems, and user experiences that balance buyer experience, seller needs, and business outcomes.
  5. You will partner closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, Operations, and external partners to deliver both user-facing experiences and the underlying platform that supports logistics across Whatnot.

Skills

Required

  • 7+ years of product management experience
  • track record of owning product strategy, roadmap, and execution
  • balancing short and long-term goals
  • Strong product judgment
  • balance buyer experience, seller needs, and business economics
  • Experience building or scaling complex systems that combine user experience with underlying platform or infrastructure
  • A data-driven mindset
  • experience defining metrics, running experiments, and using insights to drive decisions
  • Ability to operate across ambiguity
  • identify high-leverage opportunities
  • drive execution across multiple teams
  • Excellent cross-functional collaboration skills
  • experience partnering closely with Engineering, Design, and Operations

Nice to have

  • Experience with shipping, fulfillment, or multi-sided marketplaces with logistics components
  • Experience in a marketplace, logistics, or systems-heavy environment