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Senior Recruiter, G&A

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Manage full-cycle recruitment for People, Finance, and Legal teams at Whatnot. Focus on sourcing diverse candidates and optimizing candidate experience while managing multiple roles simultaneously.
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🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot! 

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.

💻 Role 

We’re looking to hire a Recruiter to manage end-to-end recruiting for our People, Finance and Legal teams! You’ll have the opportunity to: 

  • Own full-cycle recruiting process for various G&A roles at Whatnot.
  • Identify talented candidates. You'll partner with recruiting managers, recruiters and hiring managers to identify a high caliber of candidates and reach out efficiently to potential candidates.
  • Find or create new sources of talent. LinkedIn might be a good tool, but you'll always look for new and unique ways to source candidates.
  • 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.
  • Assist with developing job posts, hiring plans, and rubrics. You'll partner 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.
  • Emphasize diversity and inclusivity. You'll look for traditional and non-traditional methods to increase the likelihood we can bring new perspectives to the team.

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

👋 You 

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 G&A Recruiter you should have 5+ years of G&A/Business recruiting experience in high-growth startups or at fast-paced companies of scale, plus:

  • You have proven experience recruiting across a range of business roles, across multiple levels, including G&A leadership. You enjoy the challenge of finding world-class talent for hard-to-fill roles. 
  • You're comfortable operating as a full-stack recruiter. You're able to manage the entire recruitment process end to end. 
  • You're a sourcer at heart. You enjoy sourcing for your positions and take pride in nurturing and building relationships with passive talent.  
  • You're comfortable with ownership. Whatnot is one of the fastest-growing startups in history, and hiring is key to our success. You should feel comfortable moving uncomfortably fast and being responsible for your work.
  • You provide an incredible candidate experience. You sweat the small stuff but keep the big picture in mind. You know that a job search can be an overwhelming and complicated journey for candidates, so you prioritize providing a more human experience for everyone that interacts with Whatnot during a hiring process.
  • You’re extremely organized and can balance multiple competing priorities.
  • You are data-focused. You measure pipeline health to balance your priorities and set hiring manager expectations.
  • You are a champion for diversity hiring & inclusive interview practices. At Whatnot, we believe hiring and fostering a diverse team is the key to building a successful business.

💰Compensation

$150,000/year to $175,000,/year + benefits + equity.

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

🎁 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 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
    • We expect all employees to actively use the product!
  • 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.

💛 EOE 

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.

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