Category Manager, Australia

🚀 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. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our values https://www.whatnot.com/careers and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the fastest growing marketplaces https://a16z.com/marketplace-100/ and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America http://google.com/search?q=%231+forbes+startup+employer&oq=%231+forbes+startup+employer&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhBFGD0yBggDEEUYQDIGCAQQRRhAMgYIBRBFGEDSAQg1NzM0ajBqMagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our news https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/ and engineering blogs https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.


💻 ROLE

As a founding team member in Australia, you will play a pivotal role in shaping Whatnot's regional presence, working alongside the GM, Australia.

Launch your country

- Launch and own a category in Australia

- Strategize the best ways to scale your efforts to make our first category successful

- Partner with GM, Australia on determining which category to launch next

Create community-defining moments

- Build relationships with influencers, planning and executing activations to bring their audiences onto Whatnot

- Organize and execute on-app and in person events connected to the most exciting products, moments, and fandoms related to your category

Build our seller community

- Develop a robust pipeline of sellers, including resellers, influencers, and shops

- Identify and bring on board high-potential sellers managing ongoing relationships and day-to-day communications

- Advise sellers on ways to grow their businesses on Whatnot. Create the next generation of top sellers in Australia

- Stay close to sellers and buyers in the ecosystem to understand user needs and provide the product team with key user insights and problems to solve.

Use data and strategic thinking to propel your category forward

- Analyze and leverage data to develop actionable strategies, measure impact, and drive growth in your category and across Australia

- Be able to jump in, ramp up quickly, and independently drive strategic projects both in your own category and across partnerships when needed.


👋 YOU

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