Recruiter, Early Talent (University + New Grad)

🚀 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 Recruiter on our Early Talent team, you’ll partner with teams across the business to build strategic recruitment processes, develop our brand, and cultivate long-term relationships with early talent around the world.

- Partner with hiring managers across Engineering to build targeted hiring strategies and attract top early career talent.

- Support end-to-end recruitment activities—leading interviews, facilitating offers, and overseeing intern programs.

- Act as a Whatnot brand ambassador at university, campus, and early career events, travel required at campus peak times

- Iterate on candidate feedback. You'll smooth rough edges in the early talent recruiting process by iterating on feedback from candidates or other signals.

- Build long-term relationships with high-potential candidates by understanding their motivations and helping them see the potential of starting their career at Whatnot.

- Juggle a variety of openings at once. At any given time you could be managing the pipelines for and working on filling 10-20 (or more at times) open roles.

- Emphasize diversity. You'll look for proven traditional and creative methods to bring new points of view to the team and encourage inclusive hiring practices.

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


👋 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 Recruiter, Early Talent, you should have at least 3+ years of experience with