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Product Operations (Senior) Manager

Whatnotβ€’New York, NY
FullTimeUSD 160,000 – 210,000 per yearbusiness-operationsoperationsprocess-improvement+3 more
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Product Operations (Senior) Manager

Whatnot

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Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot

  • Partner with Product Managers to translate strategy into actionable programs and roadmaps.
  • Define, build, and maintain operational frameworks, processes, tools, and dashboards that enable the product organization to operate at scale.
  • Own the end-to-end lifecycle of product operations: from planning and prioritization, through launch, post-launch performance tracking and iteration.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally (Engineering, Design, Data, Category Expansion, CX, Ops, etc) to ensure alignment, clear communication and delivery of product initiatives.
  • Develop and monitor key product health and performance metrics; surface insights and recommend operational improvements and optimizations.
  • Facilitate product launches including readiness (tools, training, communications), rollout strategy, stakeholder coordination, and risk management.
  • Manage and maintain the product tooling stack (e.g., road-mapping tools, feedback/voice-of-customer tools, experimentation/test frameworks, analytics) and ensure teams are well trained and aligned on how to use them.
  • Drive operational improvements: identify inefficiencies, propose and implement process improvements, normalize best practices across teams.
  • Serve as a central node for product ops communication: build and maintain shared documentation, playbooks, runbooks, communication calendars, steering forums, etc.
  • Consider global or multi-market contexts to ensure local/region-specific needs (regulation, localization, language, market operations) are represented in the product operations plan.
  • Bachelor's degree in Business, Economics, or related field
  • Motivation to take on new opportunities and challenges
  • Ability to move remarkably fast with little structure, guidance
  • Curiosity to learn about different parts of the business and how to pull certain levers to grow faster
  • Ability to operate independently and go deep on projects while also building key cross collaborative relationships across the company
  • Demonstrated ability to work and influence cross-functionally. You are proactive, great at communicating with different audiences and can bring stakeholders on-board. You seek out and have a track record for driving change and impact in a fluid, unstructured working environment
  • Demonstrated ability to solve ambiguous problems using data and process improvement

Nice to Have

  • Experience working on a marketplace or a two-sided platform
  • Experience or passion for buying and selling in online marketplaces communities
  • MBA
  • SQL & Dashboard experience
  • Payments or Product Discovery expertise

Benefits

  • Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
  • 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
  • All Whatnauts are expected to develop a deep understanding of our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
  • 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.

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