
Product Operations (Senior) Manager
FullTimeUSD 160,000 β 210,000 per yearbusiness-operationsoperationsprocess-improvementproject-managementfull-timeon-site

Product Operations (Senior) Manager

Product Operations (Senior) Manager
Whatnot
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.




