Whatnot
International Recruiter, GTM
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Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot!
Whatnot is the largest live 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 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 and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. 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 an International recruiter based in London to manage end-to-end recruiting across a variety of roles on our European Sales, Marketing, Account Management teams. Whatnot is one of the fastest-growing startups in history, and hiring is key to our success. This is an incredible opportunity to continue to build our team in Europe and continue to shape how we hire in the region.
Day to day, you will:
- Partner closely with local and global hiring managers and business leaders, bringing a consultative approach to influence hiring decisions, shape strategies, and align recruiting priorities with broader business goals.
- Source strong talent. You’ll experiment and partner with hiring managers to reach top candidates and explore creative channels beyond LinkedIn.
- Act as a full-cycle recruiter from sourcing, screening, managing the candidate through interviews, and closing.
- Juggle a variety of roles at once. At any given time you could be managing the pipelines for many open roles of varying complexity and seniority.
- Assist with developing job posts, hiring plans, and rubrics. You'll work 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.
- Uplevel the recruiting team. You'll mentor peers, share best practices, and help build a culture of continuous improvement that raises the bar for recruiting excellence across the organization.
- Build scalable processes. You'll work on improving and standardizing recruiting workflows that can scale with the company’s growth, creating repeatable and effective practices that can be applied across the business.
- Emphasise diversity. You'll look for proven traditional and creative methods to bring new points of view to the team and encourage inclusive hiring practices.
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👋 You
As an International Recruiter for Europe, you should have 2+ years of experience hiring across functions including GTM, Sales, and/or Marketing in high-growth startups or at fast-paced companies of scale, plus:
- You have previously evaluated candidates for a range of business roles, across multiple levels and markets, including GTM and Marketing. You enjoy the challenge of finding world-class talent for hard-to-fill roles.
- You know that a job search can be nerve-racking and you prioritise providing a more human experience for everyone that interacts with Whatnot during a hiring process.
- You're comfortable operating as a full-stack recruiter. You're able to manage the entire process of a candidate 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, managing multiple roles, and being accountable for your work.
- You’re extremely organised 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.
- You have a deep understanding of the EU talent landscape and market dynamics. Speaking an additional European Language is a huge plus.
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🎁 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 on both food and wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- 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.
Please note: Whatnot will only contact you through official @whatnot.com email addresses. If you see an email impersonating a Whatnot recruiter, please disregard and report it as spam.
💛 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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