Whatnot(Senior) Manager, Strategic Finance
The Strategic Finance Manager will support all teams in achieving their goals by defining short and long-term goals and owning the financial health across categories, countries, and products.
🚀 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. We’re re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we’re inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.
From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.
And we’re just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we’re looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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.
🏎 About the Strategic Finance team
The Strategic Finance group supports all teams at Whatnot in achieving their goals. This team is responsible for helping define short and long-term goals across the business (GMV, Revenue, Pricing, Margin) and owning the financial health across our categories, countries, and products. The Strategic Finance team sits alongside our BizOps team and works directly with the CEO on major initiatives across the business.
💻 Role
1) Strong Business Partnership
- Serve as a role model for Whatnot’s Cultural Principles.
- Collaborate with Sales, CatEx, Ops, EPD, and Marketing teams to analyze performance and optimize investments.
- Work with stakeholders to uncover high-impact opportunities through quantitative analysis, industry benchmarks, and competitive research.
2) Drive Financial Insights & Analytics
- Develop actionable recommendations through hands-on analytics, financial modeling, and strategic insights.
- Synthesize company-wide data into a clear, contextualized view that informs high-impact decisions.
- Contribute to business planning and go-to-market strategy by identifying key growth and efficiency drivers.
3) Operational Rigor & Performance Management
- Enhance operational rigor by defining KPIs, dashboards, and OKRs.
- Maintain and refine business models to support forecasting and accountability.
- Lead strategic and operational initiatives that drive business growth and scalability.
Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our New York City, Los Angeles, or San Francisco hubs.
👋 You
Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that low ego, a growth mindset, and leaning into action and high impact goes a long way here.
As the next member of our BizOps and Strategic Finance family, you should have 5-8 years of overall professional experience with a mix of professional services and start-up experience, plus:
- Past experience in consulting or finance. Experience working with Sales, Operations, Product, and Marketing teams a plus
- Strong strategic sense with the ability to balance data driven insights and business instincts
- Superb financial modeling skills and extensive experience conducting quantitative and qualitative financial analysis. Excellent data skills including strength with SQL is a plus
- Comfort working exceptionally fast in an ambiguous work environment
- 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
- Excellent executive communication skills. You can show and explain insights to a variety of audience types
🙏 Nice to Have
- Experience working on a marketplace or a two-sided platform
- Passion for creator communities, existing product categories on Whatnot, and/or new verticals that are uniquely suited for live e-commerce
- Experience buying and selling in online marketplaces communities
💰Compensation
$190,000/year to $245,000/year + benefits + equity
The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.
🎁 Benefits
- Flexible Time 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 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
- 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.
💛 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.