Whatnot is hiring: Product Design Director, Buyer (Seattle) in Seattle

Director of Product Design Buyer Design Team

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This range is provided by Whatnot. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$280,000.00/yr - $320,000.00/yr

Overview

Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. Were redefining ecommerce by creating joyful, seamless experiences that bring people together through commerce. Our remote, colocated team is inspired by innovation and anchored in our values, with hubs in the US, UK, Germany, Ireland, and Poland.

Role

• Lead and scale a highperforming team of product designers across the buyer funnel.
• Define and drive the vision, strategy, and execution for the buyer experience in collaboration with crossfunctional partners.
• Partner with research, data, and product to develop deep customer empathy and inform highimpact design decisions.
• Shape intuitive, elegant systems across discovery, live shopping, and postpurchase experiences.
• Ensure our experiences are accessible, inclusive, and delightfully human.
• Champion design quality and consistency across surfaces while enabling speed and iteration.
• Nurture a strong design culture through mentorship, feedback, and high standards for craft and thinking.
• Represent design in executive conversations and influence companywide priorities.

You

Were looking for a leader with a low ego, growth mindset, and highimpact drive. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of product design experience, at least 3 years leading teams, and a strong portfolio showcasing interaction and visual design skills.

• A playercoach mindsetexcited to mentor, but equally passionate about designing and solving problems handson.
• Proven success designing and scaling customerfacing experiences across a complex funnel (acquisition through retention).
• Deep expertise in interaction design, systems thinking, and usercentered design.
• Strong understanding of search, discovery, personalization, and taxonomy design principles.
• Experience in ecommerce, marketplaces, or live shopping platforms is a major plus.
• A strong collaborator who thrives at the intersection of product, business, and user needs.
• A portfolio that demonstrates thoughtful, elegant solutions to complex problems.

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
• 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)

Equal Opportunity Employer

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.

Seniority Level

Director

Employment Type

Fulltime

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