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Risk Strategist
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Whatnot
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 $140,000.00/yr – $210,000.00/yr
Role Risk Strategists at Whatnot specialize in merging data analysis, best‑in‑industry risk and cybersecurity knowledge, and operational hustle to programmatically detect, measure, and thwart bad actors from disrupting our marketplace.
Monitoring: Tracking trust and fraud trends and analyzing root causes.
Frontline investigation: Develop and iterate rules to enforce Whatnot’s policies at scale.
Developing strategies: Creating tools, processes, and strategies to improve bad‑actor detection and mitigation.
Assessing risk: Evaluating new tools and existing processes for risk, and proposing ways to mitigate it.
Managing fraud controls: Collaborating with technology and operations teams to manage trust and fraud controls.
Tracking performance: Monitoring the performance of trust and fraud strategies, tools, and processes.
Identifying opportunities: Looking for opportunities to invest in trust and fraud protection for short and long term.
Supporting new product launches: Analyzing fraud risks for new products and countries, and developing strategies to mitigate those risks before and after launch.
Working closely with the Trust and Risk engineering teams, operations partners, and data scientists to ensure long‑term protections for our buyers and sellers are built and codified.
We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in‑person time for planning, problem‑solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco hubs.
About You
Interest in having a direct impact on Whatnot’s mission.
Responsible for the analysis of fraud or trust trends, developing mitigation strategies, and deploying creative solutions to manage the customer journey across the product.
Assist in developing and optimizing risk mitigation controls within our framework of tools to ensure the business meets or exceeds our trust and risk goals while supporting business growth targets.
Measure and monitor rule performance to statistically quantify risk and opportunity.
Seek and design creative solutions to risk challenges through optimization of existing controls, pursuit of new tools, and expanded use of alternative data.
Endless curiosity and passion to understand our customers and transaction patterns.
Compensation For Full‑Time (Salary) – US‑based applicants: $140,000/year to $210,000/year + benefits + equity. The salary range may include several levels applicable to the position; final salary depends on level, prior experience, skills, and expertise.
Benefits
Flexible Time off Policy and Company‑wide Holidays (including spring and winter breaks)
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 toward childcare
Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
Retirement: 401(k) offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and pension plans internationally
Monthly allowance to dog‑food 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 dog‑fooding 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).
Equal Opportunity Employment Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and 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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Risk Strategist
role at
Whatnot
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 $140,000.00/yr – $210,000.00/yr
Role Risk Strategists at Whatnot specialize in merging data analysis, best‑in‑industry risk and cybersecurity knowledge, and operational hustle to programmatically detect, measure, and thwart bad actors from disrupting our marketplace.
Monitoring: Tracking trust and fraud trends and analyzing root causes.
Frontline investigation: Develop and iterate rules to enforce Whatnot’s policies at scale.
Developing strategies: Creating tools, processes, and strategies to improve bad‑actor detection and mitigation.
Assessing risk: Evaluating new tools and existing processes for risk, and proposing ways to mitigate it.
Managing fraud controls: Collaborating with technology and operations teams to manage trust and fraud controls.
Tracking performance: Monitoring the performance of trust and fraud strategies, tools, and processes.
Identifying opportunities: Looking for opportunities to invest in trust and fraud protection for short and long term.
Supporting new product launches: Analyzing fraud risks for new products and countries, and developing strategies to mitigate those risks before and after launch.
Working closely with the Trust and Risk engineering teams, operations partners, and data scientists to ensure long‑term protections for our buyers and sellers are built and codified.
We offer flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs, and we value in‑person time for planning, problem‑solving, and connection. Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our New York, Seattle, Los Angeles, and San Francisco hubs.
About You
Interest in having a direct impact on Whatnot’s mission.
Responsible for the analysis of fraud or trust trends, developing mitigation strategies, and deploying creative solutions to manage the customer journey across the product.
Assist in developing and optimizing risk mitigation controls within our framework of tools to ensure the business meets or exceeds our trust and risk goals while supporting business growth targets.
Measure and monitor rule performance to statistically quantify risk and opportunity.
Seek and design creative solutions to risk challenges through optimization of existing controls, pursuit of new tools, and expanded use of alternative data.
Endless curiosity and passion to understand our customers and transaction patterns.
Compensation For Full‑Time (Salary) – US‑based applicants: $140,000/year to $210,000/year + benefits + equity. The salary range may include several levels applicable to the position; final salary depends on level, prior experience, skills, and expertise.
Benefits
Flexible Time off Policy and Company‑wide Holidays (including spring and winter breaks)
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 toward childcare
Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
Retirement: 401(k) offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and pension plans internationally
Monthly allowance to dog‑food 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 dog‑fooding 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).
Equal Opportunity Employment Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We value diversity and 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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