Design Recruiter

Whatnot•San Francisco, CA

20d•Hybrid

About The Position

Whatnot is the largest live 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, Germany, Ireland, and Poland, we’re building the future of online marketplaces –together. From fashion, beauty, and electronics to 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. We’re looking to hire a Senior Design Recruiter to manage end-to-end recruiting for our Product Design and Creative teams. You’ll have the opportunity to: Lead hiring for our Design teams. You'll partner closely with 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 design 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 and working on filling 5-10 (or more at times) 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. Emphasize diversity. You'll look for proven traditional and creative methods to bring new points of view to the team and encourage inclusive hiring practices. Team members in this role are required to be within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City or Seattle hub.

Requirements

7+ years of Product Design and/or Creative recruiting with a deep network and experience in high-growth startups or fast-paced companies of scale
Track record of filling Product Design and Creative roles across multiple levels, including leadership.
Comfortable operating as a full-stack recruiter.
Able to manage the entire process of a candidate end to end.
A sourcer at heart.
Enjoy sourcing for your positions and take pride in nurturing and building relationships with passive talent.
Comfortable with ownership.
Feel comfortable moving uncomfortably fast, managing multiple roles, and being accountable for your work.
Provide an incredible candidate experience.
Sweat the small stuff but keep the big picture in mind.
Prioritize providing a more human experience for everyone that interacts with Whatnot during a hiring process.
Extremely organized and can balance multiple competing priorities.
Data-focused.
Measure pipeline health to balance your priorities and set hiring manager expectations.
A champion for diversity hiring & inclusive interview practices.

Responsibilities

Lead hiring for our Design teams.
Partner closely with 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 design talent.
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.
Manage the pipelines for and working on filling 5-10 (or more at times) open roles of varying complexity and seniority.
Assist with developing job posts, hiring plans, and rubrics.
Work with the hiring manager to tighten up job descriptions, screening rubrics, and guide the hiring process along the way.
Iterate on candidate feedback.
Smooth rough edges in the recruiting process by iterating on feedback from candidates or other signals.
Uplevel the recruiting team.
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.
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.
Emphasize diversity.
Look for proven traditional and creative methods to bring new points of view to the team and encourage inclusive hiring practices.

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; 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.