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Whatnot: Buy, Sell, Go Live
Technical Program Manager
Location
California
Posted
157 days ago
Salary
$190K - $250K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Technical Program Manager
Whatnot
• Drive the engineering roadmap, strategy, and execution of critical cross-functional initiatives • Define requirements and technical roadmap with engineering, product, and cross-functional teams to launch programs at lightning speed • Design and improve engineering processes, planning rhythms, and execution frameworks • Clearly communicate roadmap, progress, and insights to key teams and stakeholders • Do whatever it takes to ensure engineering teams are operating effectively — unblock them and keep them moving at a rapid pace • Take ownership of any major blocker to the company's success • Drive strategic initiatives across the company as needed
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical and operational initiatives across an organization
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, identify system and design tradeoffs, and make decisions with limited information in high-pressure situations
- Demonstrated hands-on fluency with AI tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) to reduce manual overhead, automate program workflows, and drive measurable efficiency gains
- Proven ability to collect, synthesize, and interpret data to inform decisions and drive clarity
- Experience with hypothesis-driven product and engineering development
- Entrepreneurial drive to achieve stretch goals in an innovative, fast-paced environment.
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
- 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 dogfooding 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.
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