Director, Strategic Finance at whatnot

This role is designed for a high-performing finance leader with 5–8+ years of experience, ideally blending "Big 3" consulting or investment banking with high-gr

Work type: onsite

Location: Los Angeles, CA | New York, NY | San Francisco, CA

Salary: $250,000 – $335,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

This role is designed for a high-performing finance leader with 5–8+ years of experience, ideally blending "Big 3" consulting or investment banking with high-growth startup leadership. You should be a financial modeling expert who doesn't just crunch numbers but translates them into go-to-market strategies. While the title is Director, the role is highly "hands-on," requiring proficiency in SQL and the ability to influence C-suite stakeholders across Sales, Product, and Marketing. The compensation is a major standout, ranging from $250k to $335k plus equity in a top-tier "unicorn" marketplace. Despite being a leadership position, the culture emphasizes a "low ego" approach and a "dogfooding" perk where you are paid to buy and sell on the platform. The role offers a hybrid balance; you must live near the LA, NY, or SF hubs for in-person collaboration while enjoying a robust suite of remote-work and wellness allowances. **You might be a good fit if you:** * Thrive in "ambiguous" environments where you have to build KPIs and frameworks from scratch. * Have deep experience with two-sided marketplaces or e-commerce business models. * Can pivot instantly from writing SQL queries to presenting strategic insights to executives. * Are passionate about creator communities and the future of live-streamed commerce.

Job Description

## 🚀 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. Whether it's trading cards, fashion, electronics, or live plants, our sellers are building real businesses across hundreds of categories. We're building live commerce at a scale that's never been done in the West, and there's no playbook to copy. The people here are shaping how an entirely new industry develops.

As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by our [values](https://www.whatnot.com/careers) and anchored in hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia. We move fast, stay close to our users, and focus on the work that drives the most impact.

We're one of the [fastest growing marketplaces](https://a16z.com/marketplace-100/) and were recently named the [#1 Best Startup Employer in America](http://google.com/search?q=%231+forbes+startup+employer&oq=%231+forbes+startup+employer&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIGCAEQRRg9MgYIAhBFGD0yBggDEEUYQDIGCAQQRRhAMgYIBRBFGEDSAQg1NzM0ajBqMagCALACAA&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8) by Forbes. Check out the latest Whatnot updates on our [news](https://blog.teamwhatnot.com/) and [engineering blogs](https://medium.com/whatnot-engineering) and join us as we enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.

## 💻 Role

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.

• 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.

• 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.

## 👋 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, banking, or Strategic 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

• 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

• 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.

## 💛 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.

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