Risk Strategist at whatnot

This role is ideal for a mid-level professional with a background in fraud prevention, trust and safety, or risk analytics. You should be comfortable moving bet

Work type: onsite

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

Salary: $140,000 – $210,000/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

This role is ideal for a mid-level professional with a background in fraud prevention, trust and safety, or risk analytics. You should be comfortable moving between high-level data strategy and hands-on investigation, with enough technical savvy to work alongside engineering teams to build automated detection tools. If you enjoy the "cat and mouse" game of thwarting bad actors in a fast-paced marketplace, this is a prime opportunity. The compensation is highly competitive ($140k–$210k plus equity), and the benefits package is standout, featuring a 4% 401k match, 16 weeks of parental leave, and a unique "dogfooding" budget to shop on the platform. While the team is "remote co-located," you must live within commuting distance of their hubs in SF, LA, NYC, or Seattle for in-person collaboration. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have experience writing and iterating on rules/logic to detect fraud at scale. * Are data-driven and can statistically quantify the impact of risk vs. business growth. * Thrive in a high-growth startup environment where you need to build processes from scratch. * Are based in (or willing to relocate to) one of the four required US metro hubs.

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

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 the 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 the 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.

• Work 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.

## 👋 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, but here are a few criteria we're looking for in this role:

• Interest in having a direct impact on Whatnot’s mission

• Responsible for the analysis of fraud or trust trends, the development of mitigation strategies and deployment of creative solutions to effectively manage the customer journey across the product

• Assist in the development and optimization of 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 for the purpose of statistically quantifying 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 the passion to understand our customers and the transaction pattern

For Full-Time (Salary)US based applicants:$140,000/year to $210,000/year + benefits + equity.

The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills, and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

## 🎁 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 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.

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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