Director, Strategic Finance

🚀 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 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 and were recently named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes. 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.

💻 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.

Drive Financial Insights & Analytics

• 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.

Operational Rigor & Performance Management

• 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.

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 Los Angeles, San Francisco, or New York City hubs.

👋 You

People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.

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

🙏 Nice to Have

• 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

🎁 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.

💛 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.