Product Designer Job at Whatnot in Los Angeles

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This range is provided by Whatnot. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range $178,000.00 / yr - $200,000.00 / yr

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. 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, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we’re building the future of online marketplaces—together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare 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.

Role

We’re looking for a strong Product Designer to join our growing team, a designer who’s passionate about solving complex problems, designing scalable systems, and building thoughtful experiences that balance user needs with business priorities. You’ll lead the design of end-to-end workflows across high-impact surfaces, whether focused on user-facing features, internal tools, or core platform systems.

In this role, you’ll be instrumental in shaping the future of our product by creating experiences that are clear, efficient, and user-centric, all while collaborating deeply with designers, product managers, engineers, data scientists, operations, and other cross-functional partners.This could include anything from designing onboarding experiences or discovery flows to crafting educational content, user review systems, or real-time interactions during live events.

Design intuitive, end-to-end product experiences across both user-facing and internal tools.

Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate complex problems and workflows into intuitive product experiences.

Create wireframes, prototypes, and final visuals that bring clarity to ambiguous problems.

Contribute to the broader design system while advocating for accessibility and inclusive user experiences.

Use data, research, and feedback to iterate on existing features and identify areas for improvement.

Help foster a strong design culture by sharing knowledge, mentoring peers, and improving team processes.

You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We’ve found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.

As our next Product Designer, you should have 4+ years of experience in product design, plus :

Experience designing digital products, ideally including work on ecommerce or marketplace products.

Strong interaction and systems thinking—you can untangle complex flows and design for edge cases

Strong Portfolio that demonstrates your experience.

Expertise in design and prototyping tools (e.g. Figma, Protopie, Framer, etc.).

Deep understanding of user experience design principles and methodologies, including user research, wireframing, prototyping, and usability testing.

Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams.

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.

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.

Compensation Range : $178K - $200K

Seniority level Seniority level Mid-Senior level

Employment type Employment type Full-time

Job function Job function Design, Art / Creative, and Information Technology

Industries Technology, Information and Internet

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