Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, enabling users to buy, sell, and discover various products. They are seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive high-impact initiatives across their Engineering and Product teams, focusing on improving execution, alignment, and velocity within the organization.
Responsibilities
- 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
Skills
- 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
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- 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
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work \•company leave allowances run concurrently with country leave requirements which take precedence.
Company Overview
Whatnot is a livestream shopping platform for buying and selling products. It was founded in 2019, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://www.whatnot.com.Company H1B Sponsorship
Whatnot has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 6 in 2026, 34 in 2025, 20 in 2024, 18 in 2023, 10 in 2022. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.