Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, redefining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment. They are seeking a Technical Program Manager to drive the engineering roadmap and enhance the company's stability and execution model by collaborating with various engineering teams.
Responsibilities:
- Drive the engineering roadmap, strategy and execution of critical functional initiatives
- Define requirements & technical roadmap with engineering, product, and cross functional teams to launch and unlock programs lightning speed
- Clearly communicate roadmap, progress, and insights to key teams and stakeholders
- Do whatever it takes to ensure the engineering team is operating effectively, unblock them and make sure they can move at a rapid pace
- Take ownership of any major blocker to the company’s success
- Drive strategic initiatives across the company as needed
Requirements:
- 5+ years of relevant experience
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical field
- Experience leading complex, multi-disciplinary, and highly visible technical and operational initiatives across the company
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments, identify trade-offs, and make decisions with limited information in high-pressure situations
- Proven ability to develop sound research methodologies and collect, synthesize, analyze, and interpret data
- Experienced in design, and hypothesis driven product development
- Entrepreneurial drive to achieve stretch goals in an innovative fast-paced environment
- Startup experience at a high-growth company
- Experience in the payments domain is a plus