Marketing Manager, Merchandising

🚀 Join the Future of Commerce with Whatnot! Whatnot is the largest live 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 As our Marketing Manager, Digital Events, you’ll bring high-impact, app-wide events to life across Whatnot. You’ll own the day-to-day execution that turns event ideas into buyer engagement, seller participation, and measurable platform growth. This role sits at the center of global marketing, creative, product, and sales & account teams, so you’ll need to move quickly, communicate clearly, and keep details from slipping. You’ll help build the operating rhythm for digital events at Whatnot: setting timelines, coordinating assets, supporting seller onboarding, driving promotional execution, troubleshooting in real time, and using post-event insights to make the next event sharper. In this role, you will: Drive buyer engagement and seller participation for app-wide events by owning event timelines, asset coordination, in-app merchandising, email builds and programming details. Improve the quality and consistency of digital event execution by building clear operating plans, tracking dependencies, and keeping cross-functional partners accountable to deadlines. Help sellers and creators show up successfully in key events by supporting onboarding, programming guidance, communication, and expectation-setting. Support event promotion across channels by coordinating with marketing, creative, category, and seller teams to make sure campaigns are clear, timely, and compelling. Raise the bar on future events by building post-event recaps, surfacing performance trends, and turning learnings into sharper playbooks. 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, Seattle, San Francisco, or New York hub. 👋 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. Whatnot moves fast, and this role is for someone who gets energy from making the work happen, not waiting for a perfect plan. As our next Marketing Manager, Digital Events, you should have 2+ years of experience in marketing, events, operations, creator programs, or a related field, ideally in a fast-paced environment, plus: Strong event or campaign execution skills. You can manage timelines, owners, assets, promotion, and launch details without losing track of the small things. A bias toward action. You’re comfortable making progress with incomplete information, cutting through ambiguity, and adjusting quickly when priorities change. Clear cross-functional communication. You can drive alignment and follow-through across marketing, creative, category, product, and seller-facing teams. Strong ownership. When something is messy or at risk, you don’t wait for someone else to fix