Product Designer, Discovery

Whatnot is looking for a Senior Product Designer to join the Buyer Discovery pod in Discovery, helping shape buyer-facing experiences across mobile and web. The role focuses on how people find what they want and come back again, with particular emphasis on Ads and Notifications, while working to keep discovery experiences relevant to buyers and valuable to sellers.

At Whatnot, Discovery plays a central role in a complex matching challenge: connecting the right buyers with the right content at the right moment in ways that feel trustworthy, exciting, and well-timed. As Discovery expands beyond the feed into adjacent surfaces, you’ll contribute to experiences that support re-engagement and deeper interactions, including notification-driven discovery and ad experiences that help sellers grow.

What you’ll do

• Design thoughtful, intuitive user experiences across buyer discovery surfaces on mobile and web
• Contribute to the Messaging Platform that helps bring buyers back with relevant, engaging content
• Help shape Ad Experiences within discovery surfaces, balancing buyer relevance, seller value, and overall ecosystem health
• Create flows, mocks, prototypes, and polished UI that clearly communicate design intent
• Work closely with product, engineering, data, and design peers to explore ideas, test hypotheses, and improve the user experience
• Participate in critiques and feedback loops, iterating quickly based on learnings
• Focus on detail while staying aligned to broader user and business goals

What you bring

• 5+ years of experience designing digital products
• Strong visual and interaction design fundamentals
• A portfolio demonstrating craft, clear thinking, and care for the end-to-end user experience
• Curiosity about how design supports both user needs and business outcomes
• Excitement to work on consumer-facing product experiences with high visibility and frequent iteration
• Comfort collaborating with product managers, engineers, and other designers
• Willingness to learn quickly, ask good questions, and incorporate feedback
• Strong communication skills in both verbal and written form
• High attention to detail and a desire to keep refining until the work feels right

Nice to have

• Experience designing consumer products, marketplaces, feeds, messaging, or notification experiences
• Interest in personalization, discovery systems, recommendations, or growth-oriented product work
• Excitement for live commerce, collecting, or online communities

Location and salary

• Location: Seattle, WA (hybrid)
• Salary range: USD 153,000 - 235,000 per year

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 the product and use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job
• 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)

Equal Opportunity

Whatnot is an Equal Opportunity Employer and values diversity. They do not discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics under local law, and they encourage, support, and respect different skills and experiences across their workforce.