Sales Manager (German-speaking)

🚀 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. 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

Reporting to the Head of Categories and Expansion (Europe), our first German-speaking Sales Manager will be responsible for capitalising on Whatnot’s existing growth and building upon its foundation. Specific responsibilities include:

• Building and leading an established and growing International sales team as a strategic executive, driving growth

• Serving and effectively working closely alongside the European leadership team to lead and conduct day-to-day business

• Own and execute a sales strategy while working closely with key peers across Marketing, Product, Finance, and Operations, to drive a holistic revenue function for sellers of all sizes across our core categories

• Build a strong sales engine; improve sales operations and utilise predictable, repeatable sales roadmaps, and effectively translate targets into specific actions for all levels of sales management

• Drive accountability and key growth outcomes as it relates to the full sales life cycle

• Harness data to drive and proactively modify a go-to-market playbook to implement accountability in forecasts and determine bookings and activities required to generate pipeline and velocity to achieve results

• Maintain a deep understanding of customer use cases and product capabilities across the B2B and B2C motions to understand and solve customer business problems

• Driving operational excellence and accountability to achieve results. Leveraging data, reporting, OKRs, and other best practices to ensure alignment at all levels.

• Being a strong developer of talent; inspiring, a true player-coach and a mentor

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 London, UK or Berlin, Germany hubs.

💛 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.