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About the Role
Whatnot is seeking a multidisciplinary Designer and Illustrator for the Brand Experience team. This hands-on role requires a high level of taste, craft, and creative range, with the ability to simplify complex concepts into compelling visual metaphors. The ideal candidate is a self-starter, comfortable in fast-paced, ambiguous environments, and passionate about the creative process and collaboration. This role will drive Whatnot's visual identity forward and empower the team to do their best work.
Responsibilities
- Develop visual strategies, art direction, and creative to extend Whatnot’s brand into digital experiences, product launches, events, social, and other high-impact surfaces.
- Collaborate across business verticals with designers, engineers, copywriters, marketers, and creative leads from brief to delivery.
- Move from brief to execution quickly, optimizing scope while maintaining a high bar for craft.
- Maintain and evolve visual strategies through moodboards and sketches to create production-ready assets.
- Provide meticulous feedback in a productive and actionable manner.
- Foster a collaborative and positive environment to motivate the team.
- Manage projects from start to finish, effectively verbalizing concepts.
- Utilize tools like Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, and AI workflows for idea communication and process streamlining.
- Stay informed on current fashion, design trends, pop culture, commerce, creators, and the Whatnot community to foster genuine connections.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in brand, campaign, or creative studio work.
- Portfolio showcasing strong visual thinking and hands-on execution.
- Experience creating work for similar products or brands, in-product experiences, visual identities, large-scale campaigns, social media, and merchandise.
- Exceptional ability to communicate ideas, stories, and narratives through static and animated creative assets.
- High level of taste, strong art direction, strategy, and experience working within or developing visual systems.
- Highly polished illustration and graphic design solutions.
- Proficiency in Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, Figma Weave, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other creative tools.
- Driven with a 'figure it out' mentality; proactive, curious, and passionate about making great creative.
- Meticulous approach to work, knowing when to templatize, self-edit, and push boundaries.
- Experience leading creative work from start to finish, collaborating with cross-functional partners.
- Low ego and high sense of ownership; able to identify new opportunities and push the brand.
- Ability to take and deliver constructive feedback thoughtfully.
- Ability to refine ambiguous briefs, identify the core problem, and create actionable plans.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with incomplete information.
- Self-motivated and eager to learn new skills or tools.
- Well-respected in the design community with strong industry ties.
- Must live within commuting distance of San Francisco, New York, Seattle, or Los Angeles hubs.
- All employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller.
Skills
- 2D design craft
- Art direction
- Illustration
- Graphic design
- Visual strategy
- Creative concept development
- Figma
- Adobe Creative Suite
- AI workflows
- Storytelling
- Trend analysis
Location
- San Francisco
- New York
- Seattle
- Los Angeles
- Remote (co-located team hubs)
Work Type
- Remote
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 7+ years
Benefits
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options (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 (adoption or fertility expenses)
- Retirement: 401k (Traditional and Roth) with employer match up to 4% in the US
- Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work
About the Company
- Whatnot is the largest live shopping platform in North America and Europe, enabling users to buy, sell, and discover items across hundreds of categories.
- The company is building live commerce at an unprecedented scale in the West, shaping a new industry.
- Whatnot operates as a remote co-located team with hubs across the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, Germany, and Australia.
- The company moves fast, stays close to users, and focuses on high-impact work.
- Recognized as one of the fastest-growing marketplaces and named the #1 Best Startup Employer in America by Forbes.
- Whatnot's mission is to enable anyone to turn their passion into a business and bring people together through commerce.
Equal Opportunity
- Whatnot is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We value diversity and 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 diverse skills and experiences improve our work and company culture.