Senior Recruiter, APAC

Whatnot

Recruiter managing end-to-end hiring for Business and Technical roles at Whatnot. Seeking top talent to build founding teams in APAC, focusing on diverse hiring practices.

Posted 4/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇦🇺 AustraliaSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Partner closely with hiring managers and business leaders, bringing a consultative approach to influence hiring decisions, shape strategies, and align recruiting priorities with broader business goals.
Source strong talent. You’ll experiment and partner with hiring managers to reach top candidates and explore creative channels beyond LinkedIn.
Act as a full-cycle recruiter from sourcing, screening, managing the candidate through interviews, and closing.
Juggle a variety of roles at once. At any given time you could be managing the pipelines for many open roles of varying complexity and seniority.
Assist with developing job posts, hiring plans, and rubrics. You'll work with the hiring manager to tighten up job descriptions, screening rubrics, and guide the hiring process along the way.
Iterate on candidate feedback. You'll smooth rough edges in the recruiting process by iterating on feedback from candidates or other signals.
Uplevel the recruiting team. You'll mentor peers, share best practices, and help build a culture of continuous improvement that raises the bar for recruiting excellence across the organization.
Build scalable processes. You'll work on improving and standardizing recruiting workflows that can scale with the company’s growth, creating repeatable and effective practices that can be applied across the business.
Emphasize diversity. You'll look for proven traditional and creative methods to bring new points of view to the team and encourage inclusive hiring practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

You have experience hiring for both Business and Technical roles across multiple levels, including leadership. You enjoy the challenge of finding world-class talent for hard-to-fill roles.
You understand what it takes to build a team from the beginning - your attention to detail and candidate experience is paramount for success. You sweat the small stuff but keep the big picture in mind. You know that a job search can be nerve-racking and you prioritize providing a more human experience for everyone that interacts with Whatnot during a hiring process.
You're comfortable operating as a full-stack recruiter. You're able to manage the entire process of a candidate end to end.
You're a sourcer at heart. You enjoy sourcing for your positions and take pride in nurturing and building relationships with passive talent.
You're comfortable with ownership. You should feel comfortable moving uncomfortably fast, managing multiple roles, and being accountable for your work.
You’re extremely organized and can balance multiple competing priorities.
You are data-focused. You measure pipeline health to balance your priorities and set hiring manager expectations.
You are a champion for diversity hiring & inclusive interview practices. At Whatnot, we believe hiring and fostering a diverse team is the key to building a successful business.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible Time off Policy and Company-wide Holidays (including a spring and winter break)
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 our product. We're passionate about building the best user experience, and all employees are expected to use Whatnot as both a buyer and a seller as part of their job (our dogfooding budget makes this fun and easy!).
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.

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Hard Skills & Tools

full-cycle recruitingsourcingscreeningcandidate managementjob posting developmenthiring plansinterview processespipeline managementdata analysisrecruiting workflows

Soft Skills

consultative approachinfluenceattention to detailcandidate experiencerelationship buildingownershiporganizational skillsaccountabilitycreativitymentoring