Whatnot is the largest livestream shopping platform in North America and Europe, focused on enabling sellers to build businesses across various categories. The Category Marketing Manager will drive hyper-growth by developing marketing plans and executing campaigns to generate demand and support sellers' success across priority categories.
Responsibilities:
- Own buyer acquisition across a priority category, devising campaigns and events that generate buzz and grow demand for your category
- Own the end-to-end planning and execution of on-platform events, product releases and other community moments across multiple channels
- Manage a portfolio of influencers, including being the DRI for the relationship, content ideation, execution, and reporting
- Partner with other marketers, such as social or paid creative to develop plans that support tentpole campaigns for your category, along with providing them category insights on an on-going basis
- Measure and iterate on the effectiveness of category marketing initiatives
Requirements:
- 4+ years of marketing experience in a fast paced environment
- Experience at a high-growth startup, marketplace or creator-focused platform is a plus
- Versatile marketer who can flex across strategy and execution, solve problems quickly, and own initiatives across multiple channels
- Strong project management skills and know how to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives to deliver high impact outcomes
- Data driven, have experience tracking KPIs and monitoring success for marketing programs
- Scrappy and flexible enough to work in a fast-paced startup environment with limited guidance, and are comfortable pivoting quickly as needed
- Experience with graphic design and video editing tools (e.g. Creative Suite, Figma)
- Experience working with data analytics and AI tools, such as SQL, Hex, or Sigma
- Passion for creator communities and/or Whatnot categories (e.g. vintage clothing, collectibles)
- Experience buying and selling in online marketplaces