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Risk Strategist

Whatnot
San Francisco, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 2/22/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 5/18/2025

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. We're re-defining e-commerce by blending community, shopping, and entertainment into a community just for you. As a remote co-located team, we're inspired by innovation and anchored in our values. With hubs in the US, UK, Ireland, Poland, and Germany, we're building the future of online marketplaces-together.

From fashion, beauty, and electronics to rare collectibles like trading cards, comic books, and even live plants, our live auctions have something for everyone.

And we're just getting started! As one of the fastest growing marketplaces, we're looking for bold, forward-thinking problem solvers across all functional areas. 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

  • Monitoring : Tracking fraud trends and analyzing the root causes of fraud.
  • Developing strategies : Creating tools, processes, and strategies to improve fraud detection.
  • Assessing risk : Evaluating new tools and existing processes for fraud risk, and proposing ways to mitigate it.
  • Managing fraud controls : Collaborating with technology and fraud operations teams to manage fraud controls.
  • Tracking performance : Monitoring the performance of fraud strategies, tools, and processes.
  • Identifying opportunities : Looking for opportunities to invest in fraud protection for the short and long term.
  • Supporting new product launches : Analyzing fraud risks for new products and countries, and developing strategies to mitigate those risks before and after launch.
  • Work closely with the Risk, Fraud, Disputes and Data Analytics team.
  • Reporting to the CISO in our CyberSecurity and Risk Prevention group

About You

Curious about who thrives at Whatnot? We've found that embodying a low ego, growth mindset, and high-impact drive goes a long way here.

As our next Risk Strategist you should have :

  • 6 years of experience supporting anti-fraud, risk, trust & safety, or integrity problems.
  • Responsible for the analysis of fraud trends, the development of mitigation strategies and deployment of creative solutions to effectively manage the customer journey across the product
  • Assists in the development and optimization of fraud mitigation controls within our framework of tools to ensure the business meets or exceeds our trust and risk goals while supporting business growth targets
  • Measure and monitor fraud performance for the purpose of statistically quantifying risk and opportunity
  • Seeks and designs creative solutions to risk challenges through optimization of existing controls, pursuit of new tools and expanded use of alternative data
  • Expert in using SQL for data analysis, reporting, and dashboarding
  • Interest in having a direct impact on Whatnot's mission
  • Endless curiosity and the passion to understand our customers and the transaction pattern
  • Compensation

    The salary range may be inclusive of several levels that would be applicable to the position. Final salary will be based on a number of factors including, level, relevant prior experience, skills and expertise. This range is only inclusive of base salary, not benefits (more details below) or equity.

    Benefits

  • 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 on both food and 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
  • 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.
  • 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.

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