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Growth Product Manager roles in the United States attract J-1 exchange visitors through the Trainee and Intern program categories, depending on your career stage. Designated sponsor organizations issue your DS-2019 and oversee compliance while your host employer drives the work. Securing sponsorship requires pairing the right sponsor category with a host whose growth function maps to your training objectives.
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🚀 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
We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager, International Growth to lead the strategy and execution of the experiences that power Whatnot’s non-US markets. You will own the international growth roadmap across acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention—building a world-class, standardized buyer and seller experience across geos and scaling a repeatable playbook beyond our lead markets. In this role, you will partner closely with teams across the company to unlock the next wave of growth in our international markets. Your work will help grow international into a multi-billion dollar, double-digit share of company GMV over the coming years. You will report to a Senior Director of Product. We’re remote-first, but this role requires being within commuting distance of one of our office hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, or London.
YOU WILL
- Own the international growth vision and roadmap, defining how we standardize a high-quality product experience across markets while respecting local nuances and regulations.
- Drive systemic unlocks first, then paper cuts: each term, identify a small number of high-leverage opportunities that materially unlock growth or reduce chronic friction across multiple markets, while continuously burning down the backlog of country-critical bugs and UX/localization gaps.
- Champion a “hub-and-spoke” model for international, working with core product teams who own long-term platforms while ensuring international needs are prioritized, unblocked, and shipped on scalable foundations—never as one-off forks.
- Own international growth metrics and country scorecards, including acquisition, activation, retention, monetization, and market health. Use these to guide prioritization and to hold DRIs accountable for outcomes at the country and regional level.
- Design and run experiments across the funnel, partnering with Data Science and UXR to understand user behavior, size opportunities, and validate the impact of new product bets in specific markets.
- Translate regional expertise into scalable products, working closely with regional CatEx/Sales, Ops, and Marketing to understand local behaviors and convert them into productized playbooks that can be rolled out across multiple countries.
- Ensure our product is “global-ready by default”, partnering with Engineering and Design to bake i18n best practices, localization requirements, and regulatory constraints into new features from the start.
YOU
People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.
- 6+ years of product management experience, including substantial time as a Growth PM or similar role (e.g., owning acquisition, activation, engagement, or monetization in a consumer or marketplace product).
- Proven track record driving measurable growth in a high-velocity consumer product or marketplace—owning end-to-end funnels, setting targets, and using experimentation to move core KPIs.
- Experience scaling international (non-US) markets, such as:
+ launching or growing products in multiple countries,
+ adapting product experiences to local behaviors, regulations, or infrastructure, and
+ partnering with regional teams to build repeatable playbooks.
- Strong data and experimentation skills: comfortable defining metrics, digging into country-level analytics and scorecards, designing experiments, and using both quantitative and qualitative insights to inform decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, making sound decisions with imperfect information, and balancing speed, risk, and quality on complex multi-team initiatives.
- Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication, with experience partnering closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, UXR, BizOps, CX/Trust, Logistics, Payments/Tax, and regional go-to-market teams.
- High empathy for international users and stakeholders, with a strong desire to build trustworthy, transparent, and locally resonant experiences for buyers and sellers.
- Experience working as a PM in a marketplace or multi-sided platform is preferred but not required.
BENEFITS
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- 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.
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.
Compensation Range: $200K - $245K
INTRODUCTION
🚀 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
We’re looking for an experienced Product Manager, International Growth to lead the strategy and execution of the experiences that power Whatnot’s non-US markets. You will own the international growth roadmap across acquisition, activation, engagement, and retention—building a world-class, standardized buyer and seller experience across geos and scaling a repeatable playbook beyond our lead markets. In this role, you will partner closely with teams across the company to unlock the next wave of growth in our international markets. Your work will help grow international into a multi-billion dollar, double-digit share of company GMV over the coming years. You will report to a Senior Director of Product. We’re remote-first, but this role requires being within commuting distance of one of our office hubs in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, New York City, or London.
YOU WILL
- Own the international growth vision and roadmap, defining how we standardize a high-quality product experience across markets while respecting local nuances and regulations.
- Drive systemic unlocks first, then paper cuts: each term, identify a small number of high-leverage opportunities that materially unlock growth or reduce chronic friction across multiple markets, while continuously burning down the backlog of country-critical bugs and UX/localization gaps.
- Champion a “hub-and-spoke” model for international, working with core product teams who own long-term platforms while ensuring international needs are prioritized, unblocked, and shipped on scalable foundations—never as one-off forks.
- Own international growth metrics and country scorecards, including acquisition, activation, retention, monetization, and market health. Use these to guide prioritization and to hold DRIs accountable for outcomes at the country and regional level.
- Design and run experiments across the funnel, partnering with Data Science and UXR to understand user behavior, size opportunities, and validate the impact of new product bets in specific markets.
- Translate regional expertise into scalable products, working closely with regional CatEx/Sales, Ops, and Marketing to understand local behaviors and convert them into productized playbooks that can be rolled out across multiple countries.
- Ensure our product is “global-ready by default”, partnering with Engineering and Design to bake i18n best practices, localization requirements, and regulatory constraints into new features from the start.
YOU
People who do well at Whatnot tend to be comfortable figuring things out as they go, biased toward action, and genuinely curious about what they're building. They care more about outcomes than credit and stay close to the product and the people using it.
- 6+ years of product management experience, including substantial time as a Growth PM or similar role (e.g., owning acquisition, activation, engagement, or monetization in a consumer or marketplace product).
- Proven track record driving measurable growth in a high-velocity consumer product or marketplace—owning end-to-end funnels, setting targets, and using experimentation to move core KPIs.
- Experience scaling international (non-US) markets, such as:
+ launching or growing products in multiple countries,
+ adapting product experiences to local behaviors, regulations, or infrastructure, and
+ partnering with regional teams to build repeatable playbooks.
- Strong data and experimentation skills: comfortable defining metrics, digging into country-level analytics and scorecards, designing experiments, and using both quantitative and qualitative insights to inform decisions.
- Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, making sound decisions with imperfect information, and balancing speed, risk, and quality on complex multi-team initiatives.
- Excellent cross-functional leadership and communication, with experience partnering closely with Engineering, Design, Data Science, UXR, BizOps, CX/Trust, Logistics, Payments/Tax, and regional go-to-market teams.
- High empathy for international users and stakeholders, with a strong desire to build trustworthy, transparent, and locally resonant experiences for buyers and sellers.
- Experience working as a PM in a marketplace or multi-sided platform is preferred but not required.
BENEFITS
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- 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.
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.
Compensation Range: $200K - $245K
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Get Access To All JobsTips for Finding J-1 Visa Sponsorship as a Growth Product Manager
Align your training plan with growth functions
Your DS-2019 requires a detailed training plan that maps your daily tasks to measurable learning objectives. Frame your growth PM activities around acquisition, retention, and experimentation rather than general product management to satisfy sponsor review.
Distinguish Intern from Trainee eligibility early
Intern status requires current enrollment in a degree program, while Trainee applies if you've graduated within the past 12 months or have relevant work experience. Misclassifying your status delays DS-2019 issuance and can void your host employer's offer.
Target host employers with dedicated product growth teams
Use Migrate Mate to filter for U.S. employers whose open Growth Product Manager roles align with J-1 Trainee or Intern sponsorship, so you're identifying hosts whose team structure can actually support your training plan requirements.
Verify your host employer's willingness before applying
Many employers posting product roles haven't hosted J-1 exchange visitors before. Confirm early in your process whether the hiring manager understands that a designated sponsor organization, not their HR team, issues your work authorization documents.
Check for the two-year home residency requirement
If your home country has a skills shortage in product and technology disciplines, or if you received government funding, the J-1 two-year home residency requirement may apply. Confirm your status with your designated sponsor before signing an offer letter.
Time your DS-2019 request around the sponsor's processing window
Designated sponsor organizations like Cultural Vistas and CIEE typically need several weeks to review your training plan and issue your DS-2019. Build that window into your start date negotiation so your host employer sets realistic onboarding expectations.
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Find Growth Product Manager JobsGrowth Product Manager J-1 Visa: Frequently Asked Questions
Which J-1 program category fits a Growth Product Manager role?
The Trainee category fits most early-career Growth Product Manager applicants who have completed a relevant degree or have at least one year of professional experience in product, marketing, or analytics. Current students enrolled in a degree program use the Intern category instead. Both require a structured training plan approved by a U.S. Department of State-designated sponsor organization before your host employer can confirm a start date.
Who actually sponsors your J-1 visa in a Growth Product Manager placement?
Your J-1 visa sponsor is a U.S. Department of State-designated organization, such as Cultural Vistas, CIEE, or IIE, not your hiring employer. The designated sponsor issues your DS-2019 form, reviews your training plan, and monitors program compliance. Your host employer, the company where you work, is separate from the sponsor and takes on legal host obligations under the program regulations.
Can a Growth Product Manager role qualify for the J-1 Trainee category if your background is in engineering rather than business?
Yes, engineering backgrounds frequently support J-1 Trainee eligibility for Growth Product Manager roles because growth functions rely heavily on data analysis, A/B testing infrastructure, and technical experimentation. Your training plan must demonstrate that the proposed activities build on your prior field of study or experience. The designated sponsor evaluates that alignment, so framing your technical skills around growth-specific methodologies strengthens your application.
How do you find U.S. host employers open to J-1 exchange visitors for product roles?
Migrate Mate lets you search for Growth Product Manager positions at U.S. employers that align with J-1 sponsorship, filtering out roles where the host is unlikely to accommodate the designated sponsor's training plan requirements. Most standard job boards don't surface J-1 compatibility, so narrowing your search to employers whose hiring history and team structure match the exchange visitor framework saves significant time.
Does the two-year home residency requirement affect Growth Product Manager J-1 participants?
It can. The two-year home residency requirement applies if your home country appears on the State Department's skills list for product and technology disciplines, if your J-1 program was government-funded, or if your host employment is in a field on that list. If the requirement applies, you must return home for two years before changing to most immigrant or nonimmigrant statuses, including H-1B. Your designated sponsor can confirm whether your specific situation triggers it.
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