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Legal Trust & Risk, Strategy & Operations Lead

United States, San Francisco 100000.00 - 150000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted February 20, 2026
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Job Description

The Legal team at Whatnot protects the platform, enables the business to move fast, and ensures compliance across a rapidly expanding global marketplace. We’re hiring a data-driven Strategy & Operations Lead to serve as the strategic and operational bridge between Legal and our Trust & Risk organization.

Job Responsibility

  • Own the strategy and operations for legal intake, triage, and escalation workflows
  • Build scalable frameworks to identify risk patterns, trends, and root causes of Trust & Risk Legal matters
  • Partner seamlessly with cross-functional with Trust & Risk, CX, and Policy to communicate and drive continuous improvements to processes and policies
  • Design and own the intake, triage, and routing framework for escalations directed to Trust & Risk Legal
  • Resolve complex escalations with a high degree of autonomy
  • Identify and collect relevant data to surface trends, determine root causes, flag policy gaps, and evaluate whether existing guidance is effective
  • Build cross-functional communications and visibility framework that drives prioritization and reduces repeat escalations
  • Own investigation and fact-development workflows for high-risk or novel issues within Trust & Risk Legal including user enforcement actions, regulatory inquiries, subpoenas, and other sensitive matters under attorney direction
  • Produce clear, defensible case memos with timelines, evidence, key unknowns, and recommended actions

Requirements

  • 4+ years of experience in Trust & Safety, Risk Operations, Legal Operations, Compliance, or a strategy/business operations role supporting legal or risk functions
  • Strong analytical abilities and problem-solving skills
  • Experience with SQL and building dashboards is required
  • Exceptional judgment and the ability to distinguish between operational, policy, and legal issues
  • Proven ability to manage intake queues, triage workflows, and optimize operational efficiency in high-volume, fast-paced environments
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • A self-starter who can prioritize in ambiguous situations
  • Strong project management skills
  • A builder’s mindset
  • Comfortable working on a lean team in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment
  • Experience working with or supporting legal teams is a strong plus
  • Familiarity with trust & safety enforcement, regulatory compliance, IP, fraud, or privacy is a plus

Nice to have

  • Experience working with or supporting legal teams
  • Familiarity with trust & safety enforcement, regulatory compliance, IP, fraud, or privacy

What we offer

  • 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
  • Parental Leave
  • 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work

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