Strategic Finance Lead at Faire

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. We’re looking for smart, resourceful and passionate people to join us as we power the shop local movement. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About the role

We’re looking for a high-agency candidate to drive strategic and analytical projects that shape how we scale Faire’s portfolio of tools and programs for our retailers and brands. In this role, you’ll own mission-critical initiatives end to end—from strategic planning and analysis to presenting recommendations to Faire’s leadership and partnering cross-functionally with product, engineering, data science, sales, and marketing to execute. This role is central to Faire’s mission of empowering brands and retailers — by streamlining their workflows and maximizing the value they gain from our platform.

We are currently hiring for:

Strategic Finance partner to our Global Ops org, which includes Risk, Customer Support, and Marketplace Operations; this role works in partnership with the Ops leadership team to inform how Faire invests in A.I. and other new capabilities to best-enable the success of our retailers and brands in an efficient and scalable manner

Capital is necessary in every business, but at Faire it serves as a core value proposition to our customers. The Finance & Strategy team ensures we have access to it and are spending it effectively, but also wears several other hats at Faire including strategic growth planning, company-wide performance management, and business analysis. As part of this team, you will help inform how Faire can optimally allocate capital in the form of customer benefits that translates to customer loyalty and high-quality, sustainable growth. This is an ideal role for someone who wants to work in a dynamic, highly collaborative, and data-driven environment and have the opportunity to work closely with a variety of functions.

What you'll do:

Identify opportunities, develop hypotheses and execute in-depth analyses in service of product strategy and execution tied to customer loyalty

Own the forecasting, goal-setting, and tracking of inputs that drive ROI and ultimately inform capital and resource allocation decisions

Lead strategic planning across one or more functional areas of company, partnering with a wide range of organization leaders to position the business for future success

Enable our organization to continue to be highly data-driven as we scale by synthesizing insights, building financial models and developing KPIs for real-time monitoring of performance

Qualifications:

A Bachelor’s degree and [5]+ years of experience in strategic corporate finance, private equity/venture capital, investment banking and/or management consulting

You are analytical and data-driven - you can define KPIs and measure progress/success for your initiatives

You can think across multiple dimensions of a business (sales, product, marketing etc.) and work cross-functionally to deliver results

You are a team player that wants to win while also having fun with teammates along the way

You want to work in a fast-paced environment with constant change

You are resourceful and not afraid to roll up your sleeves

Nice to have:

Knowledge of SQL

Salary Range

New York City & San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $158,500 to $218,000 per year.

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting.

Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is taking part in the founding process.

We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.

We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.

We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.

Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.

Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form)

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Strategic Finance Lead

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