As an early member of the Marketing team at Faire, you will have the opportunity to build and optimize our SEO capability that will drive incremental growth for the company by increasing the company’s search engine results rankings across verticals within both the Retailer and Maker sides of our marketplace. 

As SEO Lead You Will:

• Create a robust search engine optimization strategy for Faire, including a roadmap of initiatives to drive growth in marketplace GMV
• Collaborate with technical teams to drive implementation of the product roadmap that will optimize for ROI without sacrificing other needs of the business on the same surface area
• Audit and analyze Faire SEO performance, identify issues, find root-causes, and experiment with solutions to improve performance at scale. 
• Define key success metrics and measurement/reporting systems for SEO; communicate SEO performance and initiative status to stakeholders in regular business reviews
• Stay on top of key trends and best practices in search engine algorithms, competitive landscape and the industry to develop winning strategies
• Manage critical cross-functional relationships with developers, product managers, performance marketers, designers, and other teams to ensure alignment

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of direct technical SEO experience or have relevant work experience (product, engineering, analytics, or business operations) at a high-growth tech startup
• You’re a skilled, results-oriented project manager, and have a demonstrated ability to prioritize tasks and manage deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• You’re an extraordinarily fast learner. You have the natural curiosity and intellectual horsepower to deeply understand new topics and pick up new skills in a very short time.
• You are highly analytical, proficient with SQL, and have a deep knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript.
• You have a BA/BS in computer science, economics, mathematics or other quantitative disciplines.
• Love Faire’s business values - care about local retail and are excited about helping makers and retailers achieve success

Please note before submitting an application: as a company, we take hiring very seriously. Interviewing with Faire may include video and phone interviews, test projects, and/or on-site interviews.

About Faire

Faire is an innovative online marketplace that uses machine learning to match local retailers with the makers of products that uniquely fit their stores. We are using the power of technology to connect makers and boutiques from all over the world, building a thriving community of over 60,000 small business owners.

Our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling. It’s a way of life that offers people a level of autonomy and fulfillment that’s become difficult to find elsewhere in our economy. Most of our customers have left behind jobs they hated to take a chance on themselves. We want to make sure their boldness and self-belief gets rewarded.

This mission also extends to the way we are building the company. Every member of our team is an owner of the business and taking part in the founding process.

Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.