About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future of retail is local. There are over 1M independent retailers in the U.S. and Canada doing more than twice the revenue of Walmart and Amazon combined. At Faire, we're using the power of technology and data to connect a growing community of over 150,000 brands and independent retailers around the world. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products to sell in their stores. By empowering entrepreneurs with the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses can compete with big box and e-commerce giants. 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 this role

As a Director or Senior Manager (depending on experience) within the Business Operations team, you will tackle a variety of strategic, analytical, and operational projects to drive growth for our business.  You’ll have the chance to lead critical projects end-to-end covering strategic planning and analysis, making strategic recommendations, and working cross-functionally with Product, Sales, Operations, Marketing, and Finance, etc. on implementation.

In this role, you'll operate as a player-coach developing and leading a team of high-performing individuals while also executing directly on high-impact analytical, strategic and operational initiatives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and data conscious environment. 

What you'll do

• In this role, you'll operate as a player-coach developing and managing a team of high-performing individuals while also executing directly on high-impact analytical, strategic and operational initiatives 
• Develop, refine, and execute on go-to-market and expansion strategies partnering with GMs, Sales, Product, Finance, Operations, Marketing, etc.  
• Structure complex and ambiguous strategic problems
• Identify issues, develop hypotheses, and execute in-depth analyses to translate data into meaningful insights and make recommendations to Faire’s leadership team based on your findings
• Enable our organization to continue to be highly data-driven as we scale by performing ad hoc analyses, conducting research, and building reports and KPI dashboards for real-time monitoring of performance
• Develop effective and scalable operational processes and fill operational gaps

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of experience with a blend of business operations and consulting, investment banking, or private equity 
• Previous experience hiring and managing people
• You are highly analytical and data-driven -- you can execute on complex analyses, define critical metrics, size opportunity areas, and measure and report on performance across the business
• You can think across multiple dimensions of a business (sales, product, marketing etc.) and work cross-functionally to deliver results
• Ability to flex between analytical, strategic and operational aspects of the job
• Ability to both lead and execute
• Resourceful and happy to roll up your sleeves to get any job done
• You want to work in a fast-paced environment with constant change
• Knowledge of SQL strongly preferred

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 an owner of the business and 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 over 100,000 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 Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, London and Sao Paulo. 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.