Strategy & Operations Senior Lead

Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. 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 businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.

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.

We're looking for a strategic, analytical leader to drive the growth and performance of new products on Faire. Ensuring retailers have access to the freshest, most relevant products is critical to building a thriving marketplace, and this role will help shape how we measure and unlock that opportunity.

In this role, you'll own the forecasting, business intelligence, and go-to-market strategy for New Product GMV and Out of Stocks, translating complex marketplace dynamics into actionable insights and strategic priorities. You'll develop a deep understanding of business performance and partner closely with Revenue, Product and Data Science teams to develop and execute needle moving go-to-market strategies that drive product availability and growth.

This is an ideal role for someone who wants to work as a high-impact individual contributor in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and data-driven environment. This is a high-visibility role where you'll regularly present strategic insights and recommendations to Faire's leadership team, and your work will directly drive positive impact for Faire and our customers.

• Own the most important metrics for our business by having deep intuition on how they are trending and surfacing the most salient strategic insights to drive them
• Break down complex and ambiguous strategic problems, identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, execute in-depth analyses and make recommendations to Faire’s leadership team
• Develop, refine, and execute on go-to-market strategies
• Lead large cross-functional strategic initiatives that move company metrics in partnership with Product, Sales, Systems, Program Management, Marketing, etc.
• Provide thought partnership to cross functional teammates to ensure the organization is using data thoughtfully and correctly
• Develop effective and scalable operational processes and fill operational gaps

• 8+ years of relevant work experience in an analytical and strategic role across analytics, consulting, product, business operations, or finance
• You are a strategic problem solver. You can break down ambiguous problems and apply a first principles approach to solving them.
• You are highly analytical and metrics-focused. You can execute on complex analyses, define KPIs, size opportunity areas, and measure and report on performance across the business
• Advanced technical skill set and strong proficiency in Excel + SQL
• You are a strong communicator. You can crisply communicate actionable data-driven insights to all audiences.
• You have strong product and business intuition. You contextualize how insights fit into broader business goals and have a strong understanding of product and business metrics.
• You are scrappy and resourceful. When something needs to get done, you always find a way to make it happen.
• You are an extraordinarily fast learner. You have the natural curiosity and intellectual horsepower to deeply…