Strategy & Operations Senior Associate

About Faire 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.

About this role

This is an opportunity to define and build the go-to-market strategy behind Faire's advertising business, one of our fastest-growing revenue lines. You'll set the strategy that expands advertising as a durable growth lever for thousands of brands on Faire, and you’ll drive how our brand-facing sales teams bring it to market. Additionally, you'll leverage GTM insights to drive cross-functional strategies, partnering on experimental programs, product improvements, and marketing motions.

You'll lead critical projects end-to-end: analytical deep dives, strategic planning, and new growth opportunity identification. This is a high visibility role expected to regularly present performance, new insights, and recommendations to Faire's go-to-market teams and leadership.

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 and have the opportunity to gain exposure to partnering with a variety of functions.

What you’ll do Break down complex and ambiguous strategic problems to uncover actionable insights

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.

Identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, execute in-depth analyses and make recommendations to Faire’s leadership team based on your findings

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 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

Qualifications3+ 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 + SQLYou 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 understand new topics and pick up new skills in a very…