Strategy & Analytics Lead

Faire; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 164,000 - 225,500; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Comprehensive benefits

Competitive pay

Job summary

Faire is seeking a Strategy & Analytics Lead in San Francisco or New York, partnering with Product, Sales, Operations, Marketing, and Finance to drive growth. You will translate data into strategic action, own critical metrics, and shape the roadmap with analytical rigor in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

You will influence high-impact initiatives, leverage SQL/Excel to analyze datasets, and contribute to an equity‑driven compensation culture in a global company.

Qualifications

• Strategic problem solving and reduction of ambiguity into actionable insights.

Responsibilities

• Break down complex strategic problems to uncover actionable insights.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives with product, sales, finance, operations, marketing, and more.
• Identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, run in-depth analyses, and present recommendations to leadership.
• Own key business metrics and surface salient insights to drive them forward.
• Provide data governance and ensure thoughtful, correct use of data across teams.
• Develop scalable operational processes and close gaps in analytics workflows.
• Elevate the Strategy & Analytics function through better processes, training, and coaching.

Skills

Strategic problem solving

Analytical and metrics-focused

Communication

Product and business intuition

SQL or Excel

Scrappy and resourceful

Fast learner

Job description

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.

About This Role

We are looking for a Strategy & Analytics Lead to drive better decisions, faster. In this role, you’ll leverage a unique combination of skills including analytical rigor, strategic intuition, and execution to drive growth for our business. At Faire, you’ll have the chance to lead mission‑critical projects end to end. You’ll be partnering cross‑functionally with Product, Sales, Operations, Marketing, and Finance teams to inform the strategic roadmap by generating insights and helping translate them into action.

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
• Lead large cross‑functional strategic initiatives that move company metrics in partnership with Product, Sales, Finance, Operations, 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
• Level up the Strategy & Analytics team through new and improved processes, training, coaching and more

Qualifications

• 5+ 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
• 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 have a solid analytical foundation. You can use SQL or excel to analyze large datasets and have strong analytical rigor
• 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 short time

Salary Range

San Francisco or New York City: the pay range for this role is $164,000 - 225,500 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.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

• Move fast: You’ll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.
• Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day.
• Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours.
• Real rewards. Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work.
• Belonging: We’re intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success.

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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