Strategic Finance Lead: Financial Products

Strategic Finance Lead: Financial Products

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. 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 that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.

By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. 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 the Role

We're looking for a collaborative and proactive candidate to take on both strategic and analytical projects that shape how we scale our growing suite of financial products that help retailers and brands grow their businesses. In this role, you'll lead high-impact projects end to end — from financial forecasting and strategic analysis to presenting recommendations to Faire's leadership team that inform the direction of our financial product ecosystem. You'll partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, data science, sales, and marketing teams, and will work closely with Finance leadership on capital markets strategy, turning insights into action, and driving meaningful outcomes for our customers.

Job Description

Capital is necessary in every business, but at Faire it serves as a core value proposition to our customers. The Finance & Strategy team ensures we have access to it and are spending it effectively, but also wears several other hats at Faire including strategic growth planning, company-wide performance management, and business analysis. As part of this team, you will help inform how Faire can optimally allocate capital in the form of customer benefits that translates to customer loyalty and high-quality, sustainable growth. This is an ideal role for someone who wants to work in a dynamic, highly collaborative, and data-driven environment and have the opportunity to work closely with a variety of functions.

What You'll Do:

• Identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, and execute in-depth analyses to inform product strategy and execution for Faire's proprietary credit product, Faire Pay
• Own forecasting, goal-setting, and tracking of key inputs that drive Faire Pay ROI and inform company-level capital and resource allocation decisions
• Drive Faire Pay's capital markets strategy by mapping out financing structures to support the product's growth, driving engagement with external stakeholders (including lenders and/or investors), and executing initiatives to both implement and de-risk this strategy
• Lead strategic planning across one or more functional areas, partnering with leaders across the organization to position the business for long-term success
• Enable the organization to remain highly data-driven at scale by synthesizing insights, building financial models, and developing KPIs for real-time performance monitoring

Qualifications:

• A Bachelor's degree and 5+ years of combined experience in strategic corporate finance, investing (hedge fund, private equity, venture capital), or financial services (investment banking or equity research) within the fintech or technology sector
• You are analytical and data-driven - you can define KPIs and measure progress/success for your initiatives
• You can think across multiple dimensions of a business (sales, product, marketing etc.) and work cross-functionally to deliver results
• A team-oriented approach — you care about outcomes and enjoy working toward shared goals
• Comfort with a fast-moving environment and evolving priorities
• A hands-on and resourceful attitude — you're eager to learn and find creative solutions

Nice to Have:

• Experience in fintech, especially in analyzing, scaling, or managing a lending or credit product at a growing technology company
• Knowledge of SQL

Salary Range:

San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $158,500 to $218,000 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:

• 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 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 more than 350,000 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 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.