Strategy & Operations Senior Associate

Faire•San Francisco, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

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.

Requirements

3+ 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 understand new topics and pick up new skills in a very short time.

Responsibilities

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