Strategy & Operations Senior Associate

Faire•San Francisco, CA

52d•$128,000 - $177,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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. We are looking for a Strategy & Operations 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.

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 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.

Responsibilities

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

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