Strategy & Operations Senior Lead

Faire•San Francisco, CA

2d•$197,500 - $271,500•Hybrid

About The Position

Faire is seeking a strategic, analytical leader to drive the growth and performance of new products on its wholesale marketplace. The role owns forecasting, business intelligence, and go-to-market strategy for New Product GMV and Out of Stocks, turning complex marketplace dynamics into actionable insights and strategic priorities. The position partners closely with Revenue, Product, Data Science, and other cross-functional teams to develop and execute strategies that improve product availability and growth. This is a high-impact individual-contributor role in a fast-paced, collaborative, data-driven environment. It is highly visible, with regular presentations of strategic insights and recommendations to Faire’s leadership team, and the work directly affects Faire and its customers.

Requirements

8+ years of relevant work experience in an analytical and strategic role across analytics, consulting, product, business operations, or finance.
Ability to break down ambiguous problems and use a first-principles approach to solving them.
Strong analytical and metrics-focused skills, including complex analysis, KPI definition, opportunity sizing, and performance measurement and reporting.
Advanced technical skills and strong proficiency in Excel and SQL.
Strong communication skills and ability to clearly convey actionable, data-driven insights to varied audiences.
Strong product and business intuition, including the ability to connect insights to broader business goals and understand product and business metrics.
Resourcefulness and ability to find ways to get work done.
Ability to learn quickly, demonstrate curiosity, and rapidly understand new topics and skills.

Responsibilities

Own key business metrics, understand how they are trending, and surface strategic insights to improve performance.
Break down complex and ambiguous strategic problems, identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, conduct in-depth analyses, and make recommendations to Faire’s leadership team.
Develop, refine, and execute go-to-market strategies.
Lead large cross-functional strategic initiatives in partnership with Product, Sales, Systems, Program Management, Marketing, and other teams.
Provide thought partnership to cross-functional teammates to support thoughtful and correct use of data.
Develop scalable operational processes and address operational gaps.
Own forecasting, business intelligence, and go-to-market strategy for New Product GMV and Out of Stocks.