Product Engineer - Ads

About the Position

We are looking for a Product Engineer - Ads to join our team in Toronto, ON. At Faire, we believe in the power of local businesses and are dedicated to connecting independent retailers with the best products from around the world. Our Ads team helps brands succeed by managing their growth and performance.

Responsibilities

• Product ownership: Take advertiser-facing features from problem to launch, including ads manager workflows, campaign controls, and performance reporting.
• Product judgment: Partner closely with Product, Design, Data Science, Analytics, and Marketing to identify business opportunities and execute on them. Bring customer empathy for brand advertisers, a clear point of view, and a bias for delivering over waiting for a perfect spec.
• Technical craft: Build scalable systems and product experiences that stay fast and reliable as our advertiser base grows, and contribute to the technical strategy that gets us there.
• AI fluency: Use AI tooling as a core part of how you deliver impact, from prototyping and coding to reviewing and exploring ideas faster.
• Data fluency: Instrument what you ship, then use the data to understand advertiser behavior, evaluate experiment results, and guide where we invest next.

Requirements

Must-haves

• 2+ years of full-time software engineering experience shipping product in a production environment.
• Strong product judgment and customer empathy. You think about what to build, not just how, and you've shipped features you can explain in terms of who used them and what changed.
• Has integrated AI tools into your regular engineering workflow; we want to see that AI has become part of how you work, not just something you've tried.
• Background in at least one of: ads / ad tech, large analytics or measurement products, or data engineering (pipelines, ETL, warehousing).
• Able to thrive in a high-pace product environment; a clear communicator who works effectively with PMs, designers, data scientists and our Go-to-Market team.

Preferred

• Experience with ads manager, campaign management, or other advertiser-facing tools.
• More than one of the domain backgrounds above (ads + analytics, analytics + data engineering, etc.).
• Hands-on frontend experience with React or similar.
• Experience with experimentation or customer-facing reporting.

Salary Range

Canada: the pay range for this role is $129,500 - $178,000 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.

We Offer

• 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.

About the Company

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.

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.

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.

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