Strategy & Analytics Senior Director, Discovery

About the Position

We are looking for a Strategy & Analytics Senior Director to join our team at Faire and lead our Discovery pillar. Our Discovery pillar focuses on enhancing the shopping experience for retailers by helping them find the right products and brands through search, recommendations, ads, and exploration while balancing marketplace dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Drive strategic decisions at the pillar level. Serve as a trusted member of Discovery pillar leadership to inform the pillar’s most important decisions through pillar-level analysis, leveling up pod work, identifying white space opportunities, and connecting the dots across pods.
• Build, manage, and level up the Discovery S&A team. Recruit, coach, and grow an all-star S&A team. Set a clear bar and vision to develop ICs.
• Own offensive and defensive tracking for key company and Discovery metrics. Drive a reporting drumbeat key metrics so we catch issues early, know when to decomp, and proactively identify opportunities to move them.
• Set the standard for analytical rigor across Discovery. Raise the bar on how the pillar uses data to make decisions. Set and uphold experimentation best practices for Discovery, from how tests are designed to how results get acted on.
• Make Discovery data usable company-wide. Drive the creation of the datasets, documentation, and self-serve tooling that enable anyone at Faire to reliably leverage complex Discovery data in analysis.
• Be the steward of data enablement for S&A. Own the tooling, operating model, and cross-functional relationships to ensure S&A has the right foundations to quickly and reliably drive impact.
• Create the systems and processes that enable a well-run team. Create the right systems to enable Discovery S&As to set the analytical roadmap, prioritize effectively, and scale themselves and their impact. Take what works well to level up the broader S&A team.

Requirements

• Team Building: Proven ability to attract, develop, and retain top talent.
• Strategic Problem Solving: World-class at breaking down the most ambiguous problems and coordinating large teams to answer them. Clear, structured, and concise communicator.
• Product & Business Intuition: Can contextualize how insights fit into broader business goals. Ideally has a deep understanding of marketplaces and/or discovery.
• Proactivity & Ownership: Identifies gaps in knowledge or the way we work and owns driving solutions forward.
• Analytics: Has a strong technical toolkit. Can go deep on the hardest Discovery analyses and sets a high bar for analytical rigor and digging to the root.
• Cross-functional influence: Strong collaborative partner to key stakeholders. Gets outcomes through partners without formal authority.
• Values: Growth mindset, scrappy, adaptable, curious, low ego, and strong work ethic.

Salary Range

San Francisco, CA or New York City, NY: the pay range for this role is $285,500 - $392,500 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. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.

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.

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