About Faire
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.
About This Role
We are looking for a Strategic Finance Lead to serve as the finance business partner to Faire’s People organization and lead the design and implementation of company-wide headcount planning tools and policy. This role will advise broader strategic finance strategy, reporting, and planning.
The Finance and Strategy Team’s mission is to maximize the long-term value of Faire by helping drive optimal investment decisions and by partnering on execution. We work closely with our cross-functional partners and bring a data-driven approach to analyzing business opportunities. We wear several hats at Faire including strategic growth planning, company-wide performance management, and business analytics. This role will partner with the CFO, Chief People Officer, and other senior leaders cross-functionally on financial budgeting, planning and forecasting to ultimately drive the best outcomes for the business.
What you’ll do:
- Act as the finance business partner to leadership across the People organization, including Recruiting, HR, and Compensation, providing financial analysis, decision support, and appropriate challenge.
- Design, implement, and continuously improve headcount planning tools, policies, and approval frameworks that enable the business to manage its most significant resource investment.
- Own the company-wide headcount reporting and forecasting process, including headcount variance analysis, cost modeling, and workforce planning insights for leadership.
- Partner with People leadership on compensation benchmarking analysis, benefits cost modeling, and other people-related financial analyses to support strategic decision-making.
- Develop and maintain reporting frameworks that provide leadership with clear visibility into people-related spend, productivity, and investment efficiency.
- Contribute to communications and key corporate reporting requirements to executives and board members (e.g. P&L, performance KPI tracking).
- Continuously improve and standardize reporting frameworks, systems, and processes across the corporate finance function.
Qualifications:
- 6+ years of relevant experience in FP&A, Strategic Finance, or Investment Banking with 3+ years of direct Corporate Finance experience. Experience as a finance business partner to People/HR functions is a strong plus.
- Strong business & financial acumen with understanding of technology or marketplace business models. Maintains a high bar for separating signal from noise.
- Headcount and workforce planning expertise with experience designing or managing headcount planning processes, tools, and policies at scale.
- Strong financial analytical capabilities.
- Excellent writing and presentation skills with the ability to synthesize data and metrics to tell a compelling story, and tailor content to different audiences.
- Strong project management skills with the ability to structure and manage complex cross-functional projects.
- Sharp attention to detail with a proactive approach to problem-solving.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or other relevant field.
Salary Range
New York City / San Francisco : the pay range for this role is $158,500 to $218,000 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. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting.
Why you’ll love working at Faire
- 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.
Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.
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 (https://bit.ly/faire-form)
Privacy
For information about the type of personal data Faire collects from applicants, as well as your choices regarding the data collected about you, please visit Faire’s Privacy Notice (https://www.faire.com/privacy)
Faire Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Faire and has not been reviewed or approved by Faire.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is positioned as comprehensive across medical, dental, and vision, with dental preventative care covered at 100% and disability coverage described as fully covered. Mental health support is treated as a core benefit through therapy/coaching access and tools such as Headspace.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is framed as generous through paid vacation, holidays, and company-wide PTO days (“Faire Fundays”), with multiple mentions of unlimited or flexible PTO language. Remote/hybrid flexibility is also repeatedly presented as a meaningful part of the overall rewards experience.
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Parental & Family Support — Parental leave is characterized as generous, and fertility support is explicitly included in the benefits package. Family-oriented community support is reinforced through a dedicated parent ERG (“Fairents”).
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What We Do
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — there are over 2 million independent retailers in North America and Europe doing more than $2 trillion in revenue. 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.
Why Work With Us
Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. Our customers are at the heart of every decision we make, and we are motivated by the impact we have on local economies and communities around the world. If you believe in community, come join ours.
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