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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 an analytical, creative, and resourceful SEO/AEO Content Strategist to help grow Faire’s visibility and authority across both traditional search engines and emerging answer engines such as ChatGPT and Google AI Mode.
This person will help research, identify, and execute content opportunities across Faire’s owned properties to improve organic search and AI visibility. They will combine hands-on content creation, optimization, and refreshes with data-driven research to identify high-impact opportunities across the blog, landing pages, transactional pages, YouTube, and other relevant surfaces.
The ideal candidate combines strong content writing skills, editorial judgment, and SEO expertise. You’re curious about how AI is changing user behavior and content discovery, and you’re comfortable moving between strategy and execution. You use data and AI tools to scale content production while maintaining a high bar for quality. Above all, you always put the customer first.
What you’ll do
- Help shape and execute Faire’s content strategy across owned properties to grow organic visibility, qualified traffic, and authority across traditional search engines and AI answer engines like ChatGPT and Google AI Mode.
- Conduct keyword, competitive, and search-intent research to identify high-impact topics, content gaps, and opportunities to improve Faire’s organic visibility, AI citations, and qualified traffic.
- Write, optimize, and refresh high-quality content across Faire-owned properties, including the blog, landing pages, transactional pages, and YouTube. Apply SEO/AEO best practices to help independent retailers and small business owners discover Faire and find answers to their questions.
- Analyze content performance across organic traffic, keyword rankings, conversions, AI visibility, and citations to inform Faire’s broader SEO/AEO content strategy. Translate insights into actionable recommendations and communicate performance and progress to key stakeholders.
- Optimize content structure, internal linking, and on-page SEO to help search engines and AI platforms discover, understand, and cite Faire’s content.
- Build and optimize AI powered workflows to streamline research, drafting, content enrichment, optimization, and publishing while maintaining editorial standards and content quality.
- Partner closely with Brand, Social, Product, Community, and Engineering to strengthen Faire’s authority and build a consistent, differentiated source of information about wholesale and independent retail.
Qualifications
- 4-6 years of experience in SEO, content marketing, editorial strategy, or a related field.
- Proven track record of growing organic traffic, AI visibility, and conversions.
- Strong foundation in SEO and content marketing, with working knowledge of AEO and how AI platforms discover, retrieve, and cite content.
- Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills, with the ability to translate complex topics into clear, engaging, and useful content for small business audiences.
- Highly analytical, with experience using performance data to identify opportunities, prioritize initiatives, and measure the impact of content on business outcomes.
- Proficiency with SEO and analytics tools such as Google Search Console, SEMrush, Conductor, and AI visibility platforms; able to independently analyze performance and develop recommendations.
- Experience with content automation platforms such as AirOps, or building AI-powered workflows to improve content workflows, automate repetitive tasks, and scale execution, is a plus.
- High agency and resourcefulness, with the ability to work independently, navigate ambiguity, and collaborate effectively across teams.
- Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment.
Salary Range
New York: the pay range for this role is $118,500 to $163,000 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
- Flexible paid time off, plus company-wide recharge days
- Paid parental leave up to 16 weeks
- Comprehensive health coverage, with options varying by location
- Fertility and family-building benefits through Carrot, including a lifetime reimbursement allowance
- Mental health support and coaching through Modern Health
- Stipends to support your professional development, wellness, and work from home needs
- Employer-sponsored retirement plan, dependent on country of employment
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)
Skills Required
- 4-6 years of experience in SEO, content marketing, editorial strategy, or a related field
- Proven track record of growing organic traffic, AI visibility, and conversions
- Strong foundation in SEO and content marketing, with working knowledge of AEO and how AI platforms discover, retrieve, and cite content
- Excellent writing, editing, and storytelling skills
- Ability to translate complex topics into clear, engaging, and useful content for small business audiences
- Strong analytical skills and experience using performance data to identify opportunities, prioritize initiatives, and measure business impact
- Proficiency with Google Search Console, SEMrush, Conductor, and AI visibility platforms
- Ability to independently analyze performance and develop recommendations
- Experience with content automation platforms such as AirOps or building AI-powered workflows
- High agency and resourcefulness, with the ability to work independently and navigate ambiguity
- Ability to collaborate effectively across teams
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
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”).
Faire Insights
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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