Faire

Strategy & Analytics Senior Director, Discovery

Faire • $285K — $392K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven ability to attract, develop, and retain top talent.
  • Exceptional skills in strategic problem solving, particularly in ambiguous situations.
  • Strong understanding of marketplaces and the broader business context of insights.
  • Demonstrated proactivity and ownership in driving solutions.
  • Robust technical analytics skills with a high standard for analytical rigor.
  • Effective collaborator who influences across functions without formal authority.
  • Possesses a growth mindset and strong work ethic, with adaptability and curiosity.

Responsibilities

  • Drive strategic decisions at the Discovery pillar level.
  • Build and manage a high-performing Strategy & Analytics team.
  • Own offensive and defensive tracking for key Discovery metrics.
  • Raise the standard for analytical rigor within the Discovery pillar.
  • Create usable Discovery data frameworks and self-service tools.
  • Serve as the steward for data enablement, ensuring robust operational foundations.
  • Establish systems and processes that enhance team effectiveness.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to take ownership of impactful projects with global reach.
  • Access to the latest enterprise AI tools to enhance productivity.
  • Supportive team culture focused on professional growth.
  • Competitive pay and equity options.
  • Commitment to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Full Job Description
About this role

We're looking for a Strategy & Analytics Senior Director to lead our Discovery pillar. Our Discovery pillar focuses on the core shopping experience - helping retailers find the right products and brands through search, recommendations, ads, and exploration while balancing marketplace dynamics.

As the Discovery S&A Pillar lead, you'll level up the Discovery pillar through analytics, both strategically and operationally. You will inform the pillar's most important decisions as a strategic thought partner, operationalize analytics through thoughtful systems, and take extreme ownership of key company-wide datasets and metrics. You will build and lead a high-performing S&A team that delivers these with exceptional strategic clarity, analytical rigor, and ownership.

What you'll do
  • 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.

Qualifications
  • 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 it. Can cut through the noise to get to the answer and coach their team to do the same. Clear, structured, and concise communicator.
  • Product & Business Intuition - Can contextualize how insights fit into broader business goals. Ideally has 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.

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.

About Faire

Faire is an online wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers with small and medium-sized brands. The company offers a range of products such as home decor, jewelry, and accessories. Faire was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The company has over 600 employees and operates in the United States, Canada, and Europe. Faire has raised over $400 million in funding and has partnerships with over 150,000 retailers and 15,000 brands.
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2017

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