Strategic Finance Lead

About Faire

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. If you believe in community, come join ours.

About the role

We’re looking for a collaborative and proactive candidate to take on both strategic and analytical projects that shape how we scale our growing suite of financial products that help retailers and brands grow their businesses. In this role, you’ll lead high-impact projects end to end — from financial forecasting and strategic analysis to presenting recommendations to Faire’s leadership team that inform the direction of our financial product ecosystem. You’ll partner cross-functionally with product, engineering, data science, sales, and marketing teams, and will work closely with Finance leadership on capital markets strategy, turning insights into action, and driving meaningful outcomes for our customers.

Job Description

Capital is necessary in every business, but at Faire it serves as a core value proposition to our customers. The Finance & Strategy team ensures we have access to it and are spending it effectively, but also wears several other hats at Faire including strategic growth planning, company-wide performance management, and business analysis. As part of this team, you will help inform how Faire can optimally allocate capital in the form of customer benefits that translates to customer loyalty and high-quality, sustainable growth. This is an ideal role for someone who wants to work in a dynamic, highly collaborative, and data-driven environment and have the opportunity to work closely with a variety of functions.

What you\'ll do

• Identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, and execute in-depth analyses to inform product strategy and execution for Faire’s proprietary credit product, Faire Pay
• Own forecasting, goal-setting, and tracking of key inputs that drive Faire Pay ROI and inform company-level capital and resource allocation decisions
• Drive Faire Pay’s capital markets strategy by mapping out financing structures to support the product’s growth, driving engagement with external stakeholders (including lenders and / or investors), and executing initiatives to both implement and de-risk this strategy
• Lead strategic planning across one or more functional areas, partnering with leaders across the organization to position the business for long-term success
• Enable the organization to remain highly data-driven at scale by synthesizing insights, building financial models, and developing KPIs for real-time performance monitoring

Qualifications

Nice to have

Salary Range

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 2 days per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Effective starting in January 2026, employees will be expected to go into the office on 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. Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date.

Why you’ll love working at Faire

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.

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