Full-Time

Strategy & Analytics Lead

Posted on 3/14/2025

Faire

Faire

1,001-5,000 employees

Wholesale marketplace linking brands and retailers

Compensation Overview

$158.5k - $218k/yr

+ Equity

San Francisco, CA, USA + 1 more

More locations: New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

Hybrid: 2 in-office days/week (Tue/Thu); starting Jan 2026, 3rd flex day; remote up to 4 weeks/year.

Category
Business & Strategy (1)
Requirements
  • 5+ years of relevant work experience in an analytical and strategic role across analytics, consulting, product, business operations, or finance
  • You are a strategic problem solver. You can break down ambiguous problems and apply a first principles approach to solving them
  • You are highly analytical and metrics-focused. You can execute on complex analyses, define KPIs, size opportunity areas, and measure and report on performance across the business
  • You are a strong communicator. You can crisply communicate actionable data-driven insights to all audiences
  • You have strong product and business intuition. You contextualize how insights fit into broader business goals and have a strong understanding of product and business metrics
  • You have a solid analytical foundation. You can use SQL or excel to analyze large datasets and have strong analytical rigor
  • You are scrappy and resourceful. When something needs to get done, you always find a way to make it happen
  • You are an extraordinarily fast learner. You have the natural curiosity and intellectual horsepower to deeply understand new topics and pick up new skills in a very short time
Responsibilities
  • Break down complex and ambiguous strategic problems to uncover actionable insights
  • Tackle large cross-functional strategic initiatives that move company metrics in partnership with Product, Sales, Finance, Operations, Marketing, etc.
  • Identify opportunities, develop hypotheses, execute in-depth analyses and make recommendations to Faire’s leadership team based on your findings
  • Own the most important metrics for our business by having deep intuition on how they are trending and surfacing the most salient strategic insights to drive them
  • Provide thought partnership to cross functional teammates to ensure the organization is using data thoughtfully and correctly
  • Develop effective and scalable operational processes and fill operational gaps
  • Level up the Strategy & Analytics team through new and improved processes, training, coaching and more

Faire is a B2B wholesale marketplace that connects independent brands with local retailers. Brands list products on the platform and retailers browse to discover unique items to stock in their stores. Faire earns revenue mainly through commissions on sales facilitated through the marketplace and offers services like inventory management and data analytics to help both sides optimize operations. The platform serves small to mid-sized businesses and focuses on strengthening local communities by enabling brands and retailers to grow together. Unlike general e-commerce platforms, Faire concentrates on wholesale relationships between brands and neighborhood retailers, providing tools that streamline ordering, payments, and analytics tailored to wholesale workflows.

Company Size

1,001-5,000

Company Stage

Series G

Total Funding

$1.5B

Headquarters

San Francisco, California

Founded

2017

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Simplify's Take

What believers are saying

  • Revenue accelerated to 37% growth in H2 2025, reaching $550M run rate.
  • Lightspeed integration expands distribution to 100+ countries without platform friction.
  • Michael Fleisher appointment signals board-level scaling expertise and IPO readiness.

What critics are saying

  • Lightspeed integration enables retailers to bypass Faire marketplace, eroding transaction volume.
  • Amazon Business expands B2B independent brand sections with Prime logistics advantage.
  • Temu and Shein B2B wholesale undercut Faire pricing for cost-sensitive retailers.

What makes Faire unique

  • Net 60 payment terms and free returns reduce retailer risk versus traditional wholesale.
  • Commission structure incentivizes brands to drive demand via Faire Direct links.
  • 600,000 retailers and 85,000 brands create network effects favoring independent businesses.

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Benefits

Time off

Parental leave

Daily mindfulness

Annual learning grant

Thoughtfully designed spaces

Fitness & wellbeing benefits

Mental health benefits

Charitable matching

Career planning

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

0%

2 year growth

0%
PR Newswire
Mar 31st, 2026
Lightspeed integrates Faire's 100K+ brands into unified retail platform

Lightspeed has launched an integration with Faire, a B2B wholesale marketplace, giving retailers access to over 100,000 brands directly within Lightspeed Retail. The integration allows merchants to link their Faire account and automatically sync product information, including images, descriptions, variants and cost data, into Lightspeed Retail. The feature aims to reduce operational complexity for independent retailers sourcing new products. Merchants can place orders through Faire and choose to import selected products or automatically create inventory items when orders are placed, minimising manual data entry. The integration expands Lightspeed's wholesale buying ecosystem, which also includes NuORDER by Lightspeed. The feature is now available to eligible Lightspeed Retail merchants across the company's platform, which serves retail, golf and hospitality businesses in over 100 countries.

CNBC
Mar 19th, 2026
Faire CEO: We took 'shortcuts' to grow—alarm bells went off before we lost the company

Faire, an online wholesale marketplace connecting artisans with retailers, saw its valuation drop from $12.59 billion to $5.2 billion after CEO Max Rhodes discovered troubling metrics in April 2022. The company had grown to 1,200 employees whilst chasing "vanity metrics" and using investor capital as a shortcut to growth. Rhodes found dropping retention rates, customer complaints and users exploiting short-term incentives before leaving. Instead of spending more to reignite growth, Faire cut staff by 20% and eliminated discounts. The strategy worked: revenue grew 32% in 2025 over 2024, retention rates improved and the company expects to break even soon. Rhodes attributes the near-failure to hubris during rapid growth. "Success can be dangerous," he says, advising entrepreneurs to stay grounded in core values.

The Associated Press
Mar 11th, 2026
Former Wayfair CFO joins Faire board as revenue hits $550M run rate

Faire, the wholesale technology platform, has appointed Michael Fleisher, former CFO of Wayfair, to its board of directors as chair of the audit committee. Fleisher led Wayfair through its IPO and helped scale the company from $1 billion to over $12 billion in annual revenue. He previously served as CFO of Warner Music Group and CEO of Gartner. The appointment comes as Faire reports strong growth, with revenue increasing 32% in 2025 and accelerating to 37% in the second half of the year, now annualising at approximately $550 million. The company has facilitated over 10 million connections between brands and retailers on its platform. Fleisher replaces Ellie Mertz and follows the recent appointment of Christopher Payne, former COO of DoorDash.

The Star
Nov 18th, 2025
Faire Employee Share Sale at $5.2B Valuation

Faire, an online marketplace, is allowing employees to sell shares at a $5.2 billion valuation, moving closer to an IPO. The $100 million tender offer is led by WCM Investment Management, with Baillie Gifford & Co and True North Fund participating. This marks the first public valuation since a $400 million funding round at $12.4 billion in 2021. Faire's CFO, Jason Lee, noted the company's strong cash position and potential for a future IPO.

BetaKit
May 19th, 2025
Why Faire’S Co-Founder Wants To Bring Silicon Valley’S Dna To Canada

Faire’s Chief Architect fell in love with Canada. Now he’s selling his new home to the rest of the world

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