Strategic Finance Senior Lead, Faire

• Bachelor’s degree and 7+ years work experience in strategic finance (preferred), private equity / venture capital, investment banking, and/or management consulting
• AI-forward working style: Actively experiments with AI tools to accelerate and sharpen analytical work — whether that's automating rote modeling tasks, pressure-testing assumptions, or generating faster first drafts of complex analyses
• Strong modeling muscle: able to build and stress-test financial models that are both grounded in historical evidence and operationalized with levers that demonstrate how investment activities translate to positive impact and ROI
• Forecasting depth: Strong ability to identify and understand the key business drivers, build forward-looking projections, and translate those into reliable predictions of future growth — connecting operational inputs to financial outcomes with conviction
• Analytical rigor: can synthesize information, decompose problems, and use data and logic to diagnose root causes. Comfortable going deep on unit economics without losing the thread on the most important strategic questions
• Excellent communication: credible, structured storytelling for executives and cross-functional partners; able to zoom-in and zoom-out between the details and key takeaway narrative
• Cross-functional partner: track record building trust and alignment across Product, GTM, Business Development, and Operations; organized with strong deadline management across concurrent workstreams
• A get things done mindset - resourceful and not afraid to roll up sleeves when necessary to move forward tactically. Your approach to monitoring performance balances fidelity with execution velocity

Desirable

• We are looking for a Strategic Finance Senior Lead to guide the next phase of new customer growth through Faire’s product-led, viral customer acquisition engine – Faire Direct. It turns every brand on the platform into a customer acquisition channel, as brands capture the value tied to consolidating their existing retailer relationships onto Faire, thereby growing the network for everyone
• The Strategic Finance team at Faire is organized around both product roadmap pillars and functional coverage areas (e.g. departments or company-wide objectives). This role would serve as the primary Finance Business Partner (i.e. “mini-CFO”) to the product and go-to-market functions driving Faire Direct and its vision for becoming the dominant Brand Wholesale Platform
• Drive clarity on Faire Direct performance through owning operational and financial forecasting
• Maintain guardrails that drive investment discipline and steer partners to allocate capital efficiently
• Work closely with cross functional partners to develop, understand, and track execution plans against goals
• Translates how Faire Direct product and GTM investment activities are impacting financial results
• Communicate the financial narrative of Faire Direct performance to senior leadership
• This role will require the ability to spot opportunities/risks, develop hypotheses, pressure test inputs, forecast outputs and generate data driven insights
• The individual will partner closely with the several teams that have the mandate to drive Faire Direct growth (Retailer Growth, Brand Growth, Brand Success Management, International)