Faire
Strategic Finance Lead
San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1 day ago
Machine LearningBusiness DevelopmentFinancial ModelingFinancial AnalysisLogisticsLeadershipCommunication
About the role
- This role is central to how we scale fulfillment from zero to one: making disciplined tradeoffs on cost-to-serve, network economics, and partnerships so we improve service for brands and retailers while de-risking long-term financial outcomes.
- Capital and operational efficiency both matter at Faire, but fulfillment is increasingly where scale, customer experience, and P&L intersect.
- The Finance & Strategy team helps ensure we invest with clarity - linking strategy to numbers and turning complexity into decisions that leadership can act on.
Responsibilities
- Own fulfillment unit economics and scenario modeling.
- Build and maintain the financial models that underpin Faire's fulfillment strategy-cost-to-serve, network economics, carrier and 3PL pricing-and translate outputs into clear tradeoffs that inform investment decisions and operational priorities.
- Support 3PL and carrier contract strategy. Lead financial analysis for negotiations, including scenario modeling across rate structures, volume commitments, and service tiers so Faire enters and renews contracts from a position of analytical strength.
- Connect fulfillment to brand, retailer, and GMV outcomes. Develop a sharp view of how fulfillment cost, speed, and reliability intersect with brand and retailer behavior
- Influence the fulfillment roadmap at leadership level. Partner with Product, GTM, and Business Development on investment decisions
- deliver hypothesis-driven analysis that ties operational tradeoffs to Faire's broader financial outputs.
- Connect fulfillment to brand, retailer, and GMV outcomes. Develop a sharp view of how fulfillment cost, speed, and reliability intersect with brand and retailer behavior; use those insights to shape product and GTM strategy.
- Influence the fulfillment roadmap at leadership level. Partner with Product, GTM, and Business Development on investment decisions; deliver hypothesis-driven analysis that ties operational tradeoffs to Faire's broader financial outputs.
- able to build and stress-test financial models that reflect operational reality, not just spreadsheet theory
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree and 5+ years in strategic corporate finance, private equity / venture capital, investment banking, management consulting, and/or finance/partnering roles with heavy operational or logistics-adjacent complexity
- Strong modeling muscle: able to build and stress-test financial models that reflect operational reality, not just spreadsheet theory
- Analytical rigor: synthesize information, decompose problems, and use data and logic to diagnose root causes-comfortable going deep on unit economics without losing the strategic question
- Excellent communication: credible, structured storytelling for executives and cross-functional partners
- able to zoom between detail and narrative
- Cross-functional operator: track record building trust and alignment across Product, GTM, Business Development, and Operations
- organized with strong deadline management across concurrent workstreams
- Team-oriented: motivated by business outcomes over personal recognition in a high-impact IC role
- Nice to have
Nice to have
- Experience in e-commerce, marketplaces, or logistics-intensive businesses where fulfillment economics are central to the P&L
- AI-forward working
Skills
- Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local.
Company info
- As Strategic Finance Lead, you will conduct the financial and strategic analysis that informs how Faire optimally invests in scaling and improving fulfillment and logistics.
- That includes deep scenario modeling and a firm grasp of the building blocks of our unit economics, so we can iterate confidently as the fulfillment operation grows.
- This is an ideal role for someone who thrives in a dynamic, highly collaborative, data-driven environment and wants to work closely across functions - with outsized impact on how the marketplace delivers for customers.
- We're looking for a high-agency Strategic Finance Lead to own financial and strategic analysis for Faire's emerging fulfillment and logistics investments.
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