About Faire
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.
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 this role
The mission of the Brand Success team is to partner with and coach the highest potential brands to most effectively utilize Faire’s wholesale platform - to grow their sales and simplify their operations. We are seeking a results-oriented customer success / account management professional to manage a book of ~200 brands. You will be responsible for engaging and coaching brands within your book on strategies, tactics, programs, products, and events on Faire, in addition to supporting their day-to-day operations. You will be accountable for driving high-value brand actions using a tailored brand-specific approach. Your success in the role will be based on hitting sales goals related to our brands’ utilization of Faire’s tools and upselling them on new products and programs we are launching.
What you’ll do
- Regularly engage with brands across scaled and 1:1 email, phone, and video calls
- Owns your book of business + revenue outcomes you’re responsible for driving
- Develop and manage customer relationships, built on trust and credibility
- Drive high-value adoption and ongoing usage of Faire Direct via brand sales and marketing efforts to maximize Retailer Acquisition
- Drive customer adoption and retention within brand-funded programs such as Ads and Insider Partnership
- Identify growth opportunities for your brands, and coach them from strategy through execution
- Communicate new product releases and updates to your accounts
- Synthesize, measure, and communicate the voice of the customer to provide actionable and invaluable feedback to help size blockers and prioritize product development
- Collaborate cross-functionally on various initiatives to further the success of our brands (support, product, design, marketing, etc.)
- Use data, graphs and reports to truth seek and drive action to beat goals
- Be relentlessly resourceful, scrappy and act with urgency to ensure Faire’s success
- Be adaptable to changing business needs and goals
- Foster a psychologically safe, motivating, inclusive and energizing team culture
Qualifications
- Experience: You have 3-5 years of experience in sales, account management, or business development in a fast paced environment; You have experience using a variety of fundamental sales and data tools (e.g. Salesforce, data visualization software, call recording tools)
- Customer obsessed: You always do what’s right for the customer; are our customers’ strongest advocate; you understand the needs and priorities of small businesses, and are excited to help these small businesses be successful.
- Goal-oriented: This is a quota-based role! We want you to be motivated to exceed your goals.
- Strong communicator: You are excellent at listening and at communicating ideas clearly and succinctly both in verbal and written form. You can aggregate customer feedback to influence cross-functional stakeholders/decisions.
- Ownership mentality: You are an owner and are willing to go above and beyond your job description to help your team succeed. You have a bias to action, and a willingness to figure things out.
- Relentlessly resourceful: You won’t quit and are willing to do whatever it takes to make brands and our team succeed
- Growth Mindset: You are self aware and can identify your own strengths and weaknesses. You have intrinsic curiosity and are eager to accept feedback and actively seek out ways to get better every day
- Agile and flexible: You have an ability to learn fast, iterate, and be adaptable. You are resilient and bounce back when things get tough.
- Collaborative: You empathize with and work well across teams; You want to be around others who share your goals and you want to be growing and achieving together. You share best practices and you see your team’s success as your own.
- Creative problem solving / innovation: You can come up with creative solutions to customers’ problems. You can create, iterate, and evolve the Brand Success strategy, process, and tactics to help build an effective and efficient motion.
- Analytical rigor: You are effective at leveraging data to identify and discuss actionable insights; You are able to track, analyze, and communicate key performance metrics
On-Target Earnings (OTE) Range
California / New York: the pay range for this role is $99,000 to $136,500 per year.
This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual On-Target Earnings (OTE) will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The OTE range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
This role will be in-office on a hybrid schedule - Faire employees will be expected to go into the office 2 days per week on Tuesdays and Thursdays, effective the week of January 13, 2025. Additionally, in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year.
Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date.
Why you’ll love working at Faire
- We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is taking part in the founding process.
- We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
- We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
- We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.
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. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form)
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What We Do
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — there are over 2 million independent retailers in North America and Europe doing more than $2 trillion in revenue. At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe. Picture your favorite boutique in town — we help them discover the best products from around the world to sell in their stores. With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.
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.
Why Work With Us
Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. Our customers are at the heart of every decision we make, and we are motivated by the impact we have on local economies and communities around the world. If you believe in community, come join ours.