Associate Product Manager

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. 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

• If you love working at the nexus of design, engineering, and customers to bring ideas to life, product is the place for you. We are looking for an outstanding Associate Product Manager who will collaborate closely with engineering, design, data science, go-to-market teams to drive our business forward. In this role, you will partner closely with a Senior Product Manager on a large scope, to solve our hairiest customer problems and create value for the business. The expectation of this role is that you will learn the product craft quickly in your first year, be instrumental in moving Faire’s highest priority, trickiest problems forward, and will be ready to move into a Senior Product Manager role after meeting performance objectives.  

What you’ll do 

• Deeply understand our customers, build strategies and roadmaps that anticipate and support their needs, and execute rapidly and with an eye to metrics impact to improve their experience
• Build programs and features to support our customers. For example, you might help build our first ad system to help brands reach more retailers on Faire, or you might help drastically expand the benefits that retailers can get from Faire to simplify their ways of working and improve their margins
• Hone your product craft, with strong support from product leads to master the product discipline, make hard tradeoffs, and understand the business equation and flywheel that makes our marketplace work - and accelerate it
• Work with, learn from, and build strong relationships with a broad range of world-class leaders across engineering, product management, data science, design, and operations
• Make decisions alongside company founders and the CEO 
• Empower small businesses around the world to chase their dreams and invest in their local communities

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent.
• You have 2-4 years of experience at a tech company in a product, software development, or analytical role; as a startup founder; or in management consulting
• You’re an extraordinarily fast learner. You have the natural curiosity, low ego, and intellectual horsepower to deeply understand new topics and pick up new skills in a very short time.
• You are relentlessly resourceful. When something needs to get done, you always find a way to make it happen. Even when the work is hard, you power through it and execute with limited information and ambiguity.
• You are a creative problem-solver. You excel at identifying unintuitive solutions to tough problems.
• You are analytical and have experience driving business insights and decisions from quantitative and qualitative data.
• You can communicate complex ideas compellingly and simply in both written and verbal communication.
• You are passionate. You are optimistic with a positive energy that other people draw upon.
• You care deeply about developing products and solutions that will create the best experience for our customers.
• You’re an inspiring leader who is excited about the day-to-day of understanding our customers and working with a strong team to build improvements for them.
• You care deeply about developing products and solutions that will create the best experience for our customers.

Salary Range

San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $147,500 - $203,000 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.

Faire’s flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending