Strategic Finance Senior Lead (Growth)

Join Faire, a leading online wholesale marketplace, as a Strategic Finance Senior Lead. In this role, you will be the primary finance partner for two key growth engines: international expansion and retailer growth. You will identify growth opportunities, build frameworks for real-time visibility into performance, and proactively identify risks and opportunities. This position requires strong analytical skills, the ability to work cross-functionally, and a deep understanding of strategic finance.

• Identifying and prioritizing growth opportunities across international markets and retailer acquisition channels.
• Building frameworks and infrastructure to provide leadership with real-time visibility into growth performance.
• Collaborating cross-functionally to understand and track execution plans against growth goals.
• In or adjacent to the brand → retailer → consumer ecosystem, ideally from a small-business enablement perspective
• Analytical rigor: synthesizes information, decomposes problems, and uses data and logic to diagnose root causes and quantify trade-offs. Comfortable going deep on unit economics (CAC, LTV, ROI, payback) without losing the thread on the most important strategic questions
• Comfortable with ambiguity and long-horizon analysis — energized by open-ended, forward-looking questions and a get-things-done mindset, resourceful and willing to roll up sleeves to move forward tactically
• Portfolio-level synthesis: able to zoom out across multiple channels and markets, connect the dots, and form a clear, high-conviction point of view on where the biggest consolidated growth opportunities lie
• Bachelor's degree and 7+ years work experience in strategic finance (preferred), private equity / venture capital, investment banking, and/or management consulting
• Systems thinker: builds frameworks and financial infrastructure from scratch, not just runs existing models. Comfortable creating the reporting and telemetry that turns raw data into a decision-ready narrative
• AI-forward working style: actively experiments with AI tools to accelerate and sharpen analytical work — automating rote tasks, pressure-testing assumptions, and generating faster first drafts of complex analyses
• At a two-sided marketplace or platform business where growth is driven by network effects and supply–demand dynamics between distinct buyer and seller audiences
• Cross-functional partner: track record building trust and alignment across Product, GTM, Business Development, and Analytics; organized with strong deadline management across concurrent workstreams
• Excellent communication: credible, structured storytelling for executives and cross-functional partners; able to zoom in and zoom out between the details and the key takeaway narrative, and earn strategic access through the quality of insight rather than authority
• Partnering with go-to-market or growth teams — structuring and evaluating incentive programs, acquisition investments, and the payback economics that determine where and how to deploy capital
• SQL or comparable data proficiency to pull and manipulate analyses without relying on partners for access to the information required for analysis or financial models
• In international / multi-market expansion, with a feel for how market maturity curves and regional dynamics shape growth strategy