Staff Product Manager, FinTech & Ops

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

You will be the product leader for high-impact FinTech & Ops initiatives that drive efficient growth across Faire’s marketplace through financial technology and the enablement of our operational teams. As a Staff PM you’ll own product strategy and delivery for payments and financial infrastructure, decision-making tools and frameworks in the areas of risk, identity and underwriting, customer support, returns and resale flows. You will also look after the shared technology and experimentation infrastructure that ties them together. Your job is explicitly dual-mandate: First, you’ll empower our operational teams to reduce cost by expanding automation while maintaining or improving customer experience. At the same time, you’ll redeploy those gains into growth by improving policies, reducing friction in information collection and deploying human resources towards the most complex cases (capital, curated experiences, high-touch recovery). You will be managing a portfolio of bets, operate at the intersection of finance, ops and CX, run rigorous experiments that trade off efficiency vs. growth and drive high single digit improvements in annualized contribution profit.

What you’ll do

• Own roadmap & outcomes. Define a 6–12 month roadmap balancing efficiency experiments across the portfolio (payment routing, customer support contact rate reduction, Identity auto-decisioning, returns economics) with growth investments (capital pilots, curated onboarding, premium phone support) and platform investments to make our operational teams more effective at self- serving during iteration. You’ll be accountable for high single digit % Contribution Profit uplift.
• Design and run experiments. Lead rigorous A/B, cohort and holdout experiments with pre-specified success criteria that measure CP, CX risk and incremental GMV/LTV.
• Lead decisioning product work. Co-own returns/ markdowns, underwriting and IDV policy design, payment routing rules, limit adjustments. Deliver low- latency decision APIs, deterministic rulesets + ML integrations, and recoverability controls. 
• Improve payment economics. Execute multi-provider routing and adoption of lower-cost payment rails (e.g., bank transfers) to reduce fees and free-up margin for growth investments.
• Expand self-solve modalities in support. Reduce contact rate without harming customer satisfaction by expanding the availability and effectiveness of our virtual assistant for customer support. Empower operational teams to drive iteration and improvement with limited engineering bandwidth.
• Scale returns & resale economics. Redesign and implement improved returns policies, partner on liquidation/resale flows, and recover margin to fund growth.
• Be the voice of tradeoffs. Use a documented rubric to decide when to automate vs. invest in human-driven growth; when to build vs buy technology; where to invest across the portfolio; how to manage growth vs efficiency investments. present tradeoffs and data-driven recommendations to senior leadership.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Management

• Collaborate across a broad base of senior stakeholders across key operational and product teams: Finance (payment economics, capital funding), Risk & Legal (underwriting guardrails, compliance, identity verification), CX (virtual assistant quality and adoption), Operations & Fulfillment (returns/resale flows), Engineering & Data Science (platform, models, instrumentation), Design/ UX (user experiences around contacting operational teams, self solving and inputting key information), Product Marketing (capital rollouts, customer touchpoints).
• Empower operational teams to drive impact in their respective areas through systems that allow them to iterate on launches without needing consistent support from the product development organization
• Represent the product development organization in key operational forums across the company (e.g. reserve setting meeting, Operations business reviews).

Qualifications and CompetenciesRequired

• Experience: 8+ years product management experience; prior Staff or equivalent senior PM experience preferred.
• Domain: Demonstrated experience on marketplace products and financial technology (payment processors, routing strategies, merchant economics, or customer/merchant capital programs).
• Operational focus: Demonstrated track record of excelling in working with operational teams such as finance, payments, underwriting/IDV, risk/recovery or operations products - both as users and partners.
• Analytical excellence: Deep comfort with experiment design (A/B, holdouts), causal inference, cohort analysis, and metric attribution; ability to translate analysis into product decisions.
• Cross-functional leadership: Proven ability to lead complex, cross-org initiatives and influence senior stakeholders (Finance, Risk, Legal, CX, Ops, Eng).
• Outcome orientation: Track record of shipping products tied to measurable business outcomes (contribution profit, GMV, LTV, cost-to-serve).
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Track record of partnering effectively with Design, Research, Data, and Engineering to bring elegant, performant solutions to market.
• Customer Centricity: Passionate about understanding user needs, behaviors, and decision-making processes to design products that create measurable customer and business value.
• Influence & Communication: Exceptional communicator and collaborator, able to influence across technical and creative disciplines and align diverse stakeholders from peers to executives around a shared vision.

Preferred

• Portfolio management: Experience managing and prioritizing across portfolios of different products.
• Machine learning / automation: Experience with machine learning/ artificial intelligence.
• Warehousing experience: Familiarity with B2B marketplace flows, returns/resale flows, or logistics.

Salary Range

San Francisco, CA: the pay range for this role is $215,500 - 296,500 per year. 

This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors, including transferable skills, work experience, market demand, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.

Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting. 

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. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs.  To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form))

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