Strategic Finance Senior Lead

About the role

We are looking for a Strategic Finance Senior Lead to be the portfolio-level finance partner for two of Faire's most important new-customer growth engines: International expansion and Retailer Growth (R&D Product led and acquisition across our channel portfolio).

This role exists to identify where the biggest consolidated growth opportunities lie, build the telemetry and frameworks that give leadership real-time visibility into what is driving and threatening growth, and see around corners on the structural risks and opportunities that don't yet show up in the quarterly numbers.

Responsibilities

• Drive topline growth forecasting for some of Faire's biggest growth bets (i.e. International expansion).
• Own the understanding and communication of forecast assumptions with leadership.
• Work cross-functionally to translate how the product roadmap will impact projected results.
• Own the portfolio narrative. Communicate the financial story of growth performance to senior leadership.
• Identify the strongest growth bets. Understand consolidated growth potential across international markets and retailer acquisition channels, translate that into investment trade-offs, and surface specific high-conviction bets — helping leadership prioritize which markets, motions, or investments deserve the next dollar (e.g. new markets, new segments, channel investments).
• Create the growth performance management and forecasting infrastructure and frameworks that give leadership real-time, credible visibility into performance.
• See around corners. Proactively identify structural, system-wide opportunities and risks before they surface in the numbers. This is the early-warning and opportunity-scanning function for the growth portfolio.
• Partner cross-functionally with the teams driving growth (Retailer Growth, International, Brand Growth, Business Development) to develop, understand, and track execution plans against goals.

Qualifications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Cross-functional partner: track record building trust and alignment across Product, GTM, Business Development, and Analytics; organized with strong deadline management across concurrent workstreams.
• 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.

Nice to have

• Work experience: 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.
• 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.
• International / multi-market expansion, with a feel for how market maturity curves and regional dynamics shape growth strategy.
• Brand → retailer → consumer ecosystem, ideally from a small-business enablement perspective.
• 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.