Head of Paid Marketing

About Faire

Faire is a technology wholesale platform built on the belief that the future is local. Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline. 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 businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.

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

We are looking for a Head of Paid Marketing to drive efficient customer acquisition and retargeting at scale, in service of Faire's ambitious global growth goals on both sides of the retailer and brand marketplace. This is a hands-on leadership role: you will own the strategy, budget, and measurement for all of Faire's paid channels (including search, social, affiliates, display, audio/podcasts, video/CTV), act as the primary executive stakeholder for paid performance, and lead a dedicated team of paid marketers. The ideal candidate is a data-driven operator who has scaled 8-9 figure paid budgets in a two-sided marketplace or in support of small business owners, has hired and led high-performing, AI-native growth marketing teams, and is fluent in modern measurement/attribution methodology.

What you'll do

• Own and scale global paid acquisition across both sides of the marketplace (retailers and brands) to $xxM annually while hitting target payback/efficiency thresholds; act as the primary executive stakeholder for paid performance
• Define and communicate paid's long-term strategic roadmap to executive stakeholders, and build a resourcing and investment framework to address key risks such as channel consolidation, global competition, customer TAM, and brand awareness
• Build a best-in-class retargeting/remarketing program to drive incremental marketplace GMV and re-engage lapsed retailers and brands
• Diversify the paid channel mix by testing and scaling new channels beyond today's core, with clear incrementality evidence and Finance & Strategy alignment
• Build the measurement and attribution infrastructure (incrementality testing, MMM, multi-touch attribution) needed to make confident investment decisions in upper-funnel and brand media
• Hire, coach, and retain a paid marketing team recognized as best-in-class; establish AI practices — including self-serve workflows — that transform and automate our core paid marketing processes to compound experimentation velocity and decision quality
• Partner closely with Creative and Product leads to build a high-velocity A/B testing process spanning creative messaging, customer needs, and user segmentation into a unified experimentation roadmap
• Partner with Engineering leadership to harden the data pipelines paid depends on (tracking, tagging, feeds, attribution); audit and onboard external vendors/agencies that strengthen the MarTech stack and unblock team velocity

Qualifications

• 12+ years of experience in performance/paid marketing, with deep, hands-on expertise across paid search, paid social, affiliates, display, and CTV/video
• Track record scaling paid acquisition budgets (8-9 figures annually) while hitting efficiency/payback targets in a fast-growing company
• Superb written and oral communication skills; able to represent performance, risk, and opportunity crisply to senior leadership
• Proven track record partnering with creative and product teams to build a high-velocity, A/B testing culture across core and experimental channels
• Proven people leader who has hired, developed, and scaled a high-performing paid marketing team; comfortable operating as both strategic leader and hands-on operator
• Fluent in measurement/attribution methodology (incrementality testing, MMM, multi-touch attribution) and comfortable partnering with data science/analytics on experiment design
• Experience using AI to automate and scale paid marketing testing and operations (e.g., creative testing, audience testing, bidding signal testing, keyword signal testing) — treats this as how the team runs day-to-day, not a nice-to-have
• Experience evaluating, onboarding, and managing external MarTech vendors or agencies
• Exemplary budget ownership, with strong partnership with Finance teams to define forecasting and performance narrative across multiple channels and audience segments
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity in a fast-growing, evolving organization
• Excited and authentically motivated by Faire's mission
• Genuine, empathetic, humble, and kind team player and cross-functional collaborator

Bonus points

• Experience leading brand awareness or upper-funnel campaigns, comfortable making the case for expanded investment with senior stakeholders
• Experience in two-sided marketplaces or with products aimed at small business owners
• Experience leading international/global paid marketing at a public company
• Strong opinions on creative messaging and brand aesthetic; opinionated about when to use AI for creative experimentation in paid contexts
• Experience partnering with Engineering to harden data pipelines and tracking infrastructure that paid marketing depends on

Salary Range

San Francisco : the pay range for this role is $248,000 to $341,000 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.

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

• Move fast: You'll own meaningful problems that serve customers around the globe with the agency to move fast and see your results clearly.
• Equipped to scale: We invest in what matters, including the latest enterprise AI tools, to help you work smarter and get more out of every day.
• Best in class: Our team is full of sharp, kind, and generous colleagues who care about their craft and about helping you grow in yours.
• Real rewards. Competitive pay, equity, and comprehensive benefits designed to support your life inside and outside of work.
• Belonging: We're intentional about building an environment where every Faire employee has equal access to opportunities, growth, and success.

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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