Faire is hiring a

Strategic Finance MBA Intern

San Francisco, United States
Internship

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

The Finance and Strategy Team’s mission is to maximize the long-term value of Faire by helping drive optimal investment decisions and by partnering on execution. We work closely with our cross-functional partners and bring a data-driven approach to analyzing business opportunities. We wear several hats at Faire including strategic growth planning, company-wide performance management, and business analytics. 

We are looking for an outstanding MBA intern to tackle strategic, operational, and analytical projects to help drive quality growth. At Faire, you’ll have the chance to lead analyses that will have a meaningful impact on how we understand, forecas, and govern our business. This is an ideal role for someone who is naturally curious and wants to work in a fast-paced, highly collaborative, and data-driven environment.

We're looking for candidates open to working in San Francisco, CA. Our internships are paid and 10-to-12 weeks in duration.

What you’ll do 

  • Lead strategic projects by digging into both internal and external data, developing hypotheses, and executing analyses 
  • Translate data into insights and make recommendations to Faire’s Finance Leadership Team based on your findings 
  • Research industry practices and use Faire-specific context to help Faire improve internal processes
  • Work with Strategic Finance Senior Lead to help advise our early marketplace advertising product team 
  • You will be required to regularly demonstrate the ability to exercise independent discretion in decision-making and problem-solving to make a meaningful impact on the business.

Qualifications

  • Must possess a bachelor's degree
  • You are a currently enrolled MBA student who has 3+ years experience in analytical, financial, or strategic roles 
  • At the start date of the internship, you must be a current MBA student (should not have graduated by May 2024)
  • By the time you start, you will have completed at least six months of coursework
  • You are a team player that wants to win while also having fun with teammates along the way 
  • You have advanced strategic financial knowledge and are able to manipulate large data sets, uncover hidden insights in our data, and meaningfully improve our understanding of our business through this process 
  • You have SQL experience 
  • You are resourceful and not afraid to roll up your sleeves

San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $60-$70 per hour.

Faire’s flexible work model aims to meet the needs of our diverse employee community by making work more flexible, connected, and inclusive. Depending on the role and needs of the team, Faire employees have the flexibility to choose how they work–whether that’s mainly in the office, remotely, or a mix of both. 

Roles that list only a country in the location are eligible for fully remote work in that country or in- office work at a Faire office in that country, provided employees are located in the registered country/province/state. Roles with only a city location are eligible for in-office or hybrid office work in that city. Our talent team will work with candidates to determine what locations and roles are eligible for each option.

Applications for this position will be accepted for a minimum of 30 days from the posting date.

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 Salt Lake City, Atlanta, Toronto, London, New York, LA, and Sao Paulo. 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. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form)

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