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

Faire is hiring a Strategic Legal Programs Lead to help scale the Legal function through its next phase of growth. In this role, you will be the right-hand person and a trusted thought partner to the General Counsel. You’ll own end-to-end programs, translating ambiguity into clear plans, and ensuring Legal’s priorities move forward with speed and discipline. Success in this role requires someone who thrives in complexity, brings strong analytical and project management skills, and can build durable systems that help Legal operate as a proactive, easy-to-work-with partner to the business.

What you’ll do

Drive complex, cross-functional strategic legal initiatives from planning through execution, ensuring clear ownership, on-time delivery, and strong coordination across teams
Serve as a trusted thought partner and force multiplier to the General Counsel, supporting planning, prioritization, and execution across the Legal team
Develop and operationalize metrics, dashboards, and insights that translate Legal work into clear narratives around impact, capacity, risk, and cost
Support Legal’s strategic planning rhythms, including annual and quarterly planning, goal tracking, and initiative prioritization
Embed strong project management practices across the Legal team, identifying opportunities to streamline Legal workflows and execution through better process design, tooling, and operating cadence

Qualifications

5+ years of program / project management experience, including experience on legal, compliance, and/or risk management related projects
Experience in legal operations or paralegal roles is welcome if paired with strong project management and systems-building capabilities
Strong execution and experience managing multiple work-streams with precise attention to detail
Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including comfort working deeply in spreadsheets and synthesizing data into clear insights
Proven experience producing executive-ready materials for senior leaders, including written recommendations and presentations
Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with a collaborative, low-ego working style

Salary Range

San Francisco: the pay range for this role is $158,500 to $218,000 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

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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Strategic Legal Programs Lead

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