About this role
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:
Our Engineering organization owns the software that makes our marketplace work. The Platform group empowers teams across Faire: Product Engineering, Data Science, Product Management, Strategy, Analytics, Finance, etc. Enabling these functions to do their best work without concern about underlying infrastructure. We enable product engineering teams to build and operate software with unmatched speed and quality. We care about good engineering practices, excellent developer experience, security, testability, ease of maintenance, and scaling to serve millions of users. We value best practices to achieve excellent availability and performance.
This role is for a highly experienced technical leader specializing in experimentation infrastructure.
This role will influence and interact with all users of experiments functionality at Faire. From product teams and associated analytics engineering, to data scientists, Faire’s Strategy and Analytics function, etc. This technical leader will define and execute a technology roadmap and set design and usage patterns in the experimentation space. Striking the right balance of technical leadership and hands-on development.
What you’ll do:
• Define and execute long-term strategy for experimentation and measurement company-wide.
• Establish and develop a technology roadmap for a centralized experimentation platform powered by Eppo and integrated with Faire’s data ecosystem. Including measurement infrastructure, experiment lifecycle, governance, self-service tooling, standards for experiment design, metric creation, result interpretation.
• Partner with Faire’s Strategy and Analytics group, Product Management, Data Science, and other functions who are key consumers of experiments infrastructure.
Qualifications:
Extensive software engineering experience with strong focus on experimentation, analytics infrastructure, and product development. Proficient in defining technical vision for experimentation and leading adoption across organizational boundaries.
• Extensive experience designing, building, and scaling experimentation platforms in SaaS systems; focus on marketplace and e-