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
Faire leverages the power of machine learning and data insights to revolutionize the wholesale industry, enabling local retailers to compete against giants like Amazon and big box stores. Our highly skilled team of Applied AI/ML Scientists specialize in developing algorithmic solutions for recommender systems, spend optimization, lifetime value (LTV) predictions, and much more. Our ultimate goal is to empower local retail businesses with the tools they need to succeed.
At Faire, the Data team is responsible for creating and maintaining a diverse range of algorithms and models that power our marketplace. We are dedicated to building machine learning models that help our customers thrive.
As an Applied AI/ML Scientist tech lead, you will own vision, strategy, and execution for a set of problems that power Faire's two-sided marketplace, connecting hundreds of thousands of independent brands and retailers. Because our users are businesses, there is a wealth of information about them that ML models can use to personalize their experience, grow their success, and keep the marketplace high quality and trustworthy. You will work across structured and unstructured data using methods that range from personalization and recommendations to causal inference, lifetime-value modeling, information extraction, and LLMs. You will act as a lead across multiple cross-functional workstreams and mentor or manage other scientists on the team.
Our team already includes experienced Data Scientists from Uber, Airbnb, Square, Facebook, and Pinterest. Faire will soon be known as a top destination for Applied AI/ML Scientists, and you will help take us there!
What you’ll do
• Drive data science vision, strategy, and execution end-to-end, and act as a pod lead across cross-functional workstreams.
• Develop personalized recommendation, retrieval, and ranking models, and build content and retailer-level embeddings to power better discovery and exploration experiences.
• Optimize marketing, acquisition, and incentive spend through targeting and personalization, and use experimentation and causal inference to measure the effectiveness of spend lever