Faire
The global online platform empowering independent retail.
Company facts
- Founded
- 2016
- Employees
- 900
- Headquarters
- United States
- CEO
- Max Rhodes
- Type
- Private
About
Faire is an innovative online marketplace that uses machine learning to match local retailers with the brands and products that uniquely fit their stores. We are using the power of technology to connect brands and independent retailers from all over the world, building a thriving community of hundreds of thousands of retailers, which has resulted in over 7 million new connections to date. Faire was founded on the belief that the future of retail is local. Our mission is to empower brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of local communities. Our data-driven approach unburdens retailers from decades-old obstacles by helping find the right products for their shop. Plus, our straight-forward financial terms level the playing field by eliminating inventory risk and providing access to capital—key offerings previously only available to big box chains. For brands, our platform provides powerful sales, marketing, and analytics tools that simplify their business and allow them to focus on what they love: making great products.
Open positions
Staff Product Manager, Search Ranking
Staff Product Manager at Faire, an online wholesale marketplace, owning the product strategy and roadmap for search ranking algorithms — its largest discovery surface. The role works closely with data science and ML platform teams to prioritize ranking improvements, define metrics, and balance near-term wins with foundational investments.
Senior Account Executive Bilingual (German/English)
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…
Staff Data Infrastructure Engineer
Staff engineer who owns Faire's data platform: designing and building the CDC/streaming pipeline from production databases (CockroachDB, MySQL) via Kafka into Iceberg on S3, Snowflake, and Databricks, with data quality checks, SLAs, on-call reliability, and mentoring. A hands-on technical-direction role for the data that analysts and ML depend on.
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Search Ranking
Builds next-generation search ranking algorithms for Faire, a wholesale marketplace: applying deep learning, transformers, graph neural networks, and LLMs to personalize product/brand discovery for retailers. Requires 5+ years shipping large-scale ML models and 3+ years in search, recommendation, or ads ranking.
Growth Platform, Marketing Engineer
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…
Staff Applied AI/ML Scientist
As an Applied AI/ML Scientist tech lead at Faire, you'll own strategy and execution for a two-sided marketplace, developing personalized recommendation, LTV prediction, and causal inference models using machine learning, deep learning, and LLMs, while mentoring scientists and solving marketplace growth/quality challenges.
Senior Sales Development Representative - Bilingual (French/English)
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…
Senior Applied ML/AI Scientist - Search
A Senior Applied ML/AI Scientist at Faire will design and optimize real-time search and recommendation systems for personalized product discovery, leveraging deep learning (transformers, GNNs) and multimodal signals (text, visual) to enhance retailer and user experiences on a global e-commerce wholesale platform.
Senior Applied ML/AI Scientist - Search
Build and improve Faire's search engine using LLMs, vector retrieval, and ranking models to connect retailers with relevant wholesale products, ensuring low-latency, high-precision results.
Senior Applied AI/ML Scientist - Compass
Build and lead an AI-powered retail assistant that helps independent stores discover products using proprietary data, agentic AI, and web search, shipping features end-to-end with high velocity.
Accounting Manager
About Faire Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — there are over 1M independent retailers in the U.S., Canada, and Europe doing more than twice the revenue of Walmart…