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Requirements found
Marketing (must) Sales Excel (must)
What this posting asks for
Level: Manager — The title says "Manager".
Main responsibilities
- Set the strategy for brand success. Deeply understand which behaviors make brands successful on Faire, what blocks brands from adopting them, and where guida…
- Own the brand success roadmap end-to-end. Define strategy and sequencing across rebuilding key systems, shipping contextual nudges, and deep-diving into top …
- Go deep on the highest-value actions. Understand blockers, build education and reasons to believe, determine contextual moments to target, and make each acti…
- Build the targeting and triggering system. Estimate the LTV impact of each action, rank each brand's personalized top opportunities, and fire on the behavior…
- Own the growth hub and rationalize our nudge systems. Give brands a single place to see what is limiting their growth and their top actions, and consolidate …
- Partner with GTM. Work with Success, Marketing, and Sales to learn what works in the human-led motion, bring it into product, and ensure our account managers…
Competencies an interviewer will look for
- Ownership and accountability Core
In the posting: “Independent retailers around the globe collectively represent a multi-hundred-billion-dollar wholesale market that has historically been fragmented and offline.” · “Own the brand success roadmap end-to-end.” · “Own the growth hub and rationalize our nudge systems.”
Show it by: Takes a task from start to finish without being chased; Owns a mistake and what was changed after it. - Customer focus Core
In the posting: “You are good at deeply understanding customer needs and underlying motivations, especially in spaces where customers aren't great at predicting how changes w…” · “You're an inspiring leader who is excited about the day-to-day of understanding our customers and working with a strong team to build improvements for them.” · “You care deeply about developing products and solutions that will create the best experience for our customers.”
Show it by: Puts the customer's need in their own words; Shows a result for the customer, not only for the company. - Data and analysis Core
In the posting: “At Faire, we're using the power of tech, data, and machine learning to connect this thriving community of entrepreneurs across the globe.” · “With the right tools and insights, we believe that we can level the playing field so businesses can grow and local communities can thrive.” · “You define the right metrics, design experiments, and know the difference between adoption you caused and adoption that would have happened anyway.”
Show it by: Uses a number to describe the situation or the result; Explains what the data showed and what was done with it. - Adaptability and learning Core
In the posting: “You have set direction in an ambiguous space, not just executed a roadmap you inherited.” · “You're an extraordinarily fast learner.” · “You have the natural curiosity and intellectual horsepower to deeply understand new topics and pick up new skills in a very short time.”
Show it by: Describes learning something new quickly and using it; Shows a change of plan and how they adjusted. - Stakeholder management Core
In the posting: “Define a long-term OS between the teams, and drive alignment on the type of actions that belong in-product vs.” · “You've aligned other product teams and go-to-market partners on shared systems.” · “We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequ…”
Show it by: Shows how they aligned people with different goals; Explains how they handled a 'no' from someone senior. - Technical skill Core
In the posting: “You excel at identifying unintuitive solutions to tough problems.” · “Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square.”
Show it by: Names the tools, languages or systems used and how; Explains a technical choice and its trade-off. - Communication Core
In the posting: “Your job is to build a system that can score a brand’s shop, measure the value of potential actions, identify the top opportunities, and communicate those to…” · “You can decide what's worth working on and explain why.”
Show it by: Adapts the message to the listener; Gives an example of explaining something clearly in writing or speech. - Teamwork and collaboration Core
In the posting: “You’ll work closely with the pods that built the programs to deeply understand the mechanics and the adoption blockers, and with our Success, Product Marketi…” · “Partner with GTM.”
Show it by: Says what they did inside a team, not only what 'we' did; Shows how a disagreement was handled. - Planning and organisation Core
In the posting: “Give brands a single place to see what is limiting their growth and their top actions, and consolidate today's banners, emails and in-portal prompts into one…” · “Employer-sponsored retirement plan, dependent on country of employment”
Show it by: Shows how priorities were set when everything was urgent; Mentions deadlines met and how. - Leadership and mentoring Supporting
In the posting: “Mental health support and coaching through Modern Health”
Show it by: Describes setting direction or a standard others followed; Names someone they coached and what changed for them.
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Practice questions
- Tell me about yourself. Dedicated step-by-step practice.
- If an interviewer asks something improper How to respond to questions about age, family, origin or health.
- Built from this posting (7):
- Tell me about a task you took from start to finish without anyone asking you to. From this posting
- Describe a time you went out of your way to solve a customer's problem. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you used data or numbers to make a decision. From this posting
- Describe a time your plans changed suddenly. How did you adjust? From this posting
- How have you used marketing in your work? Walk me through one real example. From this posting
- Tell me about a problem you solved using excel. From this posting
- Tell me about a time you helped someone on your team get better at their work. From this posting
- This posting reads as Product management: its questions come first.
- Tell me about a product decision you made based on what users told you. Product management
- You have ten feature requests and capacity for three. How do you choose? Product management
- Describe a time you had to say no to a senior stakeholder. Product management
- How do you decide whether a feature you launched worked? Product management
- Tell me about a launch that involved several teams. What was your role? Product management
- A key feature is late and the launch date is fixed. What do you do? Product management
- How do you write requirements so that engineers and designers build the right thing? Product management
- Tell me about a product failure you were responsible for. Product management
- How have you used spreadsheets in your work?
- Tell me about a sale or agreement you are proud of.
- Describe a time you handled an upset customer or colleague.
- Tell me about a time you had several deadlines at once. How did you decide what to do first?
- Give an example of a mistake you caught before it caused a problem.
- Tell me about a time you taught someone how to do something.
- Describe a time you took the lead without being asked.
- Tell me about a time you had to explain something complicated in simple terms.
- Describe a process you improved.
- Do you have any questions for us?
- Why do you want to work here?
- Why is there a gap in your employment? Difficult question
- Why did you leave your last job? Difficult question
- Why are you changing careers? Difficult question
- What is your greatest weakness? Difficult question
- What are your salary expectations? Difficult question
- You seem overqualified for this role. Why do you want it? Difficult question
- Improper-question practice: How old are you? / Do you have children? / Where are you from originally?
- A customer is angry about a delay you did not cause. What do you do?
- How do you keep track of many open customer requests?
- Tell me about a time you could not give a customer what they wanted.
- You find that the inventory count does not match the system. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time a shipment or delivery went wrong.
- How do you make sure safety rules are followed on a busy shift?
- Two managers ask you to book the same room at the same time. What do you do?
- Tell me about a time you had to enter or check a lot of data accurately.
- A prospect says your price is too high. How do you respond?
- How do you keep your pipeline organised?
- Tell me about a technical problem you solved on your own.
- You find a bug right before a release. What do you do?
- Walk me through how you would check whether a report's numbers are right.