Staff Data Scientist, Faire

Search

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SQL
Elasticsearch
Semantic
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada
Faire

Online wholesale marketplace

Job no longer available

Faire

Online wholesale marketplace

1001+ employees

RetailB2BMarketplaceSustainabilityConsumer GoodseCommerce

Job no longer available

Salary not provided
SQL
Elasticsearch
Semantic
Mid and Senior level
Remote in Canada

1001+ employees

RetailB2BMarketplaceSustainabilityConsumer GoodseCommerce

Company mission

To empower entrepreneurs around the world to chase their dreams.

Role

Who you are

  • 3+ years of industry experience using machine learning to solve real-world problems
  • Experience with search/query processing for product development
  • Experience with traditional, semantic, and hybrid search frameworks (e.g. Elasticsearch,
  • Solr, FAISS)
  • Strong programming skills
  • An excitement and willingness to learn new tools and techniques
  • Experience with relational databases and SQL
  • The ability to contribute to team strategy and to lead model development without supervision
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work with others in a closely collaborative team environment

Desirable

  • Highly recommended: Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, Statistics, or related STEM fields
  • Ability to quickly implement state of the art algorithms from an academic paper
  • Previous experience on graph neural network and/or language models and deep learning models

What the job involves

  • As a member of Search for the Data Science team you’ll be responsible for developing machine learning-powered search ranking models and adding personalization to our search and discovery
  • You’ll determine answers to questions like, how relevant is this product to this retailer and how can we infer that in real-time? Can we create real-time embeddings of users' interests and use them to power rankings? How can we improve purchase flow? What techniques can we use to enable our A/B tests to more quickly converge when dealing with low sample sizes?
  • Our team already includes experienced Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers from Uber, Airbnb, Square, Facebook, and Pinterest. Faire will soon be known as a top destination for data scientists and machine learning, and you will help take us there!
  • You’ll be able to work on cutting-edge search query and understanding problems combining a wide variety of data about our retailers, brands and products
  • You want to use machine learning to help local retailers and independent brands succeed
  • You want to be a foundational team member of a fast growing company
  • You like to solve challenging problems related to a two-sided marketplace

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

Faire is a company that helps retailers find and buy wholesale merchandise for their stores, pairing independent brands with retailers. The company connects two million retailers globally to tens of thousands of brands across the globe.

In addition to a large catalog, the company attracts smaller retailers by offering net 60-day terms and free returns to boost confident buying at unpredictable times. Faire has seen impressive growth, reporting 300% year-on-year volume growth and a valuation of over $12.6B following its most recent tranche of funding from Shopify.

This investment is funding its continuing expansion into European and Australian markets, while accelerating product development, focusing on its OS for wholesale. It is also hiring talent globally as it takes aim at becoming a kind of Amazon for local and indie brands that want to sell globally.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

109% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Opportunities to learn

"I joined Faire over a month ago and the onboarding has been very comprehensive including some additional material that has been extremely helpful..."

Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)

May 2022

$416m

SERIES G

Nov 2021

$400m

SERIES G

Total funding: $1.5bn

Company benefits

  • Comprehensive healthcare
  • All of our offices have been designed with local in mind—from our architects to our coffee blends
  • Paid vacation time, holidays, and company-wide “Faire Fundays.”
  • Including a monthly credit toward your wellness-related programs
  • Generous parental and family leave, as well as fertility support benefits
  • Including free access to Modern Health therapists and resources
  • Optional morning meditation, plus a free Headspace membership
  • Faire will match up to US$250 of your charitable donations, every year
  • For personal and professional development, as well as unlimited access to training courses through LinkedIn Learning
  • Whether you want to grow as a leader, hone your craft, or explore a new discipline, our career framework allows space for you to explore

Company values

  • We serve our community
  • We seek the truth
  • We’re all owners
  • We embrace the adventure
  • We’re kind

Founders

Was previously an Advisor at Blunt Umbrellas and Director of Consumer Product at Square.

Former Director of Security and Risk Engineering at Square, prior to co-founding Faire.

Previously a Senior Software Engineer at Google. Before that, co-founded FreePoint Inc.

Was Operations Lead at Square. Before that was a Business Analust for McKinsey and Co.

Diversity & Inclusion at Faire

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Clarence Sanon (Engagement and Inclusion Manager)

  • We have internal structures and mechanisms that acknowledge and counteract organizational bias while ensuring equitable opportunity across the organization.
  • Our teams are balanced across demographic backgrounds and identities, ensuring equity at all levels of the organization and ensuring a region-specific nuance
  • Faire Femmes: Our mission is to build a space that is inclusive, safe, and empowering for those who identify as women to succeed
  • HUE: Our mission is to create a safe space where folks of colour can feel comfortable being themselves and talk to folks who get it. We want HUE members to feel confident expressing themselves, their culture, and their heritage
  • Flaire: Our mission is to empower all Faire employees to express their whole selves at work, and to make Faire an inclusive environment for all members of the LGBTQ+ community
  • ​​Fairents: Our mission is to cultivate Faire into a company where working parents can thrive in their professional ambitions, maximize their impact supporting Faire business goals, and be successful in their pursuit of rewarding & fulfilling journeys as parents
  • We have employee resource groups (ERGs) and a cross-functional Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Council (DEIB) at Faire. The DEIB Council works in collaboration with other functions to ensure integration and consideration of DEIB in policies, programs, products, and processes

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