About Faire
Faire is an online wholesale marketplace built on the belief that the future is local — independent retailers around the globe are doing more revenue than Walmart and Amazon combined, but individually, they are small compared to these massive entities. 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 that small businesses everywhere can compete with these big box and e-commerce giants.
By supporting the growth of independent businesses, Faire is driving positive economic impact in local communities, globally. 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's quality, depth, and breadth of brands is its strongest value to retailers. Our Brand Partnerships team is at the forefront of Faire's success, ensuring that the best and most relevant brands join and thrive on our platform.
This is not a role for someone looking to learn the ropes. This is a role for someone who has already mastered them. As a Senior Account Executive (L3), you will be a trusted advisor to Upmarket brands across Central & Northern Europe, helping them unlock wholesale growth on Faire and driving incremental GMV at scale.
This role is a blend of strategic thinking and high-velocity sales execution. You will own a complex, high-value portfolio of brands across your geos, proactively identifying and activating the best-fit brands for Faire. You bring a strong commercial mindset — comfortable from C-level to operational stakeholder — and you use AI, data, and sharp instincts to outperform.
We are looking for a stellar performer: someone who has finished top 3 in their org, qualified for President's Club or All-Stars, and is hungry to do it again in a market that is genuinely early and genuinely exciting.
You're excited about this opportunity because...
- You have been top of the leaderboard before and you want to do it in a market that isn't fully built yet — where your territory becomes the foundation others inherit
- You are energised by fast-moving, ambiguous environments and see AI as a genuine force multiplier, not a buzzword
- You want to sell something that actually matters — levelling the playing field for independent retailers against e-commerce and big-box giants is a mission you can get behind
- You want to work alongside a tight-knit team of high performers who share wins loudly, debug losses together, and hold themselves to a standard most sales teams only talk about
- You are curious by default — you dig until you understand, and you bring that intellectual rigour to every deal
What You'll Do
Identify and win the right opportunities
- Manage a high-value book of business across Central & Northern Europe with the goal of maximising the incremental GMV that new Upmarket brands bring to the Faire platform
- Set your own sub-targets, hold yourself accountable, and know exactly what levers to pull when performance is under pressure
- Use business data, category insights, AI-powered tooling, and your own market knowledge to build a pipeline that is both high volume and high quality
- Support new brands through their first quarter on Faire — ensuring they understand the platform and are set up to receive orders and grow
Lead a best-in-class upmarket sales cycle
- Lead every customer interaction with a personalised, insight-led approach — understanding each brand's unique business and shaping Faire's value proposition to their specific problems
- Navigate multi-threaded deals with confidence: from C-suite vision conversations to operational onboarding with sales and marketing teams
- Develop tailored onboarding plans that balance near-term activation with long-term platform success
- Make independent, well-reasoned decisions on when to advance a deal and when to pass — and own the outcome either way
- Stay resilient and input-focused when performance is challenging; model the standard for the team
Be the expert on your markets
- Be solution-oriented to common objections and geo-specific blockers — size the opportunity, identify what's needed, and act on it with product and leadership
- Understand how competitors and industry players operate and articulate Faire's key differentiators with precision
- Research trends, industry events, and key account signals across Central & Northern Europe — and bring that intelligence back to sharpen team strategy
Represent Faire across the wholesale industry
- Drive Faire's value props and messaging across the full sales surface: outreach, nurture, tradeshows, events, and in-person brand visits
- Identify and pursue new business opportunities that drive incremental revenue for the platform
- Develop content and host webinars to engage leads in your verticals and share onboarding best practices
- Collaborate with marketing to shape top-of-funnel messaging across paid, web, and nurture channels
What we're looking for
Must haves
- Proven track record of exceeding quota at upmarket level — top 3 in your org, President's Club / All-Stars qualifier
- High-velocity pipeline engine: ability to run multiple complex Upmarket deals simultaneously without sacrificing quality
- Sharp executive presence — comfortable operating from C-level to operational stakeholder
- AI fluency: you use AI tools daily to prospect, prep, and accelerate — not as a talking point but as a genuine lever
- Intellectual curiosity — you ask better questions, dig deeper, and find the unlock others miss
- Mission alignment: you believe in independent retail and can articulate why Faire matters
- Fluency in English; additional European languages a strong plus
Nice to haves
- DACH market experience or German Speaker
- Any other European language skills
- Background in wholesale, retail, or brand partnerships
- Experience with Salesforce, Clay, or AI sales tooling
Salary Range
London, UK: the pay range for this role is £58,175 to £79,950 per year.
This role will also be eligible for equity and benefits. Actual base pay will be determined based on permissible factors such as transferable skills, work experience, market demands, and primary work location. The base pay range provided is subject to change and may be modified in the future.
Hybrid Faire employees currently go into the office 3 days per week on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and a third flex day of their choosing (Monday, Wednesday, or Friday). Additionally, hybrid in-office roles will have the flexibility to work remotely up to 4 weeks per year. Specific Workplace and Information Technology positions may require onsite attendance 5 days per week as will be indicated in the job posting.
Why you’ll love working at Faire
- We are entrepreneurs: Faire is being built for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. We believe entrepreneurship is a calling and our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to chase their dreams. Every member of our team is taking part in the founding process.
- We are using technology and data to level the playing field: We are leveraging the power of product innovation and machine learning to connect brands and boutiques from all over the world, building a growing community of more than 350,000 small business owners.
- We build products our customers love: Everything we do is ultimately in the service of helping our customers grow their business because our goal is to grow the pie - not steal a piece from it. Running a small business is hard work, but using Faire makes it easy.
- We are curious and resourceful: Inquisitive by default, we explore every possibility, test every assumption, and develop creative solutions to the challenges at hand. We lead with curiosity and data in our decision making, and reason from a first principles mentality.
Faire was founded in 2017 by a team of early product and engineering leads from Square. We’re backed by some of the top investors in retail and tech including: Y Combinator, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Forerunner Ventures, Khosla Ventures, Sequoia Capital, Founders Fund, and DST Global. We have headquarters in San Francisco and Kitchener-Waterloo, and a global employee presence across offices in Toronto, London, and New York. To learn more about Faire and our customers, you can read more on our blog.
Faire provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.
Faire is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. Accommodations are available throughout the recruitment process and applicants with a disability may request to be accommodated throughout the recruitment process. We will work with all applicants to accommodate their individual accessibility needs. To request reasonable accommodation, please fill out our Accommodation Request Form (https://bit.ly/faire-form)
Privacy
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