The setting
runs an online wholesale marketplace that connects independent retailers with small brands and suppliers. is the side where product brands sell wholesale to retailers, from onboarding and listings to fulfillment and payouts.
Retargeting needs faster next-test decisions without turning spend choices over to a recommendation.
Retailer re-engagement calls for sharper experiments, while attribution evidence must remain strong enough to defend each spend decision.
Who you’d be doing this for
“My retailer list keeps asking what happened after that first order, and I’ve got no useful answer.”
Manuela Ferreira · Wholesale Sales Manager · a character in this brief
Runs retailer acquisition and repeat-order growth for a consumer-product brand selling through the marketplace.
What is at stake
Retailers who placed a first order are not returning despite follow-up ads. You must decide where the system's proposed test stops and the strategist's choice of audience, message or offer begins.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- test volume vs attribution clarity
- retailer relevance vs channel-level signals
- expected movement vs evidence limits
- repeat-order growth vs paid efficiency
Why Faire
Brand growth tools depend on helping wholesale sales managers bring retailers back for repeat marketplace orders.
Written with these in mind
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Where the organization context comes fromThe postings this brief was written from, and the reporting read before it.
The organization context comes from public information. The situation and characters are written for the brief.
Job postings it was written from
Public descriptions of the work at Faire. They are listed as sources, not as openings. The lines under a posting are its own words, where it meets this brief.
- Senior Product Marketing Manager (opens in a new tab)
- Spend real time with customers and bring their POV into strategic conversations.
- PMMs partner closely with Product, Design, Marketing, and Revenue to shape programs from the ground up, develop positioning and messaging, lead GTM strategy, and drive awareness and adoption.
- Head of Paid Marketing (opens in a new tab)
- Build a best-in-class retargeting/remarketing program to drive incremental marketplace GMV and re-engage lapsed retailers and brands
- Own and scale global paid acquisition across both sides of the marketplace (retailers and brands) to $xxM annually while hitting target payback/efficiency thresholds; act as the primary executive stakeholder for paid performance
This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.
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