Talent Brand Manager

San Francisco, CA (Hybrid)

$148K/yr – $204K/yrSenior Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 3 hrs ago

Job Summary

Drive Faire’s talent brand and employer value across channels, turning narratives into scalable tools and AI-enabled assets that attract diverse talent.

  • Architect and tell authentic employer stories across Engineering, Product, Design, and Data teams.
  • Build self-serve talent-brand tools and measure impact.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Architect our employer value proposition: Define a compelling "why Faire, why now" narrative tailored for key hiring areas, beginning with our Engineering, Product, Design, and Data teams. Highlighting the broad range of backgrounds of the retailers and brands we serve, so the workforce we build increasingly reflects the diversity and vibrancy of our customers.
  • Create a unified digital footprint: Orchestrate high-impact campaigns across LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and our careers site to ensure a consistent talent brand backed by measurable performance indicators.
  • Establish Answer Engine Optimization: Develop an AEO framework to ensure Faire’s culture and opportunities are accurately and prominently represented within LLMs.
  • Champion the talent brand identity: Act as a steward for our voice, ensuring every job description and candidate touchpoint aligns perfectly with Faire’s established brand guidelines.
  • Scalable storytelling: Establish a repeatable engine for surfacing authentic stories from our leaders and employees that showcase our values, incredible internal mobility stories, and give a real glimpse into life at Faire.
  • Empower the front line: Create a comprehensive self-serve toolkit for recruiters and hiring managers, including audience-specific positioning and narrative-driven objection handling.
  • Build AI-powered enablers: Launch internal tools that leverage AI to help every Faire employee transform their personal experiences into polished, social-ready content.
  • Measure and iterate: Rigorously track candidate sentiment and conversion data to evaluate the effectiveness of our talent brand investments on hiring success.
  • Collaborate cross-functionally: Work closely with Marketing and Comms partners to ensure a seamless integration of our employer brand across the business.

Requirements

  • 5+ years building employer brand, talent marketing, or recruitment marketing programs, ideally from the ground up
  • Experience running a cohesive brand strategy across owned and earned digital channels: careers site, LinkedIn, social, and Glassdoor
  • Comfortable building self-serve, custom AI tools for individual and team use, and applying them to drive productivity and scale
  • Understands how AI-driven search and answer engines (AEO/GEO) shape how a brand's content surfaces, and wants to build that muscle for talent brand
  • Exceptional writer and editor, able to turn complex, cross-functional work into a story people remember
  • Experience building recruiter enablement materials, including objection-handling content
  • Uses data (candidate feedback, funnel metrics, brand perception) to prioritize what to build and prove it worked
  • Strong cross-functional partner, with experience working across Recruiting, Marketing, Comms, and People teams to ship projects
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Faire

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Faire is the wholesale marketplace empowering brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of local communities.

Founded in 2017
San Francisco, California, USA
1.5K employees (172 in marketing)
73% recommend to a friend
86% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$148K/yr – $204K/yr

Taken straight from the job posting.

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Funding

Total Funding
$1.7B
Last Raise
$416M
Secondary Market, 4 months ago

Funding History

  • Nov 2025
    Secondary Market
  • Sep 2023
    Corporate Round
  • May 2022
    Series G • $416M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
7M
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$84.5K
Traffic Source Mix
Search
22.4%
Direct
72.6%
Referral
3.5%
Social
0.9%
Paid
0.5%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~1.5K

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