Welcome to the first belated issue of Your Next Move. Here I profile jobs at System, Faire, and Catch.
System: ever worked in data at a startup before? There can always be better structure, documentation, and understanding of the underlying data tables, attributes, and metrics that you build. The core of this is understanding how things relate in a system.
It’s really helpful to understand not just if column x
leads to column y
, but also understand exactly how the two relate: do they correlate? what other things impact this relationship? And you'd like to have this knowledge not just for those two columns, but for everything that’s important in the data warehouse and in your business. You want to document and display your business’ relationships.
That’s where System comes in: They believe that there’s a lack of organizing data and knowledge. Hint: there is. And they believe information is best stored and explained in a system.
Join as a Product Manager to help build System. This is one of less restrictive PM job specs - requiring 1+ years of product management experience in the data and analytics space. And I have a feeling that based on the trajectory/experience of people at the company, if you don’t currently have the title of PM but have done tangential work, they might be open to considering you. Yay for being inclusive.
It’s a small team, located in NY but open to remote. It’s led by Adam Bly, who lead the data team at Spotify. Read more about the importance of system information and redesigning the system here. They recently raised a $10m Series A and are backed by Acrew and Lux (Lux is the best deeptech investor and has also backed Roam).
Faire: you’ve heard that Shopify is arming the rebels. Faire is another business that is helping small businesses - i.e. local retail - thrive. It’s a marketplace that helps local businesses in your town try and decide what products to stock. It’s “leveling the playing field” against e-commerce giants.
Join the Product organization as a Product Program Manager on the International team. If you like operations and have a get-shit-done attitude, come to help build processes that scale Faire’s international business. It’s also one of those roles that are open to people in a non-traditional product background. We need more of those, and I truly believe that recruiters have too much of a hard-on for traditional backgrounds. This role is NYC only.
Faire is founded by ex-Square employees, led by Max Rhodes. Learn more about the business from his conversation with Anu Hariharan or Delian Asparouhov’s Operators conversation with Product Lead Olivia Chen. Faire recently raised a $260m round led by Sequoia. HQ in SF with a large engineering team in Canada (I’m very long Waterloo). If you need any more convincing, it’s the top company that Keith Rabois would join.
Catch: another interesting business that’s helping people probably not-like-you-and-me. Catch builds an app that makes benefits for people without benefits, like gig-economy workers or contractors, super easy. They build independent workers a safety net by allowing them to easily set money aside for taxes and retirement or choose health insurance. The product design looks super simple and sleek.
Join Catch as a Financial Operations Associate. Work in finance and want to make a switch to a startup? Ditch your terrible, unhappy 30M boss that hasn’t thought at all about what’s meaningful in life. This role is perfect, and will have high impact and visibility across the company - the team is <20 people. You’ll be one of the first few finance hires.
Catch is led by couple-duo Kristen Anderson (CEO) and Andrew Ambrosino (CTO/CPO). They make tough and high-stakes decisions for the business, like moving the HQ from Boston to NYC or having a baby in the middle of fundraise. I respect that. I also respect Kristen's spicy Twitter takes. They recently raised a $12m Series A led by Crosslink, and have Khosla Ventures as a backer.
Until next time, :peace:!