Director of Analytics

Focalsystems; United States; Remote; USD 160,000 - 182,000; Full time

Job summary

Focal Systems is seeking a Director of Analytics to own the full data-to-decision path, including the data warehouse, the transformation layer, and the BI tooling analysts and the business actually touch. This hands-on leadership role will manage the team, review models, and make tooling calls, not just delegate them.

You will lead a small team of analysts and analytics engineers, owning the analytics stack and setting technical direction for executives.

Qualifications

• Rigorous thinker who treats data as evidence.
• Strong SQL and modern data stack skills (warehouse, transformation, BI).
• Experience leading analytics teams and mentoring analysts/engineers.
• Ability to own ambiguous problems and ship dashboards.

Responsibilities

• Own data path from raw data to decision, including warehouse and BI tooling.
• Lead a small team of analysts and analytics engineers.
• Review models and make tooling decisions; hands-on leadership.

Skills

SQL

BI tooling

Data warehouse

Team leadership

Ambiguity handling

Tools

BI stack

Job description

Type: Full-time, salaried employment Location: Remote in the UK only. Salary Range: £121,000 - £137,000 dependant on experience + stock options

Focal Systems is the industry leader in retail AI solutions. We are headquartered in San Francisco, California with operations in Canada and the UK, and a tech-hub in Poland. We are a Deep Learning first company. Our mission is to automate and optimize brick and mortar retail using deep learning computer vision. Focal Systems has been deployed at scale with some of the top retailers in the world. We seek smart, creative and passionate people who want to help build a great and enduring company and deploy Deep Learning to the world!

About the Role

As Director of Analytics, you will own the full path from raw data to decision: the data warehouse, the transformation layer, and the BI tooling analysts and the business actually touch. You will set the technical direction for the analytics stack, lead a small team of analysts and analytics engineers, and be the person executive stakeholders come to for a straight answer backed by solid numbers. This is a hands-on leadership role. You will manage the team, but you are also expected to review models, dig into the warehouse yourself, and make the tooling calls, not just delegate them.

What We Are Looking For

• You are a rigorous thinker who treats data as evidence, not decoration, and holds your team to that same standard
• You have strong technical chops in SQL and the modern data stack (warehouse, transformation layer, BI layer), and you can go deep on any of them
• You have led or grown a team of analysts or analytics engineers, and you know how to hire, mentor, and set a bar
• You are comfortable owning ambiguous, open-ended problems, from "what should we even be measuring" through to a shipped dashboard
• You communicate findings crisply to technical and non-technical audiences, including at the executive level
• You have opinions on BI tooling grounded in experience, not just familiarity, a