Focal Systems

Business Analyst - UK

Focal Systems  •  £49k - £57k/yr  •  United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (Remote)  •  1 month ago
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Job Description

Type: Full-time, salaried employment
Location: Remote in the UK only.
Salary Range: £49,000 - £57,000 + 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!

What We Are Looking For

  • You’re a curious problem solver who enjoys asking “why” until you find the root cause
  • You have strong technical chops, especially in SQL and Python
  • You pay close attention to the details
  • You’re comfortable wrangling messy, incomplete, or complex datasets
  • You know how to turn data into a story - charts, dashboards, decks, whatever it takes
  • You’re a clear communicator and a cross-functional collaborator


What You Will Be Doing

  • Bring your experience to the team as we upgrade our infrastructure and build a foundation for future analytics work
  • Write SQL queries to pull and analyze data from multiple sources
  • Transform complex, unstructured datasets into clean, presentation-ready formats
  • Develop dashboards, reports, and visualizations that highlight trends and drive strategic decisions
  • Audit system outputs and provide feedback to improve functionality
  • Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to identify key metrics and design reporting solutions
  • Present findings to stakeholders in a clear, impactful way
  • Help define and refine best practices for data quality, reporting, and analysis

Requirements:

  • 2+ years of experience as a Business Analyst, Data Analyst, or similar role
  • Proficient in SQL
  • Experience with data visualization tools
  • Strong analytical thinking and attention to detail
  • Excellent communication skills - verbal, written, and visual
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment

Nice to have:

  • Experience with Python
  • Experience with Sigma or similar BI tools
  • Background in retail, logistics, or startups
  • Familiarity with data warehouses like Snowflake

Why Focal Systems

Strong Values and Mission - We are a tightly-knit team with an ambitious mission and a strong set of core values, which define our approach to business and have successfully guided us since inception.

Exceptional Team - We are a team of hard-working, fun-loving professionals from some of the most eminent universities, research labs, and tech companies of our time. We pride ourselves on recruiting exceptional individuals to help us redefine the state-of-the-art.

Outstanding Partners - We work with 10+ of the largest retailers in the world and have a world-class roster of investors, advisors and partners to support & advise us in our endeavors.

What we offer
We care deeply about the health, happiness, and wellbeing of all of our employees. We offer:

  • Competitive Salary, Commission & Attractive Stock
  • Generous Paid Time Off
  • Pension
  • Sick Leave
  • Parental Leave
  • Learning and Development Budget
Focal Systems

About Focal Systems

Focal Systems’ platform helps retailers cut shelf scanning cost in half by switching from manual to automated shelf scans.

The solution is based on low cost, discrete shelf cameras, a sophisticated computer vision model and a cloud-based machine learning platform that is tuned for complex retail environments.

By providing automated, real-time insight into on-shelf product availability, retailers can repurpose store personnel to focus on customer experience and other higher value tasks.

In addition, the real time data captured by the shelf cameras feeds into Focal Systems’ AI engine which can help automate and optimize product availability and merchandising decisions.

These optimizations have proven to save up to 50% on manual shelf scanning cost and significantly improve in-store customer experience via higher product availability which generates a 3-5% increase in sales compared to baseline stores.

Focal Systems’ platform is deployable at scale and will provide impactful results from day one. It also integrates with existing retail systems and applications to enable additional cost savings and insights from its real-time product availability and analysis.

Focal Systems’ shelf cams are deployed at scale with proven results at several major global retailers and every day process more than 10M shelf scan images.

Industry
Retail & Ecommerce
Company Size
51-200 employees
Headquarters
Burlingame, California
Year Founded
2015
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