Director of Analytics

<p><strong>Type: </strong>Full-time, salaried employment<br><strong>Location: </strong>Remote in the UK only.<br><strong>Salary Range: </strong>£121,000 - £137,000 dependant on experience + stock options<br><br></p> <p>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.</p> <p>We seek smart, creative and passionate people who want to help build a great and enduring company and deploy Deep Learning to the world!</p> <h2><strong>About the Role</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <h2><strong>What We Are Looking For</strong></h2> <ul> <li>You are a rigorous thinker who treats data as evidence, not decoration, and holds your team to that same standard</li> <li>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</li> <li>You have led or grown a team of analys