Focal Systems Benefits Overview

Own the analytics function end to end, including Snowflake, dbt, and BI architecture. Lead and develop analysts and analytics engineers, establish data modeling, testing, governance, security, and access standards, and evaluate BI tooling. Partner with cross-functional teams to define metrics, deliver self-service and executive reporting, and translate complex operational data into actionable business decisions. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep SQL expertise and strong communication.

Owns the full data-product lifecycle, including retail data imports, integrations, pipelines, metrics, reporting APIs, AI agents, and dashboards. Sets roadmap priorities, conducts retailer discovery, partners with engineering and data teams, validates product adoption, and uses SQL and analytics to measure business impact. Requires strong technical depth, enterprise customer communication, cross-functional execution, and occasional travel for store and customer visits.

Senior Data Scientist owning end-to-end analytical problems: experiment design, predictive and inferential modeling, performance measurement, and cross-functional partnership to improve retail AI products. Duties include data acquisition, modeling, validation, auditing system outputs, building reusable statistical methods, and communicating findings to influence product and operations.