[Hiring] Senior Product Manager @Focal Systems

Role Description

As Senior Product Manager, you will take ownership of how data is processed at Focal, and shape what that path becomes:

• From the imports that bring a retailer's planograms, inventory and store metadata into our platform.
• Through the pipelines that turn them into signal.
• To the metrics and reports their head office acts on.

You will work with data engineering, data scientists, analytics, customer success and the retailers themselves. What you build are data products, and the measure of one is what a retailer does differently because of it.

This is a hands-on role. You will:

• Set direction and priorities as we roll out to hundreds of new stores.
• Know the systems well enough to be a partner in an engineering design conversation.
• Pull your own numbers when something looks wrong.
• Hold a strong position in discussions with customers.

Qualifications

• You are a peer to the engineers you work with, understanding the systems well enough to know what is expensive and when to push back.
• You are drawn to the seams between teams, where ownership is shared and the hardest problems live.
• You write your own queries and interrogate the answers before anyone else has to.
• You can name the business number a data product of yours moved.
• You can change your mind in a technical argument and point to the time you did.
• You have strong judgment about what not to build and have killed your own work when it stopped earning its place.
• You use AI as part of how you actually work and have built things with it that others went on to use.
• You communicate complicated things crisply to people who do not share your context.
• You build things that outlast you, whether runbooks, tooling or documented decisions.

Requirements

• 5+ years in product management, including real time on a technically deep product where you owned integrations, data, or both.
• Enough technical depth to reason about APIs, data pipelines and system boundaries.
• Experience building for a hierarchy of users who need different things from the same data.
• Hands-on comfort with SQL and the ability to answer your own data questions.
• Fluency in the analytics and BI tooling landscape.
• Demonstrated ownership of a product roadmap end to end.
• A track record of getting things done across teams.
• Experience working directly with enterprise customers.
• Comfortable operating remote-first, across a distributed team.
• Willingness to travel occasionally for store and customer visits.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary & Attractive Stock.
• Generous Paid Time Off.
• Pension.
• Sick Leave.
• Parental Leave.
• Learning and Development Budget.