Vice President of Human Resources, Focal
People
+ High Growth Stock
Retail automation & optimization
Job no longer available
Retail automation & optimization
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
+ High Growth Stock
101-200 employees
Company mission
To lower the cost of living for all mankind by automating and optimizing brick and mortar retail with the latest advancements in AI.
Role
Who you are
- Superior leadership: You have extensive experience in building & leading organizations of strong individual contributors and managers
- You are as passionate about leading, attracting and growing talent as you are about continuously improving our products and processes
- Data: You believe that data is the foundation for decision-making, and you are willing to challenge and be challenged
- You believe in rolling up your sleeves and digging in when needed regardless of organizational structure or boundaries
- Result-driven: As a catalyst, you drive HR strategy to achieve stellar results
- You are highly productive, independent, technology-focused, and have excellent communication and presentation skills
- Above all else, you are as passionate about building and managing world-class teams
- Creative Approach: You understand that as a growing startup we can’t compete on all fronts
- So you are motivated to identify where we stand out as an organization and leverage that to our creative advantage
- Bachelor’s degree in HR/People or relate field (advanced degree preferred)
- 10+ years of related HR/People experience in a dynamic, growing environment (startup experience strongly preferred)
- Experience building a global HR/People function from scratch
- Proven change leadership and organizational design experience
- Project management skills with experience operationalizing complex initiatives into systematic and efficient work streams
- Intellectual curiosity with proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities effectively
- Retail experience and experience with an IPO is very helpful
- HR certification (e.g., SHRM-SCP, SPHR) is a plus
What the job involves
- We are looking for a growth-minded Vice President of Human Resources/People to build and lead a best-in-class HR/People function that is strategically aligned with Focal’s business, mission and values
- Reporting to the CEO, as a newly created position, the VP, HR will play a critical role in building and executing our people strategy to support our continued international growth
- S/he will lead the development and implementation of Focal’s HR initiatives and programs that align with our business objectives and foster a high-performance culture
- Build and direct all HR/People activities, including talent acquisition, learning & development, benefits, safety, legal compliance, compensation, performance management, employee relations, HRIS, HR analytics. Create and manage the budget
- Ensure a high level of accountability and a performance-driven team culture
- Design and implement creative and competitive compensation & benefits plans that attract top talent while meeting the constraints of a growing startup
- Identify KPI’s for the organization’s HR function and assesses the success and competitiveness based on these metrics
- Design and execution of comprehensive performance management, titling, and promotion strategies
- Oversee the design and implementation of scalable, measurable ways to engage our team members from first application to onboarding, growth, and departures
- Oversee our onboarding strategy, resulting in best-in-class, constantly evolving onboarding experiences that will allow us to quickly, effectively, and reliably scale
- Innovate around our organizational approach to growth, constantly search for scalable ways to empower our employees and invest in their development aligned to topline organizational goals and vision
- Establish robust foundations, systems, and processes for a data-driven people and talent function, fostering a culture of accountability and measurable results
- Ensure continued compliance with relevant HR laws and regulations globally
- Research, develop, and implement competitive compensation, benefits, performance management and employee incentive programs
- Ensure organizational design is clear and effectively aligned to company objectives
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment laws and regulations, and recommended best practices; reviews policies and practices to maintain compliance
- Maintain knowledge of trends, best practices, regulatory changes, and new technologies in human resources and employment law
Our take
Even in the largest retailers, inventory systems are usually manual, with staff checking inventory to get an idea of stock numbers, spoilage and other metrics. These are slow and introduce a high degree of human error, as well as being difficult to carry out around shoppers.
Focal Systems leverages a network of low-cost, ruggedized cameras and computer vision to scan a store's shelves automatically, alerting the backroom of the need to restock an area of the store in real time. In a time when retailers are facing staff shortages and supply chain issues, this kind of automation is in high demand, as is evidenced by Focal System's customer base which includes the likes of Walmart, ShopRite and Piggly Wiggly.
Having raised an impressive amount of funding, Focal Systems is doubling down on R&D and expanding its global sales and engineering teams. As more brick-and-mortar retailers begin adopting automated solutions, Focal Systems is in a strong position to continue its growth.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2021
$25.8m
SERIES B
Dec 2019
$4.8m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $41.9m
Company benefits
- Health Insurance
- Catered lunches
- Paid Time Off
- Quarterly Team Retreats
- Education grants
- Meaningful equity-grants in a very fast growing startup that is aiming for an IPO
Company HQ
Ingold - Milldale, Burlingame, CA
Leadership
Francois Chaubard
(CEO & Founder)Was a part of Lockheed Martin's Engineering Leadership Development Program. Then worked as a Deep Learning Researcher at Bay Sensors and Apple.
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