Business Analyst, Simbe
$120-135k
Autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution
Open for applications
Autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$120-135k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To leverage AI and robotics in order to elevate the performance of retailers with real-time insights into inventory and operations.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate will bring exceptional SQL skills, a proven ability to transform raw data into actionable insights, and a deep understanding of retail store operations
- Technical Qualifications: A bachelor’s or master’s degree in an analytical field is highly recommended but notrequired
- The ideal candidate will have at 3+ years of experience writing reliableSQL transformations and working with business intelligence (BI) tools such as Tableauor Looker
- Familiarity with data warehouses is essential, and specific experience withBigQuery and dbt is considered a strong advantage
- Experience & Abilities: The ideal candidate must have the ability to transform complex raw data into reliable and actionable metrics, demonstrating a high level of technical proficiency and a willingness to quickly learn new software tools as needed
- Strong experience working with data related to physical retailers, brands, or store operations is essential, as is expertise in data storytelling
- The candidate should be adept at using data to guide and influence business decisions, providing insights that drive meaningful improvements in operations and strategy
- In addition, the candidate should be capable of balancing multiple projects running in parallel while maintaining strong attention to detail
- Soft Skills: Candidates should have excellent communication skills to effectively convey insights across cross-functional teams and external customers
- An ideal candidate is autonomous and independent, exhibiting a strong sense of ownership and accountability
- Additionally, they must be able to evangelize their work across the organization, ensuring alignment and consistent adoption of new offerings
What the job involves
- The Business Analyst will play a pivotal role in defining, implementing, and analyzing business metrics to help retailers fully leverage the benefits of Simbe’s services
- This role will involve close collaboration with our Strategy, Sales, and Product Management teams to enhance customer-facing metrics while also empowering internal teams to make informed, data-driven decisions
- Additionally, this role will support data-related onboarding needs of new customers
- Business Metric Development: Leverage Simbe data to develop and visualize actionable metrics that enhance operational efficiency and decision-making across multiple levels of a retailer’s organization. This will require understanding the needs of each user persona that interacts with our application in order to develop the most impactful metrics
- Business Analytics: Partner with commercial teams to quantify and explain the value of Simbe’s service to customers using existing business metrics. This will include crafting clear, interpretable dashboards and suggesting concrete ways retailers can adjust operations to improve their bottom line
- Serve Data: Enhance the value of reports and notifications sent to store associates, store managers, and purchasing managers. Identify opportunities to make reports more actionable and impactful by analyzing store-level feedback and creating new types of reports
- Support Customers: The Business Analyst assists with onboarding new customers by gaining a clear understanding of how their data feed maps to store conditions and how their data integrates with Simbe’s services. This role also involves support for auditing and debugging data-related issues, whether raised by customers or identified internally
Our take
Inventory management has never been the highlight of working in retail - it's a task that often feels like a chore. However, given its nature as a large-scale data collection and management endeavour, it's undeniably ripe for automation. Something Simbe Robotics is taking advantage of through its autonomous shelf auditing and analytics solution.
Distinguishing itself from competitors through its focus on front-of-store operations. Its automation solution enables retail associates to maintain optimal stocking levels, ensure product placement accuracy, and display correct price tags, all while enhancing the overall shopping experience.
Its accomplishments over the past year, including servicing top global retailers and processing billions of shelf photos and product analyses, showcase the company's commitment to delivering real value in the retail sector. Along with recent funding under its belt, Simbe is poised to expand its presence in the retail industry, sharing its vision to enhance the retail experience through AI and robotics with more partners worldwide.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2024
$50m
SERIES C
Jul 2023
$28m
SERIES B
Total funding: $104m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- Culture of learning
- Flexible time off
Company HQ
Oyster Point, South San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Brad Bogolea
(CEO)Previously Co-Founded i-conserve where they served as CEO. They then worked at Greenbox Technology and Silver Spring Networks as Product Manager before co-founding Simbe Robotics in 2013.
Mirza A. Shah
(CTO)Graduated from Penn State University with an M.S. in Computer Science and Engineering. They then went on to found the robotics company Emoto Robotics.
Jeff Gee
(CDO)Graduated from the Academy of Art University with an MFA in Industrial Design. Previously an Industrial Designer at Suitable Technologies and Willow Garage.
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