Staff Business Systems Analyst

The role

This person will connect business strategy, process design, enterprise systems, and technology delivery across Business Intelligence & Systems functions. They will translate complex needs into business cases, process designs, functional specifications, and sprint-ready work.

What you will do

• Partner with functional leaders to shape executive roadmaps, business cases, and prioritization.
• Lead discovery, process mapping, root-cause analysis, and gap assessment across various functions.
• Translate business needs into functional requirements, user stories, and sprint-ready backlog items.
• Develop functional depth in ERP and other enterprise platforms, integrations, and reporting.
• Facilitate cross-functional design sessions with Technical Architecture and Engineering.
• Maintain requirements traceability and lead functional validation, UAT, and release readiness.
• Embed compliance, security, and operational controls into process and system designs.
• Analyze production issues and business-process KPIs.
• Lead or support vendor evaluations and implementation.
• Identify opportunities for workflow automation and AI-enabled capabilities.

Required qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior Business Systems Analyst, Business Process, Product, Program, or comparable enterprise-systems role.
• Demonstrated success leading end-to-end business transformations across process, technology, data, controls, and change adoption.
• Strong functional depth in one or more enterprise domains such as Finance, Supply Chain and Distribution Center Operations, People, Legal, or other corporate functions.
• Strong hands-on experience with enterprise applications such as ERP and adjacent business platforms.
• Strong command of business-analysis practices, including process modeling, requirements elicitation, functional specifications, user stories, acceptance criteria, UAT, and release readiness.
• Technical fluency sufficient to work effectively with architects, engineers, integration teams, data teams, and vendors.
• Experience operating in public-company environments with SOX, compliance, controls, governance, and audit requirements.
• Track record of influencing senior stakeholders, resolving ambiguity, and driving decisions.
• Ability to maintain a hybrid presence in the Bay Area.

Nice to have

• an engineering or technical background

Benefits

• Build a breakthrough AI platform beyond the constraints of the GPU.
• Publish and open source cutting-edge AI research.
• Work on one of the fastest AI supercomputers in the world.
• Job stability with startup vitality.
• Simple, non-corporate work culture that respects individual beliefs.

About the company

Cerebras Systems builds the world's largest AI chip. The company works with leading model labs, global enterprises, and cutting-edge AI-native startups.