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Mapping City/Country Expert

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Mid-level (2-5 years)
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Offer summary

Qualifications:

1 to 3 years of experience, Graduate or equivalent experience, Knowledge of urban planning, Basic data analytics and technical writing skills.

Key responsabilities:

  • Maintain and improve transit data pipelines
  • Consult on Urban transit systems
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Job description

Role Objective

The team works on keeping Maps Data current and reflective of real-world changes. They work on issues submitted by end-users of Maps or test the location results of user queries submitted via Web Search or Maps interface.
The Mapping City/Country Expert will be responsible for high-impact work in improving transit data and providing country-specific expertise. The City/Country Expert will be responsible for developing and maintaining transit data pipelines, establishing the ground truth in the city/country they work in, and consulting on Transit/Micro-mobility projects.

Consultancy responsibilities:
  • Communicating with internal stakeholder teams and external companies to achieve project goals.
  • Provide input to create city/country-specific policy for existing general transit-related policy. The city/country expert works to apply existing Mapping policies to their specific city/country, providing insights into local transit/traffic laws, landmarks, and key mapping features.
  • Consulting on Urban transit systems and Multi-modal (including Micro-mobility & Walking).
  • Review of mapping operations issues for quality checks related to specific cities/countries of expertise.
  • Point of contact for mapping operations country-specific questions.
  • Document and analyze the information needs of product improvement for clients and facilitate delivering appropriate solutions.
  • Perform market comparison analysis of the features, data, or issues related to local transit.
  • Proactively suggest improvements to the data management platform and identify transit user expectations, data gaps, and provide insights to the product team.
  • Provide inputs to product/partnerships teams regarding local transportation modes and growth opportunities.
  • Act as a Country/Regional Transit POC for internal and external teams.
  • Understand the background, priority, and impact of requests; effectively communicate with program managers/stakeholders on the ask, timeline, and priority.

  • Data Management responsibilities:
  • Create city-level transit data modeling policies based on market needs and local regulations.
  • Leverage familiarity with local/regional urban transit systems to identify patterns and systematic data problems or gaps in transit data and improve or resolve the issues.
  • Make necessary edits for all transit data types if the provided static data is not accurate.
  • Identify transit user expectations, broken critical user journeys, data gaps, and provide insights to the product to improve the same.
  • Assist Program Managers in communicating with partners/providers about required data fixes or problematic data areas.
  • Evaluate data and GTFS mapping for prioritized cities to identify the need for internal adaptors or standardization.
  • Gain in-depth knowledge of the data, processes, tools, and policy (applicable to all processes/data types).
  • Translate and interpret comments and actions from various sources (e.g., user feedback) and troubleshoot problems based on instructions, training, and context.
  • Field escalations of complex or edge-case data issues from internal teams and resolve appropriately, including creating bugs for external teams.
  • Conduct in-city field research to determine the ground truth of transit issues and user problems.
  • Validate the quality of new and updated data in the data management platform.
  • Manage city-specific data pipelines through the transit data management platform, including updating pipelines using basic programming skills.
  • Develop outage and alert capabilities in their assigned city by effective monitoring.
  • Work with other internal teams to ensure the correct political format for the country is utilized.
  • Provide on-call support during non-working hours and weekends in case of any data outages.

  • Required experience:
  • 1 to 3 years of experience.
  • Graduate or equivalent experience.
  • Good communication skills (read, write, and speak) in English and native local language.
  • Basic data analytics and technical writing skills are required.
  • Deep knowledge of city/country transit/traffic networks or urban planning.
  • Knowledge of transit-specific data formats (GTFS especially) is an added advantage.
  • Basic/Good knowledge of GIS mapping tools and programming skills (Java, C#, C++, and Python) is a plus.
  • Comfortable with a rapidly-changing environment.
  • Strong problem-solving skills and excellent attention to detail.
  • Required profile

    Experience

    Level of experience: Mid-level (2-5 years)
    Spoken language(s):
    English
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    Other Skills

    • Detail Oriented
    • Communication
    • Problem Solving

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