Job Description

Role Objective
Locality Experts program that can be leveraged to improve freshness and accuracy of all Auto data attributes. This will be done by establishing a Locality Expert that will become knowledgeable of local conditions, policies, and country wide changes to proactively build a pipeline of potential real word changes.

Responsibilities:

• Below are the set of responsibilities that this team would be required to perform ■ Do Market research around trends in Auto industry
• P0: Speed limits, EVCS
• P1: other ADAS
• Work with the policy team on the policy creation for these countries and provide local context as needed.
• Do meta QC and random checks to figure out quality issues
• Create a country metric for quality and conduct in-country drives to provide feedback and data to client working groups.
• Be an owner for the country for queries from any other team as well for other basemap features other than Transit.
• Curate region-specific implicit/statutory speed limits and rules (for e.g., arterials in a town should be 20 vs a state-wide rule of 30)
• Research news articles, notices from govt./highway construction/other agencies, when there are scheduled maintenance/repair
• Identifying edge cases (like unique sign variations, urban area polygon logic, etc.) that might get missed. Similarly, identifying gaps in algorithms.
• Providing inputs to prioritize issues more proactively, and with local knowledge (i.e. which missing signs are causing the most problems, what errors are most egregious for users).
• Support proactive outreach with govt. and transit authorities to understand upcoming changes, systematic issues with our data, etc... (To be disambiguated with Outreach and Partnerships, who will own data collection/feeds)
• Support the partnerships and other outreach teams in local knowledge and context as needed.
• Consult on all sign types to provide local context and understanding and interpretations of various road signs.
• Assist with quality assurance and country certification processes to ensure that the highest quality level is reached and maintained in the assigned country.

Experience / Skills:

• 3+ years of experience in the automotive industry or Urban planning, Traffics/ Transit/ Signals/ Signages
• Strong understanding of market research methodologies and techniques.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in Local language and in English
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Strong analytical, excellent attention to detail and problem-solving skills