What are the responsibilities and job description for the Urban Planner position at Aceolution?
Aceolution is seeking a local resident in Atlanta, USA with a strong understanding of automobile industry trends, local transport, and traffic regulations. This individual will be hired for the role of Locality Expert.
As an Urban Planner/ Locality Expert, you will be responsible for the 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.
Employment Type: Contract
Contract period: 12 – 18 months
Location: Atlanta, USA (remote)
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
Important notice:
Aceolution Inc. will never request a monetary deposit for any role or project with the company, and our recruitment and sourcing teams only use @aceolution.com address when emailing candidates. Ignore aceolutions.com which is a spammer email ID doing rounds over the past few months.
