Locality expert

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. - Identify edge cases (like unique sign variations, urban area polygon logic, etc.) that might get missed. Similarly, identify gaps in algorithms. - Provide 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, Traffic/Transit/Signals/Signages. - Strong understanding of market research methodologies and techniques. - Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the 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.