Urban Mapping is looking for a VP Engineering/CTO/Director of Engineering to lead product development, operations and oversee customer engagements. This position reports to the CEO. Candidates must have worked in VP or Director roles at large websites or data vendors before. We’re seeking someone who is self-motivated, passionate, and takes pleasure in getting their hands dirty. We are nimble and work with low overhead.

You must be prepared to adapt quickly and wear many hats. You will guide bright engineers an agile development process to further develop Urban Mapping’s cloud-based web mapping and analytics platform, data products, and supporting systems. You will be tactician and strategist, executing and providing insight and direction. You largely define what it is, what to do, and how to do it with the engineering team. You will engage with clients or prospects to envision their future, and offer concrete implementation guidance. Additionally, you will support sales and marketing efforts, acting as a product evangelist.

Role
* Drive engineering, act as mentor, architect, and sage guru, keeping an eye on the goal, not simply on the technology
* Plan and guide product development cycles, following flexible development methodologies (partner coding, agile development, test-driven)
* Select technology and architecture for advanced features and endeavors
* Enable others to execute by taking on non-core technical work, or filling experience gaps
* Ensure high quality standards through process controls
* Cultivate the team and help individuals grow in their careers
* Perform general managerial tasks

Essential Qualities
* You are motivated to get it done
* You are technically fluent enough to steer low level technology decisions with a mix of critical insight, innate ability, and sage experience
* Communicate simply with the common-man
* Eager to learn from a team of domain experts
* Able to guide and act with limited or incomplete information about the future
* Proven experience in crafting technology solutions that are delivered on time and on budget

Experience
* A track record of leadership and success
* Previous experience at a Senior Manager level is required
* At least 2 years experience managing an engineering team of at least 5 people
* At least 2 years experience managing or principal or lead on the team for a high-availability website
* Experience with agile release cycles, preferably weekly
* Experience in a start-up environment
* Experience conducting design/code reviews, performance tuning and low level debugging

Technologies
* 5+ years of server-side OOP software development, preferable with Python, Java, or Ruby
* Broad experience with web application frameworks, preferably with Django
* Complete familiarity with n-tiered web, clustered architectures.
* Well versed in HTML, CSS, Javascript
* Deep database experience, preferably some with Postgres
* Demonstrated understanding of strategies for high availability web sites including caching techniques, clustering
* Comfortable working in Linux
* Demonstrated experience with monitoring systems, preferably some of it with Nagois and Gomez
* Experience working with web APIs and Software as a Service

Extremely Nice To Have
* Cloud computing: EC2, etc.
* Experience with virtualization
* GIS, Web Mapping APIs
* Big Data, NoSQL
* Experience managing consultants, including outsourcing

This position pays a competitive base salary ($130k+) + benefits, options, training/education, centrally-located, food & fun, etc… If you are interested in this position, please do the following:

* Review our developer portal at developer.urbanmapping.com, specifically looking at Mapfluence
* Send email with VP Eng in the subject line to talent@urbanmapping.com
* Attach your resume
* Include links/descriptions of your work
* Include a note of introduction

ATTN RECRUITERS: Not completely opposed working with you, but you *must* include information about your fees in writing. If you call, you decrease your chances of us working with you.

Urban Mapping seeks an eager and self-motivated individual to drive new business and support sales operations. This is an unusual role in that you’ll be expected to drive new revenue and support sales staff. Approximately 50% of your time will be spent on new revenue generation, and the balance supporting sales operations. Compensation is structured to allow you to thrive as an individual contributor, but also be rewarded for achieving sales targets. This is a great way to gain additional sales experience while learning more about what it takes to grow a sales organization. If you have experience selling software as a service (SaaS), online mapping, market research or enterprise sales, we’d love to hear from you.

Qualifications

• 1-3 years enterprise software, B2B, SaaS or mapping sales experience
• 4-year college degree
• Consultative sales style
• Strong work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit
• Excellent phone presence, high degree of professional acumen
• Exceptional written skills
• Experience with Salesforce (or equivalent CRM), MS Office

Responsibilities

• Identify prospects through disciplined pre-call research using OneSource, LinkedIn and other tools
• Contact prospects through dedicated outbound calling
• Qualify prospects, secure appointments, execute a strategic sales process, and manage the prospect to close
• Serve as the first point of contact for inbound sales, qualifying and routing leads internally
• Track relevant sales activity using Salesforce
• Convert/upsell existing non-paying customers (through freemium model)
• Support Panamap product sales

Your success will be measured by a combination of lead qualifications, closing accounts and teamwork (through sales operations). To be considered, please do the following:

• Send email to talent(at)urbanmapping(dot)com with INSIDE SALES in the subject line
• Attach your resume
• Include a note of interest, stating why this position and Urban Mapping appeals to you

If you don’t do the above, your resume won’t be considered. Please take the time to understand and apply, or don’t do so at all. We want committed, adventurous and curious candidates. Base is $40K-$50K DOE + benefits, quota/bonus, training, good times, opportunity to grow, etc…If you are a recruiter, we may be interested if you already understand our business and can demonstrate results.