Director, Data Sourcing

Urban Mapping is looking for a mid-level manager who thrives on multi-disciplinary thinking, creative problem solving and is adept at decision making with limited information.Your background will include exposure to rigorous quantitative training in demographics, sociology, or a related discipline and you will have professional experience that demonstrates your ability to manage small teams and multiple projects.

Requirements

-MA (min) in social sciences (demography, cognitive psychology, sociology or related) with emphasis on quantitative methods
-8 years professional experience, including 2 in a management role
-Technical proficiency in SQL, Microsoft Office, Internet research
-Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills
-Ability to drive to resolution in an information-sparse environment
-Strong project management skills
-Inquisitive mind
-Self-starter, able to know when to ask for help

Responsibilities

-Manage small team of data analysts
-Identify, evaluate, load and maintain data sets
-Work with business development to identify and source new data partners
-Maintain and grow data catalog

Urban Mapping is a geographic data and services company. We offer a data catalog that comprises 10,000+ variables across 100s of data sets from dozens of vendors and sources. This information is hosted in a cloud infrastructure and accessible to customers via services, effectively offering a web-based GIS to specific market segments. Customers include major web publishers, portals and leading companies in industry-specific verticals.

This is a full time position with competitive salary, health insurance, stock options and an enjoyable, but hyper-focused corporate culture. Position will be based in our SoMa office with minimal travel. Learn more about us at www.urbanmapping.com. If you are interested in this role, please forward a resume and note of interest to talent(at)urbanmapping(dot)com with DATA SOURCING DIRECTOR in the subject line.

We are seeking a skilled and talented field sales professional to sell our value-added geographic data services to medium and large enterprises. The successful candidate will possess a track record of successfully selling data or research services to enterprise customers. The focus of this position will be on acquiring new client accounts in the consumer product marketing, insurance and commercial real estate.

This is an excellent opportunity for a proven hunter to lead the sales efforts for our newest service offering – Mapfluence. This position offers the realistic opportunity for high-earnings and a path to a management role by building a small sales team as revenue permits.

Primary Responsibilities

• Build and manage a pipeline of prospects from initial qualification to closure.
• Follow up on incoming leads and cold-call targeted prospects.
• Respond to inbound RFIs and RFPs as necessary.
• Make in-person and virtual executive level presentations that communicate the Mapfluence™ value proposition.
• Create and present professional quality proposals that address customer needs in terms of services we can deliver.
• Provide upper management with highly reliable sales forecasts.
• Consistently meet or exceed quarterly quota.

Job Qualifications

• Several years experience selling data services, market research, business intelligence or marketing solutions to enterprise clients.
• Some experience with GIS applications or geographic data services.
• A proven track record of field sales accomplishments with consistent quota achievement.
• Demonstrated experience selling across F2000 verticals and corporate marketing (horizontally)
• Knowledge of ESRI, MapInfo, SHP, datum, OSM, ArcView, postgis a plus.
• Some experience managing a small inside/outside sales team a big plus.

Compensation includes a competitive base salary and commission structure with no caps. Company benefits include employer-provided health benefits, stock options, Friday lunches, occasional outings/dinners and a fun, relaxed work environment.

Company Description

Urban Mapping is a value-added geographic data services company.  For several years, we have successfully sold our  Urbanware™ geospatial database of neighborhoods and mass transit information to companies such as Microsoft, Yahoo, MapQuest, and many other online entities.  We are a small, profitable, high energy startup that is well-positioned to continue to serve our existing markets while expanding into the enterprise market in 2010 and beyond.

To be considered for this position, please submit a resume and letter of interest to talent(at)urbanmapping.com, with Sales Director in the subject line.

Urban Mapping seeks a motivated, inquisitive and whip-smart undergraduate in final year of studies to grow from an internship to full time position. This is an unusual role—we want somebody with a passion to learn, excel, do good work and most importantly, make mistakes—quickly, and learn even faster.

If you are a CS/EECS/CogSci/SymSys student with a solid academic background and have database experience, we might be interested in hearing from you. You understand good software design, are confident in your skills and potential, know when to RTFM, and aren’t afraid to ask questions.

Requirements:

• Experience/coursework in computational geometry, computer graphics, or web development
• Confident programming skills in C, Java, or Python and SQL experience
• 1 or 2 semesters remaining to receive undergraduate degree
• Ability to commit to ~20 hours/week during semester and 40+ hours/week over summer and after graduation
• Confident and clear verbal and written communicator
• Curiosity, passion, strong academic record
• Interest in, curiosity about maps, geography, demographics

Urban Mapping is an established startup (read: we are healthy and profitable, and continue to pursue the bleeding edge) in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood.  Our innovative work with geospatial data and technology is always presenting new challenges. Currently, we need help to create and manage a massive datastore of geo- and related data. You will work with a group of engineers and project managers to learn everything from metadata creation to custom ETL techniques. You must enjoy challenges, creative problem-solving and have an interest in entrepreneurship.

This position will begin as a co-op role, then (hopefully) evolve into a full time internship over the summer and (ideally) turn into a full time position upon graduation. We offer Fri lunch, occasional outings/retreats/teach-ins and a fun work environment.

TO APPLY:
1. Visit our blog and site to learn a bit more about us
2. Write up your solutions the two problems below. Credit will be given for effort; incomplete submissions will be ignored.
3. Send a cover letter, solutions, resume and to talent(at)urbanmapping(dot)com

Problem #1 – Show code/commands in the language/tools of your choice  to extract a list of unique IPs/apikey pairs from a log with following format:

napi.urbanmapping.com 208.13.194.18 - - [09/Sep/2009:10:43:11 -0700]
“GET /neighborhoods/rest/getNeighborhoodsByLatLng? lat=43.6366595&
lng=-79.4250212&format=xml&apikey=8k3pent5qzztwn HTTP/1.0″
200 1105 “-” “Drupal (+http://drupal.org/)” “Basic”
getNeighborhoodsByLatLng 1
tapi.urbanmapping.com 83.40.19.38 - - [09/Sep/2009:10:44:44 -0700]
“GET /find/stations/near_point.json?lat=40.756945&lng= -73.978243
&searchrange=1000&transit_system_id=&apikey=a2de289b1a93a8541f998
HTTP/1.0″ 200 2434 “-” “Pingdom.com_bot _version_1.4_
(http://www.pingdom.com/)” “Proximity” prox_stations_near_point 1

Problem #2 - You have a dataset of geographic boundaries (Census Blocks) which aggregate demographic statistics.  You want to estimate the same statistics for an arbitrary polygonal region. Describe in words or pseudocode a process for calculating these stats and discuss any problems with your solution.

Urban Mapping is looking for a recent CS/EECS/CogSci/SymSys graduate with 1-2 years professional experience, solid academic background and experience working with large-scale datasets, databases, geodata and maps. You understand good software design, can build robust tools and know how get things done with magic on the UNIX command line or scripts. You are confident in your skills and potential, know when to RTFM, and aren’t afraid to ask questions.

Urban Mapping is an established startup (read: we have paying customers) in San Francisco’s SOMA neighborhood.  Our innovative work with geospatial data and technology is always presenting new challenges. Currently, we need help to create and manage a massive datastore of geo- and related data. You will work in engineering as the de facto Data Wrangler but enjoy the entrepreneurial challenge and will find many areas to shine and learn.

Essential knowledge:

- Linux, shell scripting
- Intermediate to advanced SQL
- Very confident in one of: Python, Ruby, C, Perl, Java
- Exposure to GIS and geospatial tools
- Attention to detail

The ideal candidate will:

- Have FOSSG experience: PostgreSQL/PostGIS, GeoDjango, OSM
- Know rendering and tiling tools (TileCache, Mapnik)
- Understand cartography, projections, etc.
- Server-side web development experience
- Python/Django guru
- WhereCamper!

If this sounds of interest, please visit our blog to learn a bit more about us. This is a full time position with salary, health insurance, other benefits (Fri lunch on the company, occasional outings/retreats, etc) and equity compensation. To apply, send your solutions the following two problems, resume and a cover letter to talent(at)urbanmapping(dot)com. Credit given for effort, and incomplete submissions will be ignored.

Problem #1 – Show code to extract a list of unique IPs/apikey pairs from a log with following format:

napi.urbanmapping.com 208.13.194.18 – - [09/Sep/2009:10:43:11 -0700] “GET /neighborhoods/rest/getNeighborhoodsByLatLng? lat=43.6366595&lng=-79.4250212&format=xml&apikey=8k3pent5qzztwn HTTP/1.0″ 200 1105 “-” “Drupal (+http://drupal.org/)” “Basic” getNeighborhoodsByLatLng 1

tapi.urbanmapping.com 83.40.19.38 – - [09/Sep/2009:10:44:44 -0700] “GET /find/stations/near_point.json?lat=40.756945&lng= -73.978243&searchrange=1000&transit_system_id=&apikey=a2de289b1a93a8541f998 HTTP/1.0″ 200 2434 “-” “Pingdom.com_bot _version_1.4_(http://www.pingdom.com/)” “Proximity” prox_stations_near_point 1

Problem #2 – You have a dataset of geographic boundaries (Census Blocks) which aggregate demographic statistics.  You want to estimate the same statistics for an arbitrary polygonal region. Describe a process for calculating these stats and discuss any problems with your solution.