The Role
Researches automotive and local transportation trends, policies, road rules, signs, speed limits, EV charging infrastructure, and ADAS-related conditions. Partners with policy, outreach, and working teams to provide country-specific context, identify data and algorithm gaps, conduct quality checks, establish quality metrics, perform in-country drives, prioritize issues, and support certification and continuous improvement of automotive map data.
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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.
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
- 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.
Below are the set of responsibilities that this team would be required to perform:
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.
Skills Required
- 3+ years of experience in the automotive industry, urban planning, traffic, transit, signals, or signage
- Strong understanding of market research methodologies and techniques
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in the local language and 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, attention-to-detail, and problem-solving skills
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The Company
What We Do
Terry Soot Management Group (TSMG) is a field data collection company founded in 2017 in Europe. They serve as an operations partner for AI, robotics, and autonomous programs, managing complex data collection and field operations across markets. Their teams count features, take pictures, record speech, and scan areas to provide high-quality data where automation is not possible, supporting clients in making informed decisions.
