Urban Planner

Aceolution is hiring a Locality Expert/Urban Planner for a contract position (12-18 months) focused on improving auto data accuracy in Atlanta, USA. The role involves market research, policy collaboration, quality checks, and local context provision regarding traffic regulations and conditions. Candidates should have 3+ years of experience in the automotive industry or urban planning, along with strong analytical and communication skills.
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.