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StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to help transportation professionals and data analysts understand mobility behavior. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to over four trillion spatial data points over time, StreetLight measures diverse travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via the world’s first SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From measuring traffic volumes to identifying trip origins and destinations, to planning for electric vehicles charging, StreetLight powers more than 6,000 global projects every month.
StreetLight Data is seeking a strong Data Engineer to be part of our growing Engineering team. This team member will work on processing data at scale, and productizing new analytics into the StreetLight InSight platform. This position reports to the Manager of Data Science.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design and implement components within the StreetLight InSight data processing pipeline (from raw input files to optimized tables used for analyses)
- Tune the StreetLight InSight processing pipeline for performance and scalability, and automate it to allow for hands-off operations
- Develop new analytics algorithms, using a deep understanding of the raw data
- Implement customized analytics for clients in collaboration with Sales
- Work with Product Management and Application teams to productize data analytics algorithms into the StreetLight InSight web application
- Contribute to data science projects as appropriate.
Skills & Qualifications:
- BS / MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or an Engineering discipline from a top university
- 5+ years experience as a software or data engineer at an enterprise software/analytics company
- 5+ years experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred) and SQL, including strong understanding of concepts
- Strong understanding of algorithms, and 3+ years experience in Java and/or Python
- Good communication skills – both written and verbal
- Knowledge of geospatial data is a plus
- Knowledge of statistics and/or science is a plus
- Quick learner, and a strong team player
StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to help transportation professionals and data analysts understand mobility behavior. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to over four trillion spatial data points over time, StreetLight measures diverse travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via the world’s first SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From measuring traffic volumes to identifying trip origins and destinations, to planning for electric vehicles charging, StreetLight powers more than 6,000 global projects every month.
StreetLight Data is seeking a creative, versatile, and motivated Senior Data Scientist to be part of our growing team. This team member will lead data science projects to develop exciting new algorithms for our product, as well as help productize those algorithms into our scalable StreetLight InSight® analytics platform. This position reports to the Data Science Manager.
Position may be located in San Francisco, CA or Vancouver, BC.
Key Responsibilities
- Design algorithms to infer key transportation patterns from various data sources
- Research and implement suitable strategies (e.g. regression models, neural networks, etc.) for solving data science problems
- Find and build real-world data sets for training various models and doing quality checks
- Productize data science algorithms within the StreetLight InSight® platform, in collaboration with the Application Engineering team
- Create visualizations and dashboards to help tell stories with data
- Define and implement customized and/or cutting-edge solutions for customers
Skills & Requirements
- BS/MS in Mathematics, Computer Science or an Engineering discipline from a top university. Alternatively, a PhD focused on quantitative research and discovering insights from data is acceptable in lieu of a BS/MS plus experience.
- 3 – 5 years of experience in data science and/or statistics, using tools such as R or Python
- 2+ years of experience in SQL and relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), and good understanding of relational concepts
- Strong understanding of techniques in data science (machine learning algorithms, regression analysis, etc.)
- Strong data analysis skills, knowing what can/cannot be possible, and ability to visualize data in the best way possible
- Good communication skills – written, visual (presentations), and verbal
- Ability to deliver adequate results on deadline, and make compromises to enable scalability and productization of algorithms
- Geo-spatial skills are a plus
- Knowledge of transportation data / industry is a plus
- Quick learner, and a strong team player
StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to help transportation professionals and data analysts understand mobility behavior. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to over four trillion spatial data points over time, StreetLight measures diverse travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via the world’s first SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From measuring traffic volumes to identifying trip origins and destinations, to planning for electric vehicles charging, StreetLight powers more than 6,000 global projects every month.
StreetLight Data is seeking a high caliber Sr. Software Engineer to be part of our growing team. This team member will work on both the frontend and backend of the StreetLight InSight SaaS web application that our subscription customers use to explore and visualize travel patterns in the real world. This position reports to the Senior Director of Engineering.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and maintain customer-facing features, including both frontend and backend components, in the StreetLight InSight SaaS web application and analytics serving pipeline
- Interface among our San Francisco, Vancouver, and Eastern European teams, and mentor more junior engineers
- Deliver product releases to production each month
- Write automated unit tests and participate in peer design and code reviews
- Collaborate daily with the other developers and QA engineers on the team, as well as with Product Management
- Productize analytics handoffs from the Data Science and Data Engineering team
- Tune StreetLight InSight for performance, scalability, and reliable operation to serve our growing customer base
- Assist Support and Operations in resolving production issues when needed, and improve the product to avoid them in the future
Skills & Qualifications:
- BS / MS in Computer Science, Mathematics, or an Engineering discipline from a top university
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer at a software product company, preferable in an enterprise market
- 3+ years of experience developing web-based SaaS applications
- Competence and interest in both frontend and backend web development
- Proficiency in either JavaScript or Python (both would be a strong plus; Java, Ruby, or Go experience can substitute for Python in a candidate who is open to learning)
- Experience with SQL databases
- Product and customer orientation
- Good communication skills – both written and verbal
- Quick learner, and a strong team player
StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to help transportation professionals and data analysts understand mobility behavior. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to over four trillion spatial data points over time, StreetLight measures diverse travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via the world’s first SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From measuring traffic volumes to identifying trip origins and destinations, to planning for electric vehicles charging, StreetLight powers more than 6,000 global projects every month.
Streetlight has offices in San Francisco CA, Richmond VA and Canada. The ideal candidate will be motivated by building relationships with the communities, in which we live and work, to create a talented pipeline of candidates for the organization. This includes responsibility for all recruiting initiatives, process efficiencies, new hire onboarding and overall supporting the continued growth of Streetlight Data through the hiring of top talent. If you are interested in gaining knowledge and experience in Talent Acquisition and Human Resources, this is the position for you! Ideally, this position will be based out of the Richmond or San Francisco office, however, we are open to considering remote candidates as well. The role reports to the Director of Human Resources and may require occasional travel to other StreetLight offices for company and team meetings, as well as possible travel for recruiting events.
Key Responsibilities:
- Own the full recruiting life-cycle from sourcing to onboarding
- Responsible for all onboarding of new employees to ensure smooth transition
- Ability to identify and build relationships with passive candidates
- Develop strong working relationships with all hiring managers
- Actively and consistently source qualified candidates through multiple channels
- Work with Director of HR to develop proactive measures to address talent gaps within Streetlight
- ·Work with hiring managers to overcome obstacles and achieve results
- Build trust and relationships with recruiting agencies
- Work closely with campus career centers to expand Streetlight’s reach to recent graduates
- Meticulously maintain tracking system to guide candidates and hiring managers through interview process
- Ability to excellently articulate offer of employment, culture and benefits package to candidates
- Ensure candidates are provided with timely updates concerning the status of their applications and interviews.
- Provide a world class experience for all potential candidates
- Support and continue to build the Streetlight brand through informative conversations with potential candidates
- ·Create strategies for process efficiencies to support hiring managers and recruiting needs
- Support and build internal recruiting initiatives
Skills & Qualifications
- 2+ years of experience in recruiting or customer-focused field
- 2+ years of working in a fast-paced technology or start-up environment is highly preferred
- Working knowledge of industry standard terms in technology field preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree in HR management, business, or similar field, or equivalent practical experience in lieu of degree, is preferred.
- Working knowledge of recruiting software and collaboration tools a plus
- Experience partnering with a team of highly technical employees preferred
- The ability to collaborate well with a dynamic and committed team
- The ability to self-direct to design and execute tasks and goals with a high level of autonomy
- Experience using a data-driven approach to identify trends and recommend proactive solutions for talent gaps
- Excellent project management skills with a proven ability to design and implement people strategy that drives business results
- A natural “relationship builder” focused on people
- Strong communicator with the ability to successfully articulate company mission
Interesting in applying? StreetLight offers a competitive benefits and salary package.
StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to help transportation professionals and data analysts understand mobility behavior. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to over four trillion spatial data points over time, StreetLight measures diverse travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via the world’s first SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From measuring traffic volumes to identifying trip origins and destinations, to planning for electric vehicles charging, StreetLight powers more than 6,000 global projects every month.
StreetLight Data is seeking a Product Support Engineer to help our clients solve transportation problems using StreetLight InSight®, our SaaS on-demand platform. This team member will work closely with planners, modelers, and engineers, helping them put Big Data to work for transportation.
The Product Support Engineer will provide comprehensive support to our customers to enable them to use StreetLight InSight® to its maximum potential, understand our methodologies, and trust our Metrics to address their mobility questions, all to ensure their highest possible satisfaction. This position reports to the Director, Support.
This position can be based in our Richmond, VA office or remote within the Eastern or Central time zones within the US or Canada. We are currently asking all employees to work remotely during COVID for employee safety but plan to eventually return to working from offices post-COVID in some capacity. Therefore, we can be somewhat flexible on current geographic location.
Key Responsibilities:
- Deliver a superior support experience to our customers with every interaction
- Provide first-level and escalated technical support for users of the StreetLight InSight® platform
- Support customers in a respectful, engaging, and empathetic manner through email, conference calls, and office hours sessions
- Become an expert in StreetLight Metrics and their uses to all of StreetLight’s customers Conduct investigations into analyses, Metrics results, and the underlying data to determine root causes of issues raised by customers or internal staff
- Manage a high volume of inbound requests in a timely and organized manner. Improve processes to handle support requests
- Work collaboratively with Training and Documentation teams to ensure the best possible proactive support for our customers including creating help center content and FAQs and assisting with training sessions
- Work collaboratively with Sales, Engineering, and Product Management, to make StreetLight InSight® as easy-to-use as possible.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in a technical discipline such as Transportation, Engineering, or Urban Planning; MS degree in a similar field is a plus
- One or more years of experience in a customer-facing role required; Technical support of customers using a software application is a plus
- Strong statistical knowledge and analytic skills required including one or more years of experience with Excel and comfort working with data and identifying patterns
- Quick learner with problem-solving abilities and a strong sense of empathy and understanding of user needs
- Excellent written as well as verbal communication skills – this job requires writing technical guides to inform product users and regular communication with customers via email and phone
- Be extremely organized and able to follow and design processes
- Experience working in transportation engineering/consulting, transportation agencies, or urban planning is strongly preferred
- Experience with geospatial tools (such as QGIS or ArcGIS) and statistics are a plus
- Experience in customer services and deliverables is a plus
- Experience working with APIs and programming is a plus
- French fluency is a plus
- Occasional travel to StreetLight Data and customer offices required
Product Manager, Data as a Service + APIs
SAN FRANCISCO, CA /
PRODUCT – DATA & METRICS /
FULL-TIME
StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to help transportation professionals and data analysts understand mobility behavior. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to over four trillion spatial data points over time, StreetLight measures diverse travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via the world’s first SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From measuring traffic volumes to identifying trip origins and destinations, to planning for electric vehicles charging, StreetLight powers more than 6,000 global projects every month.
StreetLight Data, the pioneer in Big Data for mobility, is revolutionizing transportation and urban planning to help the world better deploy and optimize infrastructure and adapt to new forms of mobility.
StreetLight Data is seeking a Product Manager to work with our data science, and web applications teams in two areas: Data as a Service and Application Programming Interfaces (API). Reporting to the VP of Product, you will collaborate with our other product managers, engineering, marketing and sales to research, define, plan, build, release and drive successful sales and adoption of both new and existing data products and the APIs for Streetlight Insight®.
This position requires strong product management experience in data products and APIs, along with expertise in analytics and statistical methods. A background in SaaS and/or transportation planning or related fields is a strong plus. Candidates can be remote, and we also have offices in San Francisco, Richmond, and Vancouver.
Key Responsibilities:
- Understand the StreetLight organization, business objectives and growth plans, with a holistic view of transportation planning and operations industry.
- Develop the customer requirements and market opportunities for StreetLight in general and then specifically for Data as a Service and API offerings.
- Be hands-on in documenting requirements including programming language support, APIs, visualizations, marketplaces in order to build the business cases for product roadmap and new product development.
- Collaborate effectively within the Product Team and across Web Application Engineering and Data teams to support product release planning, schedules, and near and long-term roadmaps.
- Communicate and collaborate closely with Product Marketing, Learning Services, Marketing, Solution Engineers, Sales and our Executive Team to deliver product to market.
- Provide pre and post sales support to API customers / partners as needed during initial ramp phase of API sales and usage.
Skills & Qualifications
- BS or equivalent in Computer Science or related engineering field required.
- 2 or more years of professional experience as a software developer working with APIs is required; experience building APIs for internal or external use is a plus.
- 3 or more years of product management experience in a SaaS company focused on APIs and big data is required Some working knowledge of of programming languages like R, Python is useful.
- Experience working with data analytics and visualization tools such as Tableau, Qlik or equivalent is strongly preferred.
- Proven ability to develop product specifications for APIs including descriptions of developer requirements driven by understanding of customer and partner applications.
- Demonstrated experience collaboratively working in a product development environment with product managers, data scientists, data / software engineers, QA and Support to define and deliver products, manage release schedules and support Marketing and Sales in go-to-market education, training and launch processes; experience in Agile Development methodologies a strong plus.
- Extremely well-organized, logical thinker with a positive outlook that can take large projects and break them down into manageable tasks with achievable goals and schedules for yourself and others.
- Self-starter that thrives in a fast-paced environment and enjoys problem-solving.
- Open, honest, direct and respectful communicator, a collaborative team player that knows how to work with others to get things done in a positive manner.
- Passionate about making the world a better place for people to live, move, and work.
StreetLight pioneered the use of Big Data analytics to help transportation professionals and data analysts understand mobility behavior. Applying proprietary machine-learning algorithms to over four trillion spatial data points over time, StreetLight measures diverse travel patterns and makes them available on-demand via the world’s first SaaS platform for mobility, StreetLight InSight®. From measuring traffic volumes to identifying trip origins and destinations, to planning for electric vehicles charging, StreetLight powers more than 6,000 global projects every month.
As a member of our Customer Success team, you will act as a trusted advisor for your customers across North America, helping them adopt the StreetLight InSight® analytics platform to make more data-driven planning decisions. Our customers are on the cusp of adopting Big Data solutions at scale, and we are one of the first companies to enter this high-potential industry. That means we need savvy, sophisticated customer success professionals who go above and beyond to truly educate and empower customers.
The Engagement Associate will work with customers in the transportation industry to ensure that our products get implemented successfully. The Engagement Associate, working alongside Account Executives and other members of the Customer Success team, will have a portfolio of customers to move through the customer journey from onboarding through successful adoption of their StreetLight InSight® subscription.
Previous experience working at a transportation engineering or planning firm is helpful to success in the role and is desired.
Location: Position is based remotely from a home office. In a normal (non pandemic) year, regular travel to customer sites (up to a few times per quarter) and occasional travel to San Francisco headquarters (quarterly or bi-annually) required.
Key Responsibilities:
- Work closely with a portfolio of Public Sector and AEC firm customers with the primary goal of helping them successfully use the StreetLight InSight® platform for their core project needs
- Develop and execute onboarding plans for new customers assigned to your portfolio and coordinate with StreetLight Product Support and Training teams to ensure new users onboard as quickly as possible
- Develop customer-specific plans to enable on-going learning opportunities related to the use of Big Data for transportation and additional ways to use the StreetLight InSight® analytical platform
- Team with Account Executives and the rest of Customer Success team to ensure customers achieve a return on investment from their subscriptions
- Serve as a voice of the customer in sharing product feedback and facilitate opportunities for customers to interact with StreetLight’s Product team.
- Collaborate with StreetLight’s Marketing team in development of customer-based case studies, blog posts, and industry-event presentations.
- Interface with other functional groups, project teams and internal stakeholders to effectively resolve issues and remove barriers toward the goal of jointly reaching StreetLight business objectives.
Skills and Qualifications:
- 5+ years experience in transportation planning or transportation engineering at a public sector agency or consulting firm.
- Bachelor’s degree required, master’s degree is a plus.
- Proficiency with analytics software skills. Bonus for SaaS tools.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial “start-up” environment.
- Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work in a team selling environment.
- Excellent communication skills – written and verbal.
- Comfortable presenting to large audiences.
- Multi-tasking, critical thinking skills and the ability to influence and manage multiple priorities are essential.
- Team-oriented, flexible, and able to see the “big picture” – because our entire team must meet our goals for StreetLight Data to be successful.
- In a normal (non-pandemic) year, must be willing and able to travel regularly as needed to achieve objectives (All meetings are being done virtually at this time)
Interested in applying? Streetlight Data offers a competitive salary and benefits package!
StreetLight Data is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. StreetLight Data provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.