Geospatial Product Engineering Coordinator

Overview

Do you love ArcGIS, but wish you could have a greater influence on the product? Do you have strong communication, collaboration, and leadership skills and thrive on building relationships and working with diverse teams?

Use your passion for software development and ArcGIS to put your stamp on the world’s leading GIS software by becoming a product engineer on the software development team, focused on influencing and advancing capabilities across multiple ArcGIS products.

In this role, you will work closely with product management to refine and prioritize requirements and articulate user workflows. You will act as a program coordinator with the product development teams to facilitate collaboration and building support for standards-based interoperability across products. You will test and prototype during implementation and communicate with internal stakeholders throughout the process.

If you have a passion for leading and problem-solving, and are motivated to make a real impact on the ArcGIS system, join us!

Responsibilities

• Maintain knowledge of relevant geospatial standards from a holistic customer-centric perspective
• Act as a customer advocate by passionately articulating prioritized use cases to the product development teams
• Coordinate and drive design and development efforts across product teams to ensure a consistent and complete implementation
• Lead and facilitate meetings with product and software engineers
• Create prototypes to test and validate software and provide feedback to the product teams throughout the software development cycle
• Ensure transparency by communicating development progress regularly with product management and stakeholders
• Work with technical writers to create consistent documentation about new features across products
• Share new features with customers via blog posts, learn lessons, and technical workshops

Requirements

• 2+ years of recent practical experience using ArcGIS software (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, ArcGIS Online)
• Experience with geospatial standards, such as OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium)
• Experience and ability to empathize with and articulate ArcGIS customer needs
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including in a leadership or influencer role
• Strong coordination and collaboration skills, including use of project management tools
• Ability to understand and clearly express connections between larger customer goals and software features
• Self-starter with effective time management and organizational skills
• Experience with one or more of the following platforms: Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOS
• Bachelor’s in GIS, computer science, engineering, physical or social sciences, or related fields

Recommended Qualifications

• Software development experience, ideally with the ArcGIS Maps SDKs (Native or Web), and/or ArcGIS API for Python
• Experience or knowledge of other GIS software (GeoServer, QGIS)
• Project management experience using of tools such as GitHub
• Practical experience working as part of the software development process
• Understanding of Agile and design-centric software methodologies and tools
• Master’s in GIS, computer science, engineering, physical or social sciences, or related fields

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Total Rewards

Esri’s competitive total rewards strategy includes industry-leading health and welfare benefits: medical, dental, vision, basic and supplemental life insurance for employees (and their families), 401(k) and profit-sharing programs, minimum accrual of 80 hours of vacation leave, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year, and opportunities for personal and professional growth. Base salary is one component of our total rewards strategy. Compensation decisions and the base range for this role take into account many factors including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs.

A reasonable estimate of the base salary range is

$76,960—$128,544 USD

The Company

At Esri, diversity is more than just a word on a map. When employees of different experiences, perspectives, backgrounds, and cultures come together, we are more innovative and ultimately a better place to work. We believe in having a diverse workforce that is unified under our mission of creating positive global change. We understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion is not a destination but an ongoing process. We are committed to the continuation of learning, growing, and changing our workplace so every