Director of Maps Data and Partnerships

About the role

While Radar has long been the industry leader in geofencing, in 2023 we launched a Maps Platform. Since then, hundreds of companies have switched from Google Maps or Mapbox to Radar.

To support our next phase of growth, we're looking for a geospatial industry veteran to lead Maps Data and Partnerships at Radar. You'll wear many hats, from sourcing commercial address, POI, and traffic datasets to building a network of channel and reseller partners to contributing to OSM, MapLibre, and other open mapping projects.

Most Radar employees work from our NYC HQ in Union Square, although we will consider remote for the right candidate.

How we work:

Most of our engineering team are former technical co-founders or former Radar interns from schools like Waterloo and CMU. Most engineers at Radar fit one of two molds, technically: either Staff level expertise in one stack, or Multi-Stack at any level. We say Multi-Stack because "Full-Stack" has the connotation of "Frontend and Backend", but Radar Engineers might also work on Mobile or Data engineering. Not that you need to be an expert in all of those, but a desire to learn, jump around to different stacks and get things done is the important part.

We care a lot about shipping fast and talking to customers. We're committed to our product vision of full-stack location infrastructure, but we also know that customer feedback is a treasure map to gold. Even though Slack is the brain of our company, working together in-person in our NYC HQ is the fastest way for us to get things done. We meet on Mondays to plan out work for the week in small groups and use Linear for planning. All projects are run by an Engineering lead, an executive and a Go-to-Market lead. Engineers figure out what to build, talk to customers, talk to prospects, help close them, get them live and make them successful.

One of the hardest and most valuable practices we have is Walk A Mile - which is shorthand for putting yourself in the user's shoes - but also for literally walking a mile and dogfooding the Radar SDK, because you can't create location infrastructure behind a desk - you have see how the device behaves in the real world. To us, a week is a long time, and we expect to ship big things every week.

The hiring process:

After a brief call with our CTO, we'll invite you to our NYC HQ for an interview if we think there is a possible match. You'll meet one of our co-founders and we'll also go into more depth about how we work to see if there is a match.

What you’ll do:

• Oversee map data sourcing and licensing.
• Source data sets to fill in global coverage for addresses, points of interest, admin boundaries, address validation, live traffic, speed limits, road closures, truck restrictions and more.
• Work closely with Overture, OSM and other open map data communities.
• Work with the Radar engineering team to build systems to create new data from raw sources like satellite imagery, government data and the broader web.
• Build a partner program for Radar Maps resellers.
• Talk to Radar customers and prospects, hear their feedback, incorporate it into your work and make them successful.

You should:

• Have experience at a large mapping company sourcing and licensing map data.
• Be fluent in the open mapping data ecosystem and ideally have a deep network in those communities (eg, Overture, OSM, etc).
• Have experience creating map data internally from raw sources like satellite imagery, government data and data from across the web.
• Be interested in talking to customers and prospects and making them successful.

Bonus points if you:

• Are a former co-founder

You’ll work with

• Tim Julien, CTO
• Jeff Kao, Senior Staff Engineer
• Craig Kochis, Director of Engineering
• Nick Patrick, CEO
• Our customers and prospects
• Our Engineering, Sales, Sales Engineering, and Customer Success teams

Benefits & Perks:

• Competitive compensation package and equity plan
• Medical, dental