Solutions Analyst
UrbanFootprint
Taking the next step in your career with UrbanFootprint will set you on the path to revolutionizing how organizations make decisions.
UrbanFootprint is the world’s first Urban Intelligence Platform – trusted by some of the largest energy utilities, financial institutions, government agencies, urban planning firms, and mobility companies in the US to provide geospatial insights and find signal through noise to inform site selection, infrastructure investment, resource distribution, and much more. We do this by unifying and normalizing previously siloed data on climate, environmental, urban, and socio-economic factors to surface powerful and actionable data insights.
UrbanFootprint’s mission is to Build Resilience by empowering organizations with critical data insights to drive decision making and allow them to Never Wonder Where. Our customers answer complex ‘where’ questions in minutes versus weeks, months, or years, such as:
- ”Where does the energy sector need to invest in electrification, decarbonization, and asset hardening in the face of climate threats?”…
- ”Where should cities and businesses invest to catch up with e-commerce, last-mile delivery, and new mobility?”…
- ”Where do governments deploy relief and new infrastructure to combat record hunger, homelessness, and hazard vulnerability?”…
Led by our co-founders, Joe DiStefano and Peter Calthorpe, we are tackling a $22B market opportunity. We’ve won awards including Inc. Magazine’s Best in Business and have been named one of Fast Company’s World’s Most Innovative Companies. We raised a $25M Series B and our investors include Social Capital, Citi Ventures, Valo Ventures, 2150.VC, A/O Proptech, Assured Guaranty, and Radicle Impact.
Don’t wonder where to go next, we’ve got the perfect spot for you!
The role
We're hiring a Solutions Analyst to work directly with key customers to help answer pressing business needs by designing and executing large-scale geospatial analyses and summarizing results in ways that unlock critical insights. In short, Solutions Analysts deliver a world-class development and implementation experience to our incredible customers. You'll be a member of the Customer Success Engineering team — a group of subject matter technical experts tasked with developing innovative approaches to meeting our customer's needs. You will work alongside product, data science, and engineering to manage post-contract projects across our product suite.
You are passionate about our customers' experiences and will identify ways to deliver value through the implementation process. You can work against competing priorities in a fast-paced environment. You are excited by technology and eager to learn about our customers' needs and how your solutions meet their business needs.
What you'll do:
- Partner with technical project managers to understand customer needs and perform analyses to address time-sensitive questions
- Be the "tip-of-the-spear" for product development by implementing the first versions of new products that meet emerging customer needs.
- Lead the deployment of our data and analysis products across our growing customer base.
- Perform location intelligence analysis, specifically focused on problems such as hazard, community vulnerability, and infrastructure assessments.
- Present a summary of technical analyses to external clients that may include non-technical individuals. Develop documentation and polished presentations for external use.
- Configure and develop extensions to UrbanFootprint products to meet customer requirements.
- Leverage internal tools to ingest geospatial data for custom analysis for UrbanFootprint customers.
- Owning analytical problems from ideation, exploratory data analysis, and prototype through to customer delivery.
Your background most likely includes:
- 3+ years of data analysis or solutions analysis experience focused on data-oriented customer deliverables.
- A BS or MS in Data Science (with emphasis on geospatial analysis), Geography, Urban Planning, Public Policy (with a strong focus on data analysis and visualization), Economics, or other similar technical fields
- Experience with Python and Python's scientific programming stack, including pandas, geopandas, and various visualization packages including map-based visualizations
- Experience with SQL, including familiarity with geospatial queries
- Experience with Github for collaborative software development
- Experience working in cloud environments (GCP, AWS, Azure, etc.)
- Experience with Linux and shell commands
- Comfort with interactive analysis in Python (such as Jupyter Notebooks)
- Sustained attention to quality and detail, goal-oriented, and strong programming skills
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Previous experience working in a consulting role or directly with external stakeholders - comfortable communicating technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Bonus points for government, energy, finance, or real estate domain experience
- Experience with Jira or working under an agile management framework.
Target Salary and Bonus Compensation = $93,000 - $135,000
(Compensation is flexible based on experience; all candidates at various levels will be considered)
UrbanFootprint is committed to diversity in its workforce. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.