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Posted on:
4th of May 2016 at 10:00 PM
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Changing the world is all in a day’s work at Apple. If you love innovation, here’s your chance to make a career of it. You’ll work hard. But the job comes with more than a few perks.
Apple Maps Metrics group is seeking a driven and analytical regional expert to be UK Country Lead. Come join this highly motivated and cross-functional team of data scientists, statisticians, subject matter experts, and engineers. Help us generate actionable insights into where and how we have the most opportunities for improving experience for customers around the world. The successful candidate will set the (high) bar for human judgement rating, initiate and champion data-driven quality improvements with compelling customer experience stories. The ideal candidate will be passionate about maps or international culture.
Key Qualifications:
•Native speaker in at least one of the country specific languages/dialects
•Strong written and verbal communication
•Excellent attention to detail
•Proven ability to drive product decisions based on customer experience needs
•Regional expertise from residing in the country
•Multi-city understanding of navigation, cartography, and local search expectations
•Current detailed knowledge of the unique features of your local area, including preferred place names, prominent businesses, public services, seasonal events, driving routes, landmarks, and road names
Description:
You are ready to dive into a challenge. You will model and document excellent region-specific human judgement (rating) decisions. You will own responsibility for driving country-specific quality of Maps (navigation, cartography, local search, basemap, and points of interest) and lend regional perspective to critical block-ship decisions. You will integrate information from various tools and dashboards to help focus engineering and data acquisition on improvements that “move the needle.”
Education:
Degree in Linguistics, Geography, or quantitative field (Computer Science, Statistics, . . .), or equivalent experience
Additional Requirements:
Excellent attention to detail Ability to pick up using new tools quickly. Able to script repetitive steps. Proficient with analysis in multiple tools (for example, Excel, SQL, GIS, FME, scripting, and/or R/Matlab) Experience with spatial analysis, spatial indexing, mapping, or routing algorithms would be a plus Experience with local search analysis would be a plus
Apple is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer that is committed to inclusion and diversity. We also take affirmative action to offer employment and advancement opportunities to all applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.
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