What are the responsibilities and job description for the Data Acquisition Specialist position at Smarty?
Who we are
Smarty is a 10 year company that is self-funded, profitable, growing, and crazy fun! Come grow with us!
Lucky for you, we have an immediate opening on our Product team for a Geospatial Data Sourcing Specialist to unlock the mysteries of GIS data for cutting-edge products and systems. We need a tenacious data hunter who will stop at nothing to help Smarty find the hidden meaning and insight behind every location. Like Indiana Jones - but instead of one box, we’re searching for the entire world. If you enjoy the thrill of combing through location data (who doesn’t?), keep reading!
Who you are:
- 2-5 years of experience with GIS data, ideally in a tech environment
- Bachelor's degree in Geography, Geospatial Sciences, Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field
- Knowledge of geographic and international datasets
- Deep data sourcing skills in public and private domains
- Technical experience with ArcGIS, QGIS, Alteryx, and SQL preferred
- Experience translating large, messy datasets into structured formats
- Bonus: Comfortable working with APIs, data versioning, or integrating GIS data into customer-facing applications
- Bonus: Knowledge of and hands-on experience with databases
- Bonus: Programming experience in languages including Golang, Python, Java, SQL, etc.
- Bonus: Understanding of data governance and compliance standards
What you’ll do:
- Research, identify, and utilize various data sources to meet organizational objectives
- Perform validation and verification testing on the data
- Build, optimize and maintain data pipelines to process and structure geospatial data for internal use.
- Automate tasks through appropriate tools and scripting
- Extract and compile geocode data for use in new and existing product lines
- Collaborate with product managers to define data requirements for new features
- Work with engineering teams to uncover insights and deliver data that meets functional requirements
- Perform spatial analysis to support decision-making and product planning
- Ensure data quality, completeness, and consistency across systems
- May assist with custom data queries or visualizations to support internal use cases
- Participate in company cultural training initiatives, including Arbinger methodologies, and apply learned principles in your work and in your interactions with others
- Work hard, master your craft, and enjoy the journey - boldly going where no SaaS company has gone before
What we’ll do for you
Compensation, Benefits and Perks:
A bulleted list doesn't really convey how cool it is to work here. And let's be honest: these sound super generic, but we promise you will be pleasantly surprised.
- Excellent compensation (DOE)
- 100% paid health, dental and basic life insurance premiums (includes family coverage)
- Long term disability insurance
- Generous paid time off that increases with tenure
- 401(k) retirement plan with matching
- Employee Assistance Program
- Ongoing training for professional and career development
- Great workplace and the tools to accomplish your work
- Fully stocked kitchen with unlimited drinks and snacks
- Team building lunches and activities
- In-office chiropractic services
- Many other perks, including company retreats and trips to exciting locations
To apply:
Sounds too good to be true? Apply and find out for yourself.
- For more information about the company, please visit us at www.smarty.com.
Smarty is a leader in location data intelligence-providing enterprise-grade SaaS solutions for address validation, standardization, and geocoding in 240 countries and territories. Through easy-to-use website tools, SDKs and fully-documented APIs, Smarty's customers process billions of addresses every day!
And we're having fun!
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and we require all candidates (that receive and accept employment offers) to complete a background check.
