Geospatial Advocate

From smartphones to connected cars, location data is changing the way we live and the way business happens. CARTO is the platform that turns location data into more efficient delivery routes, better behavioral marketing, strategic store placements, and much more.
- Everyone, from business analysts to developers and data scientists, use our software and location data to understand where and why things happen, optimize business processes, and predict future outcomes. Trusted by NHL, Bain, Coca-Cola, Deliveroo and JLL and many more enterprise organizations, CARTO is leading in the Location Intelligence (LI) space, providing cloud native GIS solutions in tandem with Google Cloud, AWS, Snowflake, Databricks and Microsoft Azure.

With an exceptionally diverse team of 150 people spread across the US and Europe, CARTO (backed by Insight Partners, Accel Partners, Salesforce Ventures, Earlybird Ventures, and Kibo Ventures, among others) is changing the way companies analyze location data - making it simple to do this straight out of modern, cloud data warehouses. Redefining its category, the company has grown rapidly in recent years providing a compelling alternative to legacy GIS software.

The Geospatial/Data Science Advocate inspires existing and potential customers to start - and advance on - their Location Intelligence journey. You’ll be showcasing all components of our Location Intelligence platform, our data and our analytics capabilities, as well as the added value of our data and cloud partnerships. You will achieve this through excellent analytical and visualization skills, which combined with fantastic communication and storytelling abilities will get people excited about CARTO A large part of this role will be technical content creation; tasks could involve speaking at conferences, creating content for our blog and website, delivering webinars and building demos and visualizations for our marketing and sales teams.

The location for this position is flexible and you will form part of our Product Marketing team.

**Role objectives**:

- Undertake high-value technical marketing activities for CARTO, driving demand for our product and supporting lead generation.
- Increase our brand awareness amongst our key verticals and target customer profiles.
- Work with data, cloud and client partners to develop content that benefits all parties.
- Working with stakeholders across CARTO teams - including Data Science, Product, and Business Development - to ensure content buy-in across CARTO to ensure our entire team’s efforts are being represented in our marketing activities.

**Responsibilities**:

- Producing targeted, high-value content, to reinforce our position as leaders in the Spatial Data Science and Location Analytics field. The aim of this is to help existing customers get the most out of our solution, as well as attract new customers to our solution. This could include blogs, tutorials, white papers, videos, social media content and visualizations. Check out our blog to see what you could be working on
- Representing CARTO at events - this could involve speaking at conferences, running webinars, joining or moderating panels, running a stand or holding technical workshops. This will likely involve some overnight and international travel.
- Being a great brand ambassador You will be one of the “faces” of CARTO and will be building our community and strengthening our industry links.
- With great technical and marketing skills, you’ll be a key link between our data scientists & engineers and marketing & sales teams, e.g. through delivering and improving training.

**Qualifications and skills**:

- At least 2 years experience in roles delivering technical geospatial/data science analytics and visualization. You should have a strong customer and commercial focus with great storytelling abilities and know how to turn data, processes, and analytics into compelling stories.
- Proven experience in data science and geospatial analytics, ideally in a modern geospatial tech stack. Experience using Spatial SQL is essential, and using CARTO is preferred.
- Strong public speaking and training delivery skills and a desire to communicate effectively to diverse audiences with different needs and learning styles.
- Excellent written and visual communication skills. You should be able to get people excited about Location Intelligence and CARTO whilst exploring complex technical concepts.
- Great at taking the initiative If you have ideas that align with our marketing strategy and will appeal to our verticals, we want to hear them
- A great “technical translator” - can you put complex data science concepts into plain English so that non-technical audiences can see their value?
- Experience working in a SaaS environment is preferred.
- Strong project management skills and cross-functional collaboration.
- Passion for breaking down complex ideas into manageable pieces

**We offer (geography-dependent)**:

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