What You'll Do
- Own end-to-end operational delivery of projects, ensuring successful realization against customer requirements for content, quality, timeline, and budget.
- Drive projects across the full lifecycledefinition, planning, execution, delivery, and aftercareusing structured project management methodologies and tools.
- Lead day-to-day project execution, ensuring milestones, dependencies, risks,and resources are actively managed and controlled.
- Proactively identify risks, issues, and constraints, define practical mitigation plans, and ensure timely resolution without impacting delivery commitments.
- Organize and facilitate regular project, operational, and stakeholder status meetings, ensuring clarity, alignment, and decision ownership.
- Deliver clear, accurate, and data-driven project reporting to internal stakeholders, senior leadership, and external partners.
- Define,monitor, and continuously improve project KPIs, ensuring performance,quality, and efficiency targets are met.
- Act as a subject-matter expert, driving engineering and tooling priorities based on operational needs and customer impact.
- Ensure compliance of automated and manual workflows, validating quality, process adherence, and governance standards.
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Operations, Quality,Product, Platform) to drive alignment and execution efficiency.
- Manage external suppliers and partners, ensuring contractual deliverables,quality standards, and timelines are met.
- Manage operational and organizational change impacts, ensuring smooth adoption of new processes, tools, or delivery models.
- Take a hands-on approach to close execution gaps where required, especially during critical delivery phases.
- Challenge the status quo, identify inefficiencies, and drive continuous improvement across business and operational processes.
- Apply data analytics and operational insights to support decision-making,root-cause analysis, and process optimization.
- Lead complex problem-solving efforts, taking new perspectives where precedents do not exist.
- Serve as a mentor and escalation point for less experienced project managers and team members.
- Operate independently in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment, demonstrating accountability, ownership, flexibility, and resilience.
- Foster team motivation, engagement, and performance, creating a culture of ownership, quality, and delivery excellence
What You'll Need
- Bachelor's Degree, preferably in IT, Engineering, or Geographical Sciences
- 1215 years of proven project management experience in a technical or operational map-making environment
- PRINCE2,PMP, or equivalent Project Management certification
- Strong knowledge of project management methodologies (PMI, Agile, or hybrid)
- Experience with Lean and Six Sigma quality management practices
- Domain experience in GIS, Mapping, or Navigation (preferred)
- Working knowledge of QGIS, ArcGIS, OSM iD Editor, Java-based map editing tools
- FME Workbench (basic)
- Python and SQL scripts (basic understanding)
- Experience managing complex, global projects across multiple regions and time zones
- Proven ability to handle multiple assignments in a fast-paced environment
- Experience managing vendors, external stakeholders, and partners (strong plus)
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and data-driven decision-making skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- High energy, self-starter mindset, and strong sense of ownership
- Ability to work effectively in multicultural, cross-functional teams
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint),
- Basic understanding of JIRA and Power BI for project tracking, reporting, and insights
- Strongly quality- and process-focused, with a proactive and solution-oriented mindset
- Advanced proficiency in English
What is nice to have Knowledge of ADAS/HD map layers and familiarity with automotive standards (ISA, ADAS, AV, HD Maps) is an advantage. Familiarity with APIs and integrations, Cloud Services
We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.
