VP of Engineering, Navigation

Responsibilities

• In this role, you will
• Shape the Vision : Play a key role in envisioning and evolving our Navigation products, contributing to business and product planning.
• Drive Strategic Objectives : Align your team's work with company and product goals, ensuring strategic cohesion.
• Promote Collaboration and Innovation : Build an inclusive and collaborative environment where data-driven decisions fuel success.
• Architecture & Innovation : Lead architectural decisions and drive the adoption of new technologies to maintain a competitive edge.
• What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
• Leadership Experience: 15+ years leading engineering orgs, including managing managers and scaling teams of 200+ engineers.
• Technical Expertise: 15+ years of software engineering experience with deep technical judgment.
• Strong academic foundation: A Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline.
• Ownership & execution : Own the vision, lead the strategy, and guide the team in building the future of our navigation SDKs, APIs, and apps.
• Organization building: You understand the 10X difference between good and great organizations and strive to be the force multiplier to help your org get there.
• Customer focus . You care deeply about your customers and their problems, and you work tirelessly to innovate on their behalf.
• Growth mindset: Have the humility to accept mistakes, learn, and grow from them.
• Strong written and vocal communication skills . You can talk and write about complex ideas concisely to a broad audience.
• Operational excellence: You drive a culture of quality and continuous improvement in your organization
• Data-informed mindset: You believe in the value of data-informed decision-making and strive to measure things that are not straightforward but essential. You also have the right instincts to make speedy decisions in the absence of perfect & comprehensive data.

Benefits

Additional Information

Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform's flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers. What We Do The Navigation organization SDK and Dash teams builds frameworks, APIs, SDKs and applications that power navigation everywhere. Customers of our SDK include automotive, logistics, and consumer apps on Android, iOS, and Linux, small and large. Our developers build apps and navigation experiences that top the App Store and Play Store rankings, and we are constantly working together to help them build what's next, whether that's an AI-powered experience, a popular consumer app, an enterprise app for large fleets or rideshares, or an autonomous driving experience. The teams at Mapbox are revolutionizing in-car experiences with technology to build fast, industry-leading maps and navigation for any vehicle. We've launched products such as MapGPT , Mapbox for EV , and we're enhancing the visual experience of in-vehicle navigation with 3D styling with our new Mapbox Standard through web and mobile SDKs. Mapbox has worked with automotive partners -including BMW, Toyota, GM, and more-and on-demand logistics fleets to bring the best aspects of mobile app development into in-vehicle navigation and infotainment. Mapbox Navigation: A Guide to Navigation SDK & APIs Mapbox Newsroom: AI Features in New Navigation SDK Mapbox Blog: Introducing 3D Live Navigation

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