Digital Anthropologist (IoT Data Operations Specialist)
Palo Alto, California
Product Management – Product /
Full Time /
One Concern is a Palo Alto-based benevolent artificial intelligence company with a mission to save lives and livelihoods before, during, and after disasters. Founded at Stanford University, One Concern enables cities, corporations and citizens to embrace a disaster-free future, through AI-enabled technology, policy, and finance. By combining data science and natural phenomena science we are pursuing a vision for planetary-scale resilience, where everyone lives in a safe, equitable, and sustainable world.
One Concern is growing rapidly and we are looking for a passionate and motivated Digital Anthropologist to join our team. In your role, you will join our ongoing efforts in creating high-resolution and multi-faceted datasets about cities in which we deploy our products. These datasets improve the accuracy of our modeling of live and future natural hazards, help governments make important data-driven decisions about preparation, evacuation, and mitigation, and enable our services to be deployed anywhere in the world.
A typical day in your role could involve
- Identifying socio-economic and built environment data requirements to support model development and planning collection strategies
- Working with local teams in foreign environments to execute on-the-ground data collection
- Collaborating with data science and engineering teams to ensure data sufficiency and quality control
- Brainstorming about new datasets and collection methods to improve our knowledge of cities that deploy our services
- Interacting with stakeholders in government, academia, and the private sector to negotiate data acquisition agreements
Must Haves
- We love to hear what you have done, even if it’s not for work! We want to see that you understand the challenges of building a multi-source data pipeline, from planning and discovery, to on the ground execution, and finally to evaluation
- You have significant experience with project management, in particular in the developing world
- You are comfortable and confident working autonomously in complex and ambiguous environments and impose order in dynamic work situations
- You enjoy creative and structured problem solving. You like the challenge of working on complex problems, and are capable of breaking down a larger problem into something manageable
- You are excited about extensive travel
Bonus points if you have
- Experience with data gathering methodologies
- Fluency in multiple languages or significant experience living or working in other countries
- Professional experience working alongside engineering or data science teams, and with tools like Git, Jira
- Military experience - vets welcome!
Perks and Benefits
- Market-competitive salary plus equity
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Daily lunches, and a fully-stocked kitchen
- Generous PTO policy
- Team off-sites
- Flexible working hours
