Location Data Analyst - FOURSQUARE｜Meet.jobs

About Foursquare:

Since our inception in 2009, Foursquare has been a leading force in changing how location information enriches our real-world and digital lives. As a location intelligence company, Foursquare is comprised of two well-known consumer apps, Foursquare and Swarm, as well as thriving media and enterprise products. Our B2B offerings include Places (for developers), Pinpoint and Attribution (for marketers), and Place Insights (for analysts, based on the world's largest foot traffic panel). Foursquare’s location intelligence platform is embedded into a growing number of customers, ranging from world-class tech brands, mobile apps, mobile advertising solutions and OEMs. These companies are using our places database, our location technologies, and build location solutions into their offerings and to solve large-scale business problems.  With more than 200 people across our offices in New York, San Francisco, Singapore and in sales offices around the globe, we’re dedicated to our trailblazing mission—enriching consumer experiences and informing business decisions with location intelligence.

About Foursquare Asia:

Foursquare’s location data and technology is used by 100,000 developers including Asian clients including Tencent, Samsung, Path, C-Trip, LG, etc.  Both solo developers and the world’s largest tech enterprises use our suite comprised of a world-class places database (100M+ POIs), location technology, location insights & analytics, real-time feeds & APIs (including snap-to-place), and other products.  

The Asia team is a close agile team, that has secured many large data licensing contracts with renowned companies.  In order to be successful you will need to manage multiple projects simultaneously while working closely with key internal teams and stakeholders in different departments and offices.

About the Role:

The role of the Asia Location Data Analyst (part of our Venues team) is to support the global Venues team and the Foursquare Asia team with important data quality and data coverage projects.

* Please note: This role will be based out of Singapore. Applicants must be willing and able to work out of and relocate to Singapore (if not local)

Job Responsibilities:

• Use internal tools to create and validate places such as malls, airports, retailers, etc.
• Gather information on the number of expected venues we should find for our Top chains in different Asian countries
• Analyze the gap between expected venues and actual venues in our database
• Deep dives on specific chains to validate that our venue-level firmographic data is correct
• Help complete manual store harmonization work and/or manual store eval work
• Gather ‘training sets’ for venues models
• Support ad hoc analyses for large partners
• Analyze chain coverage in targeted international markets
• Help improve our mapping of Chain store data
• Researching retail and store information
• Translation or validation of venue or store information in different Asian languages
• Reviewing/flagging/debugging data issues from customers

Job Requirements:

• Hard working and willing to get the job done, as required by circumstances
• Fluency in 2 or more of Japanese, Korean, Traditional / Simplified Chinese, and cultural understanding of those languages/countries
• Excellent English writing & speaking skills
• Located in, or willing to relocate to our office in Singapore
• Knowledge of Excel/Spreadsheets and Powerpoint/Presentations and Mac OS and Google Suite Products is a plus
• Strong attention to detail & organization skills
• Experience with online internet research
• Experience working for LBS or travel technology company, would be an advantage