Trail Data Consultant: Canada (remote) up to 30 hours per week
Must have experience living and hiking in Canada. French language skills are helpful but not required.
AllTrails is seeking a consultant (independent contractor) and subject matter expert of Canadian outdoor culture and geography, to provide translation and location-specific professional services to help expand our product offerings to multiple regions.
About AllTrails:
AllTrails is the most trusted and used outdoors platform in the world, reaching 45 million people a year through alltrails.com, Google Play and the App Store. We help people explore the outdoors with hand-curated trail maps along with photos, reviews, and user recordings crowdsourced from a community of 11 million registered hikers, mountain bikers and trail runners in 102 countries. AllTrails is frequently ranked as a top-10 app in Health and Fitness and has been downloaded by over 12 million people worldwide.
Contracted Services May Include:
Utilizing your mastery of Canadian geography and cultural knowledge to advise, create and or modify trail data and platform content.
Using your own independent research, analyze and incorporate marketing and demand trends into deliverables.
Supporting other data integrity initiatives to ensure the ongoing accuracy of our trail data in accordance with AllTrails’ standards.
Performing terminology research to ensure the accuracy and appropriateness of all translations.
Serving as the subject matter expert of events, conditions, or other information that impacts company operations or customer experience in your supported area.
Consulting with business partners as requested on improvements, feedback, and escalations from local users.
Contractor Requirements:
· Experience hiking or doing other outdoor activities in Canada
· Available 25-30 hours per week and able to meet project deadlines
· Strong writing and communication skills in English (and French as a bonus!)
· Reliable connectivity/equipment + availability (~1X weekly) for video-calls/meetings as needed
· Detail oriented and organized
· Ability to focus for long stretches at a time on a single task
· Passion about mobile technologies and AllTrails’ mission to connect people to the outdoors
· Prior independent contractor/consulting experience Ability to connect with business partners as needed and for biweekly meetings during business hours (Pacific Time)
· Reliable internet and computer hardware that meets the company’s IT security standards – (the company will require you to install a read-only OSQuery to ensure hard-drive encryption and antivirus software are enabled before accessing our network, compatible with MacOS 11 or Windows 10 + 64-bit or higher only)
Bonus Points
· Mapping/GIS experience
· Proven ability to quickly learn new technology and processes
· French, German, Spanish language skills are an added bonus
Applications without a cover letter will not be considered. Please include any languages you are fluent in, your location and include a description of your favorite trail!