Job Description, Responsibilities & Requirements
About the Position
We are seeking an Automotive Navigation & Map Visualization Research Consultant to join our Cartography Design team. Our client is a leading location data and technology company powering navigation, mapping, and location intelligence solutions across the automotive, mobility, and enterprise industries.
Responsibilities
- Competitive Benchmarking: Analyze and compare automotive navigation products, including OEM solutions, navigation providers, mobility products, and emerging navigation experiences.
- HD Lane & Guidance Research: Investigate approaches for lane-level visualization, recommended lane concepts, route highlighting approaches, vehicle positioning, highway guidance, and interchange and merge behavior.
- Real-World Validation: Conduct independent test drives, joint research sessions, route-based scenario analysis, and record navigation behavior in motion.
- Repository & Knowledge Building: Create and maintain a structured collection of screenshots, videos, session notes, journey logs, annotated examples, and benchmark references.
- Insight Development: Transform observations into actionable outputs such as benchmark reports, comparison frameworks, pattern libraries, taxonomies, visual summaries, and design opportunity recommendations.
Requirements
- Experience in one or more of the following areas:
- Research & Design: UX Research, Design Research, Human Factors, Human Computer Interaction (HCI), Service Design Research
- Mobility & Automotive: Automotive UX, In-Vehicle Infotainment (IVI), Navigation Systems, Driver Experience, Mobility Research
- Visualization: Information Visualization, Mapping Products, Geospatial Interfaces, Visual Systems Analysis
- Practical thinking, strong analytical skills, and a structured approach to documenting and organizing complex information.
- Combination of remote work and occasional collaborative sessions (several days per month in Berlin office).
- Driver’s license is required.
We Offer
- Opportunity to work with a leading location data and technology company.
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment.
- Range of benefits that support your well-being and professional growth.
- Commitment to fostering equity, diversity, and inclusion.
About the Company
At Intellias, where technology takes center stage, people always come before processes. By creating a comfortable atmosphere in our team, we empower individuals to unlock their true potential and achieve extraordinary results. Join Intellias for a career where your perspectives and contributions are vital to our shared success.