Senior GIS Analyst

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee intricate site selection, relocation, workforce and labor analysis, demographic studies, and market evaluations.

• Conduct drive-time, distance, trade-area, and origin-destination assessments.

• Create weighted suitability models, spatial scoring techniques, and analytical frameworks to pinpoint and compare ideal locations.

• Integrate and assess data from Esri, Lightcast, commercial real estate platforms, public data repositories, and client-supplied datasets.

• Scrutinize data sources, assumptions, and methods to ensure accurate, defensible, reproducible, and client-ready analyses.

• Generate maps, dashboards, StoryMaps, reports, presentations, and other deliverables suitable for clients.

• Convert analytical results into clear narratives and recommendations that support leasing, investment, development, and locational choices.

• Collaborate with brokers and business teams on client strategies, pitches, pursuits, and business development.

• Provide guidance to brokers, marketing, research, and other business teams on analytical inquiries, methodologies, and result interpretations.

• Serve as a subject matter expert in GIS capabilities, spatial analysis, data sources, and location intelligence methodologies.

• Establish and uphold GIS standards, templates, methodologies, and best practices.

• Enhance and automate GIS workflows, analytical models, and recurring deliverables using Python, ModelBuilder, and other tools.

• Investigate and implement AI, automation, and emerging analytical technologies while ensuring quality controls are maintained.

• Disseminate GIS knowledge, methodologies, and best practices throughout the organization.

• Report to the Director of Business and Location Intelligence and work in collaboration with local market teams across the nation.

⛳️ Requirements

• A Bachelor’s degree in Geography, GIS, Urban Planning, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field; equivalent experience will also be considered.

• Over 5 years of progressively responsible experience in GIS, location intelligence, geospatial analytics, or a similar discipline.

• Proven experience leading advanced site selection, market, demographic, workforce, or spatial analyses in a dynamic, client-oriented environment.

• Experience in translating analytical findings into actionable recommendations for business or client audiences.

• A portfolio or examples demonstrating advanced geospatial analysis and data visualization is preferred.

• Advanced proficiency in the Esri platform, including ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Online, Experience Builder, and Dashboards.

• Strong experience in site selection, demographic analysis, labor and workforce analytics, and spatial analysis within a client-facing context.

• Proven ability to construct and interpret suitability models and other multi-variable spatial analyses.

• Expertise in producing client-ready maps, visualizations, dashboards, reports, and presentations.

• Capability to work with large, complex datasets from various sources and evaluate data quality, assumptions, and limitations.

• Excellent communication and consulting skills, with the ability to convert technical analysis into clear business recommendations.

• Familiarity with Python, ModelBuilder, or other GIS automation tools is preferred.

• A strong preference for experience in commercial real estate, corporate location strategy, economic development, or consulting environments.

• Must complete the Culture Index survey within 48 hours of application submission.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salaries

• Bonuses

• Medical insurance

• Dental insurance

• Vision insurance

• Pharmacy benefits

• Health savings account

• Flexible spending accounts

• 401(k) plan with company matching

• PTO

• Holiday pay

• Development opportunities

• Remote work arrangement