Infrastructure Analytics and Research Manager

Title: Infrastructure Analytics and Research Manager/Infrastructure Data and Research Analyst (title may be adjusted based on experience)
Location: Boulder, Colorado; Remote Possible
Industry: Bicycle Industry Nonprofit
Employment and Classification: “At will” employment status; full-time position

About PeopleForBikes
PeopleForBikes (PFB) unites millions of Americans, thousands of businesses, and hundreds of communities to make every bike ride safer, more accessible, and more fun. Our mission is to get more people on bikes more often and make every bike ride better for everyone. Nationwide, PeopleForBikes represents more than 325 supplier members and 1.4 million individual supporters. The U.S. bicycle industry contributes $88 billion annually to the U.S. economy and supports more than 780,000 jobs. PeopleForBikes is composed of a Coalition that is the U.S. bicycle industry’s trade association and a Foundation that supports and promotes bicycling’s benefits and backs crucial bike infrastructure projects and programs. Additionally, we were named one of the top 50 best places to work by Outside Magazine in 2023.

Position Summary

PeopleForBikes is hiring an Infrastructure Analytics and Research Manager or Infrastructure Data and Research Analyst, depending on the applicant pool.

The position will advance PeopleForBikes’ efforts to make the U.S. the best place to ride a bike in the world by developing, managing, and evolving PeopleForBikes' infrastructure measurement and analysis tools, coordinating research projects, and providing technical support to enhance bike infrastructure nationwide.

Responsibilities include collaborating with various partners and presenting findings to partners, funders, product users, and others at conferences, webinars, and workshops. The successful candidate will harness the power of data and research and assist PeopleForBikes’ marketing and communications team in translating that information into compelling storytelling to support the construction of safe and connected bike networks and reducing barriers to bicycling.

The position reports to the Vice President of Infrastructure. The preferred location is near PeopleForBikes’ Boulder, Colorado, office. Candidates who can work remotely and travel to Boulder regularly, as well as to donors across the U.S., will also be considered. Candidates should possess an entrepreneurial mindset, be self-motivated, and comfortable working on their own.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver valuable resources to measure PeopleForBikes’ progress in advancing better bike infrastructure nationwide that gets more people riding bikes more often and meets the needs of local governments, advocates, bike industry partners, funders, and other community partners.
• Manage the ongoing operations and development of PeopleForBikes’ infrastructure-focused measurement and analysis tools, which include the City Ratings program, Bicycle Network Analysis (BNA) tool, Recreational Access tool, National Bike Project Tracker, and Protected Bike Lane Inventory.
• Evolve PeopleForBikes’ infrastructure-focused measurement and analysis tools and create additional functionality to enhance efficacy, ease of use, and analytic capability. Develop and regularly update a road map that sets a vision for and guides these tools.
• Manage the ongoing growth and maintenance of PeopleForBikes’ infrastructure-focused research resources including the online research library and new research projects that communicate the impact of PeopleForBikes’ work to create better bike infrastructure. Develop and regularly update a road map that sets a vision for and guides this work.
• Oversee the development of new research and studies to advance infrastructure and meet the needs of local governments, advocates, bike industry partners, funders, and other community partners. Propose new approaches, methods, and technologies to advance this work.
• Coordinate with a variety of partners including urban design firms, software developers, program users, industry members, funding partners, and partner organizations to advance and inform the growth and development of PeopleForBikes’ infrastructure-focused measurement tools and research resources.
• Identify, acquire, clean, analyze, and visualize datasets, including publically available data (e.g., American Community Survey, OpenStreetMap, etc.) and primary data sources (e.g., the PeopleForBikes Community Survey and City Snapshot).
• Update, aggregate, and analyze Bicycle Network Analysis (BNA) data annually to inform annual City Ratings results.
• QA all software development work completed by contractors.
• Draft and review code to update BNA software for continued alignment with national infrastructure standards, OpenStreetMap data standards, and the latest U.S. Census data.
• Provide support to local government and advocacy partners and other external stakeholders on using, updating, and analyzing PeopleForBikes’ infrastructure-focused measurement tools, research resources, and other analytic products. This includes producing written technical documentation, blog posts, webinars, and trainings.
• Present PeopleForBikes’ infrastructure-focused measurement tools, research resources, and other analytics products at conferences, webinars, and other workshops, both in person and virtually.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

Don’t meet every requirement? No problem. Studies show that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they do, so we encourage you to apply anyway.

• Bachelor’s degree in Urban Planning, Geography, Geographic Information Science, Computer Science, or related field.
• Two to three years of experience within a government agency, consulting firm, nonprofit, academic institution, or related organization. Additional education such as a Master’s degree or PhD may be substituted for experience.
• Expertise in editing and interpreting OpenStreetMap data and OpenStreetMap tagging schemes (especially bike-related tags), Python or R, GIS software including ArcGIS or QGIS, conducting vector-based spatial data analysis, and working with U.S. Census data and related data sets and boundary files.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, Google Suite, Felt, Prismic, Git, Amazon Web Services, Shell scripting, SQL, PostGIS/PostgreSQL, and pgRouting.
• Understanding of Bicycle Level of Traffic Stress Framework.
• Ability to oversee consultants developing data tools, back-end products, and front-end software that power the City Ratings program, Bicycle Network Analysis (BNA) tool, Recreational Access tool, and National Bike Project Tracker.
• Our office is ADA-accessible. This role will require the use of a laptop for several hours and the ability to lift and move packages.
• Strong customer service ethic and willingness to go above and beyond to help PeopleForBikes’ stakeholders. Understands who PeopleForBikes’ partners and customers are and what they value, and creates plans for meeting expectations.
• Collaborative approach with internal and external partners.
• Discretion in handling confidential information.
• Self-directed with a strong work ethic, organizational skills, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills. Able to work independently and meet deadlines while managing multiple projects and deadlines.
• Willingness to travel for meetings, conferences, trainings, and site visits.
• Commitment to safe, healthy, reliable, and affordable access to bicycling for all.
  

Desired Qualifications:

• Knowledge about and passion for bicycling

Compensation and Benefits
This “at-will” position offers a competitive salary commensurate with experience. The title and salary range will be decided based on the applicant selected with a range of $65,000 to $80,000. PeopleForBikes offers an excellent and comprehensive benefits package, including paid health insurance for employees, a generous paid-time-off (PTO) policy including 23 days plus federal holidays, paid parental leave, a flexible work schedule including work from home options, and optional participation in a deferred compensation retirement plan with immediate vesting of a competitive employer match. In addition, we provide long-term disability insurance, a cell phone plan, and a laptop computer along with many other benefits like industry discounts. As icing on the cake, PeopleForBikes also pays you to ride your bike.

At PeopleForBikes, our agreed-upon set of team norms are what drives us to do our best every day we show up to work. Our core purpose is to make life great and our core values are to put others first, include everyone, and it can always be better. We’ll talk more in the interview process about what these mean, but for now, know that we continually strive to build and strengthen our team, we work together effectively to serve our mission, and we have fun. Beyond that, we’re casual, we work flexibly with remote work allowed, and we really love dogs. You don’t have to be an amazing bike rider to work here — what matters to us is a desire to work alongside passionate people improving the world through bikes (and hopefully you love bikes too).

Location

PeopleForBikes is based in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. This position can be remote. However, if you are in the Denver metro area, we require people to be in the office about two days per month. We encourage people to come in on Thursdays with lunch and bike rides.

To Apply

• Interested candidates should apply here. Please submit your application by September 22 for priority consideration. You will be contacted by a PeopleForBikes team member if your application is selected to move on to the next round.
• Due to volume, we will not respond to telephone or in-person inquiries.
• Incomplete applications will not be considered.
• The position is available immediately and will remain open until the position is filled.
• Interested applicants are encouraged to visit peopleforbikes.org for general information and organizational background.

Equal Opportunity

Our work to create safer, more comfortable, and more accessible places for everyone to bike starts with us. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to hiring a diverse workforce. You can find more on our hiring page here. We want our staff to be reflective of the backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives of the communities we serve and to create an inclusive work environment where employees and the communities we serve feel welcomed, valued, respected, and received. We believe that no matter who you are, where you're from, or why you ride, everyone can find joy on a bicycle.