We're Timbuk2, and we're building the intelligence, measurement, and field-truth layer for physical-world media. Our product, Pikaboo/CortexX, is transforming how media owners, agencies, and advertisers move from fragmented inventory toward trusted, data-rich planning and selling.

As our founding technical owner for mobility and measurement data products, you'll own the methodology, confidence labels, and production logic behind game-changing products like Footfall Intelligence, Site Profiles, Media Measurement Packs, and Attribution Methodology. This isn't a pure research or dashboarding role—it's for someone who can turn messy mobility, geospatial, and commercial data into defensible products people actually use.

You'll build mobility metrics from large-scale movement data, define confidence tiers and source lineage, work with AWS/Glue/Athena/PostGIS infrastructure, and leverage AI-native tools like Claude Code to accelerate development. You'll partner across product, engineering, and commercial teams, helping our strategists understand what metrics mean and creating the measurement foundation that makes Pikaboo a reusable data-product platform.

We're looking for strong Python/SQL skills, experience with mobility or geospatial data, statistical judgment, and the ability to explain uncertainty clearly to non-technical stakeholders. We're a remote-first team with strong overlap with South African working hours, and we prefer candidates in Cape Town/South Africa, though we'll hire the right person anywhere globally. You'll thrive here if you have high agency, commercial judgment, AI-native working habits, and can own ambiguous problems in an early-stage startup environment.

In your first 90 days, you'll deliver a measurement metric dictionary, Footfall Intelligence v1 methodology, confidence-tier framework, and a real proposal using defensible mixed-source metrics. Bonus points for OOH/DOOH, media measurement, or location-intelligence experience, plus familiarity with our tech stack (Postgres/PostGIS, AWS, Spark, dbt).