Careers Blog

One of the Top 10 Reasons to Work at ESRI: Work Environment

Careers-Team — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:10:00 GMT

Collaborative, creative, and empowering.

Teamwork is not just a cliché at ESRI. You will have opportunities to engage with others throughout the company, allowing you to exchange ideas, learn from each other, and leverage their skills to accomplish a task. You will thrive in a creative, challenging work environment that promotes autonomy and leadership. At ESRI, you will work with some of the brightest minds in the software industry.

Read the entire Top 10 list.

Hear from an ESRI Account Executive in New Video

Careers-Team — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:01:00 GMT

Have you ever wondered what it’s really like to be an Account Executive with ESRI? The careers team recently sat down with Caroline from our Charlotte regional office to get her thoughts on why she enjoys working with our customers and what it takes to be successful on our sales team. View video.

Learn more about a career in our Sales Division and search current openings. Opportunities are available in our regional offices across the U.S.

Have a question about career opportunities in Sales or a comment on the video? Let us know by leaving a comment to this post.

Follow "ESRIcareers" on Twitter

Careers-Team — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:14:00 GMT

Calling all Tweeters! The careers team is now using Twitter as an additional way of providing those interested in a career at ESRI with the latest news. Follow "ESRIcareers" to learn about new job postings, recruiting events, our work environment, and much more! We just launched yesterday, and you can see our first few posts at http://twitter.com/esricareers.

Hot Job: Consultant/Project Manager, Homeland Security - Redlands, CA and Washington, D.C.

Careers-Team — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:33:00 GMT

Use your experience in homeland security/emergency management to support and guide a large client from the initial planning and requirements stage of a project to full scale development and deployment activities. This is a challenging opportunity for an individual with domain expertise and proven success in project management to assist our client with implementing ESRI’s enterprise GIS technology.

Requirements include eight to 12+ years of significant proven experience, an understanding of emergency management and operations processes, the ability to lead and manage consulting and software development teams, and knowledge of software development methodologies. Apply today:

Hot Job: Localization Engineer

Careers-Team — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 20:56:00 GMT

Use your experience in localization engineering to drive the localization documentation process in collaboration with localization production managers. This is a challenging opportunity to work closely with documentation production and other team members to drive, implement, and document localizability and localization best practices. Our mission is to deliver localized high impact market/partner facing assets that continue to accelerate international user experience.

Requirements include a bachelor’s or master’s in computer science, information systems, GIS, or related field; two or more years of experience in localization engineering and documentation production process; and solid understanding of XML/HTML. Apply today.

Behind the Scenes of the ESRI International User Conference

Careers-Team — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:32:00 GMT

Ever wonder what happens behind the scenes while ESRI staff prepare for the annual ESRI International User Conference in San Diego? Check out a new photo album on the Official ESRI UC Facebook page that shows employees from different areas getting ready for the conference. Photos will continue to be added in the weeks ahead.

Will you be attending this year's conference July 13-17? Be sure to stop by the jobs@esri Island to learn about career opportunities in a number of areas throughout the company.

Lakers vs. Nuggets - A Tale of Two 3D Sketchup Stadiums

Careers-Team — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:24:00 GMT

See ArcGIS 3D Analyst in action in this blog post from the ArcGIS Explorer Team, and then check out our current openings for individuals with 3D visualization, navigation, and analysis experience:

Qualifications and responsibilities vary, but if you're looking for a challenging opportunity to assist in the development and testing of solutions for 3D GIS applications, these positions might be ideal for you.

Search all opportunities.

Seeking Software Development Programmer - Network Analyst

Careers-Team — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:08:00 GMT

Be a key technical member of the ArcGIS Network Analyst development team working to envision, design, and develop cutting-edge network analysis applications. This is a challenging opportunity to apply your strong computational background and solid software engineering skills to craft solutions for large-scale real-world problems. Envision, design, and implement network analysis and logistics algorithms for ESRI core products; provide cutting-edge network solutions for ESRI business partners and end users; and participate throughout the software development life cycle.

Requirements include a bachelor's, master's, or Ph.D. in computer science, logistics, or a GIS-related field; background in designing, analyzing, and developing network algorithms; and three or more years of experience in software engineering. Apply now.

Learn more about a career in Software Development at ESRI.

Visit ESRI at JavaOne

Careers-Team — Fri, 29 May 2009 14:54:00 GMT

Attending JavaOne in San Francisco? Be sure to stop by the ESRI booth (#827) in The Pavilion Monday through Thursday (June 1-4). In addition to learning about the latest ESRI/Java technologies, you can talk with booth staff about career opportunities for individuals with Java expertise such as software development programmers, test engineers, application developers, and support analysts.

Can't make it to the show? Learn about career opportunities at www.esri.com/javacareers.

Hot Job: Regional Manager, Minneapolis

Careers-Team — Tue, 26 May 2009 17:54:00 GMT

Be the prime driver for growing the use of GIS and ESRI software in our Minneapolis regional office. This is a challenging opportunity to utilize your proven sales and management success to lead dynamic teams dedicated to selling ESRI’s world-leading GIS software and help shape the full spectrum of our global sales activities. Develop regional goals and objectives that coincide with the national goals to achieve financial success for the region and provide executive leadership and guidance for all ESRI staff working in the region.

Requirements include a minimum of 10 years of sales and/or marketing experience in a technical field, a minimum of five years of experience managing a sales team, and knowledge of and experience using ESRI products. Apply now.

Hot Job: Telesales Manager

Careers-Team — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:52:00 GMT

Are you a seasoned manager who has outstanding communication skills and a customer-focused way of thinking? Apply these skills to manage our telesales team and assist customers with obtaining application and pricing information regarding ESRI products and services. Promote corporate sales objectives, messages, and directives and socialize them with the telesales team; manage and direct telesales activities through managing opportunities; and respond to a high volume of inbound calls from existing and potential customers.

Qualifications include a bachelor's or master's in marketing, business administration, an engineering component, or related field; two or more years of experience managing a team; a high level of professionalism and a true desire to help customers; and excellent written and verbal communication skills. Apply now.

New Flyer Details Federal/Defense/Intel Careers at ESRI

Careers-Team — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:01:00 GMT

Do you have experience in the federal/defense/intelligence industry? Utilize your domain knowledge on our federal team and make a difference in how our nation’s agencies analyze and manage critical information. A new flyer gives an overview of the positions available including Account Managers, Defense Applications Developers, Systems Architects, and Consultants/Project Managers. These positions are based primarily in our Washington, D.C. regional office and Redlands, California headquarters but opportunities are often available in other regional offices as well.

Search Tip: Because we have opportunities for professionals with federal/defense/intel experience in a number of different divisions, we suggest you use the Full Text Search function and enter specific keywords, for example "defense federal." This will enhance your search results.

Learn more about our federal team.

A Day in the Life of a Product Engineer

Careers-Team — Wed, 20 May 2009 15:44:00 GMT

Ever wonder what it's like to be part of one of our product development teams? We recently sat down with Nawajish Noman, lead product engineer on the ArcGIS Spatial Analyst and Geostatistical Analyst teams, for insight into what it’s like to work in Product Development at ESRI. In the interview he discusses what a typical day is like, the work environment, and the kinds of skills needed for his team.

The interview appears on page 61 of the latest issue of ArcUser.

We're always looking for experienced GIS professionals with a variety of skills, interests, and expertise to join our Product Development Division. Think you might be a fit?

Hot Job: GIS Analysts

Careers-Team — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:04:00 GMT

Bring your ideas and talent to a variety of product teams to design and build the next generation of ArcGIS products. Your contributions will have a real impact not only on the next generation of GIS technology and products, but also on society and the world, continuously extending the power of geography. This is a great opportunity to envision, design, and develop new software functionality and participate with management and development teams on planning for future releases.

In addition to a bachelor's or master's in computer science, GIS, or related field, candidates must have five or more years of experience implementing, applying, and using GIS in a number of advanced implementations and a high level of understanding of ESRI’s ArcGIS products and online services or other comparable GIS products. Apply now.

Hot Job: Database Developer, Washington, DC

Careers-Team — Tue, 12 May 2009 19:38:00 GMT

Utilize your programming experience and database expertise to support a variety of customers, large and small. Working in a collaborative team environment with consultants and customers, you will provide DBA expertise to design, implement, secure, maintain, and tune customers' database environments and provide programming to support application and middle tier developers.

Qualifications include proficiency in enterprise database administration with Oracle and/or SQL Server; experience in data modeling, database development, and enterprise database architecture; and strong programming skills and experience in data tier application development and ETL. Apply now.