Quality Compliance Program Manager
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Mapbox is seeking a Quality Compliance Program Manager to own ISO 9001 and SOC2, lead ASPICE SPICE programs, and unify quality and compliance across the company. You’ll advise engineering and product teams, work with automotive OEMs to align on expectations, manage a database of commitments, and coordinate audits. The role requires at least five years in quality compliance and hands on experience with ISO 9001, ASPICE, SPICE, SOC2 and TISAX, plus a proven ability to translate standards into practical processes. To apply, tailor your resume to audit success, cross functional collaboration, and documentation discipline, and demonstrate proactive communication in ambiguous environments.
Mapbox is the leading real-time location platform for a new generation of location-aware businesses. Mapbox is the only platform that equips organizations with the full set of tools to power the navigation of people, packages, and vehicles everywhere. More than 4 million registered developers have chosen Mapbox because of the platform’s flexibility, security and privacy compliance. Organizations use Mapbox applications, data, SDKs and APIs to create customized and immersive experiences that delight their customers.
What We Do
The Quality and Compliance team establishes, maintains, and continuously improves the process landscape across Mapbox, ensuring alignment with critical industry quality and process standards, including ISO 9001, IATF, VDA TISAX, and ASPICE/SPICE. Our core mandate is the systematic oversight of quality assurance across engineering and product development. This function maintains a keen focus on achieving process excellence and executing activities such as ASPICE SUP.1 (Software Quality Assurance) to formally verify rigorous compliance with defined organizational standards and stringent customer requirements. We provide expert advisory and support to development teams to foster a high-quality, secure, and privacy-compliant location platform. Furthermore, the team is responsible for planning, conducting, and supporting internal and external audits and assessments, ensuring that our compliance certifications are maintained and our quality processes are robustly validated.
We adhere to the following principles to ensure exceptional quality for both our customers and our colleagues:
Process Integrity: We maintain a disciplined focus on process adherence and maturity, ensuring all operations align with the latest industry quality standards and compliance commitments.
Quality Assurance: We proactively support engineering teams with quality assurance activities, enabling rapid, secure, and compliant development through standardized processes and customized tooling. We act as trusted advisors for ASPICE and other related industry standards.
Customer Trust: We build and maintain customer trust by verifying our robust security, privacy, and quality environment through rigorous, industry-standard certification and compliance programs.
Unified Standard: We strive to simplify and unify quality and compliance requirements across all Mapbox operations, ensuring clarity, consistency, and ease of execution for all teams.
What You'll Do
As a member of our diverse and globally distributed team, you’ll play an advisory role across the whole company. You will help Mapbox to align and comply with quality standards, covering ISO 9001, IATF, VDA, and ASPICE/SPICE requirements. You will have the opportunity to work directly with our largest automotive customers to ensure that we have the appropriate quality measures for the products and services that we deliver to millions of drivers around the world. These measures are reflected in our compliance certifications, and other audit and assessment programs directly with our customers.
Own ISO 9001 and SOC2 compliance certification
Own ASPICE/SPICE requirements internally, consulting on implementation across the company.
Own a database of relevant process compliance commitments made.
Program manage the implementation of those commitments across different parts of the company (across Mapbox)
Escalate as needed to drive executive alignment on the ways we will meet OEM expectations.
Provide first level responses on RFQs as they relate to Quality, describing our company’s technical function.
Prepare documentation/materials describing our process for various audit/submittal processes run by OEMs.
Prepare for, prepare the team for, and attend in-person audits, representing Mapbox.
What We Believe are Important Traits for This Role
Experience with ISO 9001, ASPICE, SPICE, SOC2 and TISAX compliance standards
5 years of experience in a quality compliance related role
Experience implementing Quality & Compliance standards in an engineering-centric organization.
Clear and persuasive communication of complex and critical information to a broad audience.
Subject matter expertise in quality best practices and the ability to quickly make correct risk assessments that prioritize the overall benefit to the company.
A desire to share your expertise through documentation, mentorship, and both written and vocal discussion.
A personal drive to expand your comfort zone by exploring new and/or unfamiliar tasks and domains.
A desire to work with individuals with diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences.
Autonomy and proactivity around driving work to completion in the face of ambiguity.
Bachelor’s degree, with a technical emphasis a plus
What We Value
In addition to our core values, which are not unique to this position and are necessary for Mapbox leaders:
We value high-performing creative individuals who dig into problems and opportunities.
We believe in individuals being their whole selves at work. We commit to this through supportive health care, parental leave, flexibility for the things that come up in life, and innovating on how we think about supporting our people.
We emphasize an environment of teaching and learning to equip employees with the tools needed to be successful in their function and the company.
We strongly believe in the value of growing a diverse team and encourage people of all backgrounds, genders, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual orientations to apply.
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