Location: Helsinki

Join Maptionnaire to make cities better places to live!

Ready to move from planning to action?

Maybe you’re working at a consultancy, involved in exciting urban projects, but wishing you had more freedom to follow through. Maybe you’re researching citizen participation, wondering how to create real-world impact. Or maybe you’ve been in the world of urban data, maps, and people long enough to feel it: this work could ✨change how cities are built.✨

At the same time, you love setting goals and reaching them. You get a kick out of making things move, solving challenges, and seeing your efforts turn into visible results. You want your work to matter and to be measurable. Whether it’s supporting dozens of clients successfully or helping grow the business, you take pride in doing things well and with purpose.

If that sounds like you – visionary and practical, idealistic and action-oriented – you might be just the person we’re looking for.

Key points about the role at a glance

✅ Use your background in urban planning, geography or community engagement to support real change in cities around the world.

✅ Collaborate with international clients, especially American and European urban planning professionals in English.

✅ Earn a base salary of €3500–4500/month, with bonuses for helping customers grow their use of Maptionnaire’s software tool.

✅ Work from our welcoming Helsinki office with the flexibility of a hybrid setup that suits your rhythm.

✅ Step into a small but growing team where your voice matters and your ideas shape the way we make our customers thrive.

✅ Work alongside passionate founders and colleagues who care deeply about making participation more inclusive. And about having fun at work too!

✅ This role is for someone who thrives in action. If you love people, maps, and making things better, you’ll feel at home here.

Your future role in a nutshell

🚀 Use your urban expertise in a new way. Our clients are experts, and so are you. Your ability to speak their language and understand their needs is your superpower.

🤝 Build wide impact, not just one project at a time. You might have worked with a couple of clients at once. Here, you’ll have a broad portfolio. It’s a challenge, but also an opportunity to shape many cities, every single day.

🌍 Join a team that’s deeply mission-driven. Founded by two researchers, we’re in this to make participatory planning better. Our tool is already used around the world, and you’ll be part of growing that impact.

What a typical week might look like

• Supporting new customers as they launch their first Maptionnaire project

• Checking in with a city planner in California or a consultancy in Denmark about their next use case

• Spotting opportunities to deepen collaboration, and working with our sales team to make them real

• Bringing customer feedback to our product team so we can build better tools

Feeling the buzz when you see your clients succeed and say: “This is what participation should feel like.”

You’ll thrive with us if you...

• Get excited about people, places, and participation

• Have worked in or studied urban planning, human geography, geoinformatics, or a similar field

• Are comfortable managing multiple client relationships at once (yes, your portfolio might be 100+ clients, but you’ll have great systems, teammates, and support!)

• Speak and write fluent English: many of our customers are in the US

• Enjoy flexible working hours and collaborating across time zones (2–3 evenings a week are part of the rhythm)

• Want to be part of a warm, committed, slightly quirky team 💚

What we offer

💰 Base salary of €3500–4500/month, plus bonuses tied to customer growth, which is also your key success metric in this role.

🧘 Flexibility and hybrid work. Your time, your rhythm.

🌱 A mission-led company with strong financial footing and international growth

👩‍🔬 A collaborative culture with space for creativity and experimentation

🍽️ Lunch benefit, health care, high-quality tools, and yes, ice cream and xylitol pastilles at the office.

About Maptionnaire

At Maptionnaire, we believe cities should be built for the people who live in them. That’s why our mission is to empower communities and local governments to collaborate and create better places to live. Founded in 2011 as a spin-off from Aalto University, we’ve grown into a trusted partner for hundreds of organizations globally, helping them engage with their communities through innovative digital tools.

Our clientele includes consulting firms specializing in urban planning, as well as municipal authorities and organizations focused on city development. Together with our clients, we place strong emphasis on promoting sustainability and fostering the development of greener cities by enhancing public participation in urban planning projects.

We’re proud to be in strong financial health, with steady growth and a clear path forward. With an ARR of over €1M, Maptionnaire is on an upward trajectory, and we’re gearing up for significant expansion in both our customer base and product offerings. Our vision for the future is ambitious but achievable: becoming the leading platform for community engagement, while tripling our revenue by 2026.

What truly sets us apart is our culture. We’re a close-knit team of curious, driven experts who value openness and inclusivity. While we work hard to achieve our goals, we also know how to have fun – whether it’s sharing quirky hobbies, collaborating on creative projects, or connecting over coffee breaks.

Joining Maptionnaire means becoming part of a team that genuinely cares about making a difference. If you’re looking for a workplace where your ideas are valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions are celebrated, you’ve found the right place. Help us shape the future of community engagement, one city at a time!

How to apply

Are you the right fit?

To become our next Community Engagement Manager, we’re looking for someone with the following qualifications and skills:

1. Experience in working with various clients or stakeholders, whether through consulting, research, or project-based collaboration. You know how to navigate different perspectives and keep things moving forward.

2. A background in urban planning, geography, participation, or community engagement, or a strong interest in making cities more inclusive and people-focused.

3. Strong communication skills in English: you're confident explaining ideas clearly and adapting your message across time zones and professional backgrounds.

4. A proactive, hands-on approach. You like taking initiative, solving problems, and pushing things forward. You're not afraid of doing the groundwork to achieve results.

5. A goal-driven mindset: you get energy from seeing your work make a real difference for customers, and you're motivated by helping them succeed and grow.

6. Commercial drive. You’re excited about identifying upsell opportunities and turning them into concrete results in collaboration with the sales team. Hitting sales targets and contributing to business growth isn’t a side note, it’s a part of what inspires you.

7. The ability to connect the dots between people, participation, and technology, and to translate that into smart, strategic use of our platform.

If this sounds like something you’re looking for, we’re looking forward to hearing from you. Don’t hesitate to contact us and learn more about joining our team. If you don’t have any further questions at this point, apply by 22.6.2025 by leaving your application through this page.

If you’re thinking of applying – we encourage you to do so sooner rather than later, as we will start going through the applications as they come in, and we’re looking to fill this role as soon as we find a mutual fit.

What to expect after sending in your application?

• Our recruiter Linda will be your first point of contact, and will keep you up to date on the process. Should you have any questions, feel free to reach out to Linda at linda@talentbee.io.

• You’ll first have an intro video call with Linda.

• After that, you’ll get to meet our COO Anna Broberg and CEO Maarit Kahila, first remotely and then at our office.

• We’ll include a role-related case task to help you become more familiar with what the job is like in practice.

• Team meeting: You’ll meet some of your potential new colleagues from Maptionnaire’s team!

• Finally, after the discussions, we’ll make you a job offer.

• Welcome to Maptionnaire – we are looking forward to working with you! We hope that as our new Community Engagement Manager, you can start working with us as soon as possible, ideally already in Autumn 2025.