Technical Project Manager

Citylitics delivers predictive intelligence on local utility & public infrastructure markets

What is Infrastructure? It is the roadways you rely on to safely get to Grandma's house, it's the potable water that comes out of your kitchen tap that you wash your family's food with and it's the energy that heats our homes and powers our digital lifestyles.

Every year, trillions of dollars are spent on all areas of infrastructure to maintain our quality life and move our economy forward. However, our infrastructure is no longer equipped to meet the needs of the future. We hear about infrastructure failures, whether bridge collapses, power blackouts, or water main breaks, every day in the news. Climate change and extreme weather events are disrupting the basic infrastructure we took for granted for years.

Citylitics is solving the hardest data problems in infrastructure while building the sales intelligence platform that enables a faster, more transparent, and more efficient infrastructure marketplace. We turn millions of unstructured documents into high value intelligence feeds and datasets that are available on an intuitive user experience. Our goal is to enable solution providers to connect with cities with relevant infrastructure needs in a faster and more digital way than historic market channels. As more companies adopt our platform, cities & utilities will be able to access solutions that deliver on the promise of moving towards a more resilient, sustainable, and equitable infrastructure future.

Who Are We Looking For?

We are seeking a highly motivated/organized Technical Project Manager (TPM) to join our team. The ideal candidate will have a technical background, excellent project management skills, and a deep understanding of software development processes. You will be instrumental in coordinating our technical projects between Product Managers and Developers, ensuring they are completed within deadlines and meet our high standards of quality.

Requirements

What Will You Accomplish?

• Data-driven, hands-on experience with writing/optimizing SQL queries for analyzing/validating data
• Identify risks and implement mitigation strategies to ensure projects’ success
• Own technical projects from requirements gathering to feature release
• Author and maintain product behaviour guides and other project/technical documentation
• Ensure product requirements has been translated from initiatives to maintainable software behaviours for implementation
• Manage scheduled software releases and project metric reports
• Be point of contact for cross-functional initiatives, ensuring dependency tracking, project alignment between developers, product managers and data engineers
• Facilitate agile/scrum, from grooming, stand-ups to team demos and retrospectives
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• 2+ years of hands-on experience with software development or data engineering (SQL, Python, React …etc)
• 1+ years of experience in Technical Project Management or related field
• An proactive agilist that advocates for team members and customers alike
• Process oriented, strong understanding of agile methodologies and software development life cycle
• Excellent problem-solving, organizational, and analytical thinking
• Proficient with project management tools and processes (Jira, Excel/Sheets)
• Strong oral/written communication skills, with the ability to interact effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
  

Bonus Qualifications / What Gives You an Edge

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

• Experience in a scale up environment or fast-paced tech environment

• Experience with cloud technologies and modern web development practices

• A passion for product and technology, and an eagerness to contribute to a team-oriented environment

• PMP, Agile, or Scrum certification

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of the top 15 innovative analytics startups in Canada revolutionizing data intelligence
• This is a rare opportunity to influence positive change within one of the biggest societal challenges of our generation: sustainable public infrastructure
• You get to support a disruptive solution with a compelling value proposition into an industry that is eager to hear from you and in a market with no direct competition.
• We live at the cross section of infrastructure, scaleup and data science/AI. There is no other team like us in Toronto.
• There is no corporate bureaucracy here. You will accomplish more here in a few months than what you would in a few years at a large, entrenched technology company.
• We believe that Data and AI will play an outsized role in our future, so we equip every team member with access to Generative AI tools and our full Data Universe to enhance their productivity and encourage innovation through experimentation.
• We are proud to offer every CityZen an internal mentorship program, in-role professional growth, skill-based development & learning, and internal promotion opportunities.
• We work hard, we play together, we win as a team! We are on a mission to solve infrastructure while savoring the moment and celebrating the little details along the way.