Product Manager - Data Structures

About Citylitics Inc.
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 an experienced Product Manager who is passionate about transforming fragmented data into a strategic, scalable asset. This person will own the vision for how we structure and utilize data to build data products and features that directly benefit our customers.

You must possess a Product Development or Software background with a keen interest in Data Structuring and Schema Design. A deep technical understanding of data structures, data design best practices, and the ability to think critically about both data scalability and customer experience are highly desired. If you thrive at the intersection of data engineering, product strategy, and user impact, this role is for you.

The position will be out of our Toronto Headquarters.

What Will You Accomplish?

This is a foundational role where you will be instrumental in centralizing and standardizing our data initiatives, which are currently fragmented across multiple teams.
You will:

• Manage the Roadmap for Core Data Models: Prioritize and define requirements for data structure improvements, ensuring they are robust, scalable, and aligned with upcoming product needs.
• Bridge Data and Customer Value: Translate complex data capabilities into tangible, valuable product features, ensuring that the introduction of any new data point is meaningful and seamless for the customer.
• Implement Foundational Data Systems: Develop and organize the data dictionaries, schemas, and associated value governance that will be foundational for all products and internal analytics across Citylitics.
• Drive Data Standardization: Lead the effort to take fragmented, free-form data assets, and add structure and consistent treatment, evolving initial small-scale process operations into robust, production-grade pipelines.
• Ensure Scalability and Quality: Partner closely with Data Engineering and Product teams to ensure data feature builds are not only scalable from an engineering standpoint but also optimized for data quality and integrity.

• 2+ years of experience as a Product Manager, Software Engineer, Data Analyst, or equivalent role with demonstrated product ownership responsibilities.
• Demonstrated Interest and Experience in Data Organization, Data Structuring, Data Design, or Data Modeling with meaningful outcomes (e.g., improving feature performance, reducing data latency, increasing data fidelity).
• Strong technical understanding of the advantages and limitations of different data modeling paradigms (SQL/NoSQL) and database designs.
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, and business stakeholders to define requirements and deliver data-centric products.
• Experience in designing processes to standardize, clean, and enrich data assets from diverse sources.
• Other duties as assigned

Why Citylitics?

• 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.

Citylitics is an equal opportunity employer. We are passionate about providing a safe workplace where everyone is accepted and has the opportunity to grow with us. We are committed to making diversity and inclusivity part of our culture!