Jr. Technical Project Manager

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About Us

Born out of frustration with the traditional cash register business, ShopKeep was designed by a retailer with a noble aim: to rescue independent business owners from the nightmare of archaic point of sale systems, and replace it with something beautiful, simple and affordable. It turned out that by doing this, we were giving our fellow merchants a fighting chance against the big guys. So we kept doing it.

Today, our mission is simple: Empower independent business owners to dream big and fight smart. We’re doing this by disrupting the industry through our cloud-based architecture, amazing customer care and intuitive software that delivers the data small business owners need to run a smarter businesses.

At ShopKeep, we’ve been successful because of our awesome team that believes small businesses make up the heart of their communities. If you want to defend the independent spirit of “Main Street”, you’ve found your kind of people.

About This Role

ShopKeep seeks a Jr. Technical Project Manager to deliver ambitious outcomes against a pipeline of cross-functional technology initiatives.

The successful candidate will possess strong analytical reasoning and interpersonal skills, efficient time management practices, and a keen sense for managing projects to predictable, successful outcomes.

At ShopKeep, we run technology projects with light, tight-knit teams. You should be comfortable negotiating with executives, managing external partnerships, writing stellar user stories, and allocating teams for optimal performance -- whatever it takes to help our engineers and product managers ship excellent releases on time and on budget. 

This is a full-time role available in our New York or Belfast office. We'd like to get to know you as soon as possible.

What You Will Do

  • Manage ShopKeep’s delivery and release cadence (we ship daily and release every two weeks).
  • Ensure on time delivery and uncompromising product quality.
  • Plot out engineering schedules in an extremely clear and detailed manner.  (Use any software you want)
  • Build and assign engineering tasks.
  • Mentor your teams!  Develop a positive team dynamic and help safeguard our collaborative work environment.

What You Need

  • 2 – 4 years experience delivering challenging projects through full lifecycle iteration.
  • A solid understanding of web and mobile development best practices.  
  • Flexible approach suited for a process-light environment.  Draw from your knowledge of agile methodologies to get stuff done.
  • Exemplary communication skills.  Be ready to build consensus among opinionated engineers, executives, and everyone in between.
  • Ability to grasp the fundamentals of modern storefront and payment technology.
  • A collaborative attitude and the desire to participate in thoughtful, open debate. 

Our Offer

  • An elite, highly collaborative, fun-loving team
  • A key role in building an intuitive, meaningful product — one your parents will understand and have probably used before.
  • An opportunity to help shape culture at one of best technology departments in NYC.
  • Unlimited PTO
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • Opportunity to focus and work on the problems you want to
  • Career growth: ShopKeepers are on the move!
  • Benefits package: subsidized health, dental, vision plans
  • NYC startup perks: catered lunch, bagels, yoga, bootcamp, meditation, beer on tap, game nights

 

ShopKeep is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Location

143 Varick Street, New York, NY 10013

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