Technical Project Manager

Skip to main content Technical Project Manager We Make Change New York City Metropolitan Area Technical Project Manager We Make Change New York City Metropolitan Area 6 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants See who We Make Change has hired for this role No longer accepting applications Report this job Volunteer for a startup breaking down tech barriers for social-good organizations! 💻✨Making Biscuits Collective provides affordable digital services to non-profits and social-impact organizations through volunteer networks and flexible, sliding-scale pricing.The Challenge: Non-profits and grassroots social-impact organizations face an immense financial barrier when trying to build essential digital infrastructure due to the exorbitant costs of traditional tech agencies. Commercial development, design, and product management services are frequently priced at inflated market rates that exploit resource-strapped teams. This economic gatekeeping forces "do-good" organizations to either compromise on the quality of their technology or divert critical funding away from their core community missions, ultimately widening the digital divide and limiting the real-world scale of social change.The Solution: Making Biscuits Collective bridges this technological gap by assembling a dedicated network of skilled engineers, developers, designers, and product managers who deliver high-quality digital solutions through volunteerism and sliding-scale models. By matching premium technical expertise with flexible pricing, we ensure that modern digital tools are no longer a luxury reserved exclusively for high-budget corporations. Our collective framework empowers impact-driven organizations to optimize their software, elevate their brand design, and maximize their world-changing potential without facing financial exploitation.Role (Volunteer, unpaid): Technical Project ManagerRole Description: We're looking for an organised and driven Technical Project Manager to help guide our pro-bono non-profit engineering efforts. Currently, we are working with CultureHouse to build an application for recording urban observation data, and we need someone to own the product roadmap and keep our development team unblocked. Please note that all volunteer roles are Making Biscuits are structured around your availability. This role is for someone who wants to volunteer contributions to a large project over time on their own schedule, who is comfortable scoping their own work and goals, and enjoys collaborating with others.About the ProjectObserve is an urban planning application built in partnership with CultureHouse, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to improving livability in local communities by transforming underutilized spaces into vibrant social infrastructure.Observe allows CultureHouse volunteers and staff to seamlessly record, edit, and view urban planning data tailored to their specific collection methods and visualizations. While we are currently building this for CultureHouse, our long-term vision is to scale and deploy Observe to multiple non-profits, multiplying its community impact.About the RoleAs our engineering team grows, we need a dedicated Technical Project Manager to own the product timeline so our developers can focus entirely on execution. You will serve as the bridge between our non-profit partners and our software engineers.This is a highly collaborative, open-ended volunteer role. We do not...