All Things Urban

Sidewalk Labs is an urban innovation company that tackles cities' greatest challenges. We create products and solutions, invest in new companies, and help developers build more sustainable, innovative, and equitable places around the world. Our ambitious vision requires us to push ourselves beyond conventional thinking, and we work hard in pursuit of our mission. Our cross-disciplinary team consists of experts from real estate, urban planning, government, finance, technology, and engineering, among other backgrounds. Our urban innovations include Delve (a generative design product that empowers real estate teams to design better, faster, with less risk), Mesa (an easy-install kit for commercial buildings that cuts energy costs, improves tenant comfort, and simplifies building operations), Pebble (a low-cost vehicle sensor to help manage parking and curb space), and Affordable Electrification (a new way to manage home energy use to meet a customer’s monthly budget). We're also developing an offsite construction company that can deliver high-quality mass timber buildings for more sustainable living and working. With the potential to radically improve quality of life in cities for all, our work is both exciting and complex. We are working to achieve something unprecedented — help us build it!

We are looking for a strong Associate, who will support, take charge of initiatives, and work across the team and workstream. You will report directly to the Director of Sustainability, Charlotte and have dotted line reporting to the Associate Director. The role is meant as a utility player, and provide leverage for the Director, with typical work being: - Corresponding with stakeholders; reaching out to researchers, academics, tech companies as required by the group. Providing information about the project and soliciting engagement. - General research and exploration of new products, vendors and technologies as directed by the team, and at times supporting our technology teams in the same - Project Management for delivery of the Sustainability plan and content for Toronto, including processing, tracking and addressing edits, comments, and visuals - Create slide decks and one-pagers, e.g. summarizing strategy, work plans, pitches and budgets - Coordinate team meetings, handle incoming solicitations, and help the team function efficiently and effectively - Market mapping and technology exploration to address sustainability issues impacting sites outside of Toronto Beyond the above, we expect that over time, you will generate and lead other projects, e.g. making our own office more sustainable with green purchasing and carbon accounting.

After 3 months, you have… - Been instrumental in the team’s delivery of a world-class Master Innovation and Development Plan (MIDP) chapter. You have generated narratives and slide decks for meetings with government and other stakeholders that summarize the strategy with particular attention to their domains. - Directed the team’s delivery against our OKRs, led several months worth of team meetings, and kept colleagues and executives outside of the Sustainability team up to date on our projects. Initiated and overseen the development of scopes and contracts for new consultants and consultant extensions. You wrote the scope based upon a list of bullets from the Director, and pushed the process through Legal and Procurement. - Identified 10 projects where a new technology had been implemented and spoke to several customers to confirm that it worked. You uncovered a cost of operation that had not been discussed by the vendor. Within 6 months, you have… - Become the person to whom the company turns first for concise updates and input from the Sustainability team, often in the form of strategy slide decks . Your work needs few edits, and you not only have a complete understanding of the Sidewalk Toronto Sustainability strategy, but can determine what does and does not apply to sites outside of Toronto for the purpose of business development. - Scoped and contracted out market mapping of new technologies and ideas for a water conservation strategy that would be applicable for a Sidewalk development/ planning exercise in an area of the world with water-scarcity. - Edited, wordsmithed and inserted visuals for two infrastructure RFP’s, and managed the distribution and answer/response process. - With support and supervision by the Associate Director, created a pool of interns and consultants to whom you direct research and writing projects needed by the team to save yourself time and energy. You have a small budget that you manage to maximize time efficiency and value. - Begun working with Engineering, Operations and other colleagues to develop an ongoing carbon footprint and energy cost tracking tool, and compare it to our aspirations for commercial tenant energy use of Quayside. This is a side project for all involved, but the team is motivated and making progress.

At Sidewalk Labs, our Associates typically have a few years of relevant experience, have proven that they can accomplish great things, and are excited to bring their abilities to our ambitious and hard work. Below are some of the key things we care about for this role: Sustainability focus and experience incl. technical fluency: - Broad understanding of sustainability issues and familiarity with green building. - Understand the role of different building systems and comfort with technical terms and concepts. - Experience in the application or advocacy of using data and technology to advance sustainability goals, and a healthy skepticism of claims made in the marketplace. Independent operator: - Deep curiosity and self starter; inclined to seek out answers before asking for help and to independently verify surprising information before passing it along. - Hard worker and detail-oriented while keeping the bigger picture and larger goals top of mind. - Individual contributor with a team-player attitude and deference. Identifies and initiates their next steps without direction, while providing excellent stakeholder communication to support coordination and enable feedback. Effective project manager: - Demonstrated ability to manage projects, consultants and interns who may be of equal or greater experience and seniority. Excellent writer and slide crafter. - Knowledge of PPT/ Google Slides. Ability to translate complex ideas into clear visuals and outlines.

The community of the future is a place for everyone, and Sidewalk Labs is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All employment is based on merit and business need.

This job is available for international candidates.