About the role

We are looking for a Senior Project Manager to own end-to-end execution of real estate design and construction projects across our global portfolio. You will be the day-to-day operator on active projects, managing consultants, contractors, schedule, budget, and stakeholder coordination from intake through commissioning and close-out. You’ll hold the technical, commercial, and relational layers of delivery so that complex builds land on time, on budget, and on brief. The role is hybrid (in office 3 days/week) with travel to project sites (~20% expected). You’ll report to the Lead, Real Estate Project Management.

Responsibilities

- Own assigned projects from intake through commissioning and close-out.
- Build, maintain, and pressure-test the project schedule against milestones. Surface schedule risk early and propose mitigations.
- Own the project budget at the line-item level. Track committed versus forecast versus spend, manage change orders, and flag variances above tolerance.
- Maintain the project risk log and publish weekly status updates.
- Own project close-out documentation and lessons-learned capture.
- Draft, negotiate, and administer consultant and contractor agreements across architect, engineer, GC, sub-trades, and specialty vendors.
- Run RFPs and bid analysis for prime consultant and contractor selection on assigned projects.
- Issue and track POs, invoices, change orders, and payment certificates through procurement systems.
- Lead commercial negotiation on fees, scope, and business contract terms.
- Review consultant drawing packages at schematic, design development, and construction document stages for completeness, constructability, and alignment to brief.
- Mark up architectural, mechanical, and electrical drawings for coordination and conflict resolution.
- Pressure-test consultant timelines and scope assumptions before they are accepted.
- Coordinate technical reviews with internal stakeholders across Facilities, IT, AV, Security, Brand, and Marketing.
- Manage prime consultant and GC relationships through the full project lifecycle.
- Coordinate sub-trade scope across millwork, AV, IT, lighting, and FF&E.;
- Hold consultants accountable to deliverables, deadlines,



and contract terms, and resolve performance issues directly.
- Keep internal Shopify stakeholders aligned through the build, across Facilities, IT, Brand, Events, Security, Culinary, and Port Operations.
- Lead project meetings including kickoff, weekly site, and owner-architect-contractor coordination.
- Conduct site visits at key milestones including mobilization, in-wall, finishes, and punch list.
- Coordinate with on-site port operations to compress disruption windows during live-port construction.
- Use the team's internal AI tools and agents to accelerate day-to-day execution.
- Build net-recent agents and AI-enabled workflows that accelerate execution and deepen the technical layer of the project process.
- Own weekly status updates for cross-functional stakeholders, covering schedule, budget, risks, and decisions.
- Translate project status into exec-ready content for leadership decks and updates.

Qualifications

- 5 to 7+ years of construction project management experience, preferably in commercial fit-out, hospitality, or office build environments.
- PMP certification.
- Demonstrated ownership of multi-million-dollar capital projects from design through close-out.
- Strong contract administration and commercial negotiation experience.
- Comfort reading and reviewing architectural, mechanical, and electrical drawing sets.
- Strong written communication, with the ability to translate site complexity into executive-ready summaries.
- Comfort working across multiple time zones, vendors, and internal stakeholders, and the judgment to know when to escalation.
- Client-side project management experience, with the perspective of representing the client through design and construction rather than executing as the GC.
- Demonstrated ability to manage risk and escalate effectively,



with examples of preventing or recovering schedule and budget impacts on complex builds.

Preferred Qualifications

- Commercial construction background, with extensive experience on boutique projects (hospitality, premium retail, or design-led commercial fit-out) where design intent, craft, and finish detail set the bar.
- Familiarity with AutoCAD, Revit, and Procore.
- Experience executing projects across multiple jurisdictions in North America and Europe.
- Hands‑on experience with AI tooling such as Claude or custom agents as part of everyday project delivery.

About Shopify

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. We propel entrepreneurs and enterprises to scale the heights of their potential. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 8,300 employees and generated over $1 trillion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

- Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
- Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
- Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
- Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
- Bring critical thought and opinion
- Put AI agents and tools to work on the tasks they're built for, and focus on the work only humans can do
- Embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
- Work digital-first for your daily work

We may use AI-enabled tools to screen, select, and assess applications. All AI outputs are reviewed and validated by our recruitment team.

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📌 Senior Project Manager - Contract Position (Toronto)
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📍 Toronto