NYC Mayor Mamdani hires 'tech crew': Here's what they will actually do

New York City has opened applications for a new kind of government job. Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Monday that the city is recruiting software engineers, product designers, product managers, user researchers, service designers and data experts to staff what he is calling Public Interest Technology Crews—PIT Crews, a pun the mayor committed to by rolling up to the Coney Island go-kart track to make the announcement.The hiring is funded and specific. A City Hall spokesperson confirmed around 30 full-time roles across four crews, supported by $5.24 million in baseline funding in the mayor's new fiscal budget. The listings are live at nyc.gov/pitcrew.NYC mayor wants his ‘tech crew’ to build city software from inside the agencyA PIT Crew is a mixed team—engineers, designers, product managers, user researchers and data experts—placed alongside staff at a city agency rather than parked in a separate technology department.