The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time—but it’s also the
greatest opportunity for innovation, and a challenge we’re proud to take on. At
Overstory, we’re harnessing cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient
electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes.
The grid is the backbone of life as we know it. It powers hospitals, keeps food
fresh, and ensures communities stay connected. But extreme weather, aging
infrastructure, and growing wildfire risks are putting this critical system
under pressure. All of this combined makes the electric utility industry the
greatest opportunity for tackling climate change.
One of the leading causes of catastrophic wildfires and power outages? Trees and
brush coming into contact with power lines.
That’s where we help. At Overstory, we use AI and advanced satellite imagery to
pinpoint and prioritize vegetation risks before they materialize. By giving
utilities critical analysis on those risks, we’re helping prevent outages,
reduce wildfire risks, and accelerate the transition to a safer, more resilient
grid.
Our team spans the Americas and Europe, and we work with utility partners across
the Americas and beyond. We’re outdoor enthusiasts, musicians, artists,
athletes, parents, and adventurers—15 nationalities strong and growing. What
unites us is a passion for solving complex problems, a commitment to climate
action, and the belief that technology should be a force for good.
Join us to help us build a more resilient world together.
THE ROLE
Overstory is hiring a senior AI/ML leader to shape the future of our intelligent
systems that power critical environmental insights. Our AI capabilities
currently drive three key product areas: wildfire prevention modeling, utility
planning decision support, and actionable vegetation risk insights. Your
leadership will establish the technical foundation and processes that make our
ML systems more robust, scalable, and impactful over time.
As a key member of Overstory's technical leadership team, you'll build and guide
a team of ML engineers and data scientists while helping grow a thriving,
mission-driven business. You'll collaborate closely with cross-functional
partners (engineering, product, design, customer success) to develop AI
solutions that deliver exceptional value to customers and set new industry
benchmarks for environmental intelligence.
Looking for an opportunity to drive AI innovation while creating technology that
protects our planet? We'd love to hear your story.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
- Lead and Empower: Drive key AI initiatives across product areas, fostering a
culture of technical excellence and empowering ML engineers to push
boundaries.
- Provide AI Vision: Offer strategic guidance on model architecture, data
strategy, and ML operations to ensure alignment with Overstory's long-term
goals.
- Champion Company Values: Actively embody Overstory's core values, nurturing a
positive team culture within your group and advocating for responsible AI
practices.
- Support Growth: Hold regular 1:1s to mentor team members, helping them
develop both technical depth and career growth; participate in interviewing
and hiring senior ML engineers and managers.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with software engineering,
design, customer success, and product teams to integrate AI capabilities that
advance Overstory's product vision.
- Enhance Organizational Design: Proactively refine ML team structures and work
with leadership to optimize the distribution of AI expertise across the
organization.
- Mentor and Contribute to Leadership: Actively participate in the leadership
community, offering technical mentorship and providing peer support to
elevate company-wide AI capabilities.
ABOUT YOU
- Passionate about applying AI to climate and environmental challenges
- Experience working in a high-growth startup/scaleup environment
- Experience in geospatial deep learning and a related field (ecology,
environmental sciences, weather, climate)
- Proven track record leading AI/ML teams, with 5+ years managing and
developing technical ML leaders
- Track record building psychological safety and transparent communication in
technical teams
- Substantial hands-on ML engineering background with expertise in
productionizing models and implementing continuous learning, evaluation, and
deployment pipelines
- Strategic mindset for navigating AI complexity while maintaining focus on
real-world impact
- Demonstrated success scaling ML organizations in high-growth environments
- Track record of successful remote-first team leadership
NICE-TO-HAVES
- Experience with satellite or aerial imagery analysis
- Experience integrating ML systems with production software platforms
- Track record of responsible AI development, including fairness,
interpretability, and model governance
- Experience managing ML infrastructure and operational costs at scale
- History of successful cross-functional collaboration with research and
science teams
- Experience communicating technical ML concepts to enterprise customers
If you don’t meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply
anyway.
WHAT YOU GET
- To be part of truly mission-driven work that reduces wildfires, protects
earth’s natural resources and helps solve our climate crisis.
- Flexible working environment with a lot of autonomy. We build our work days
around our lives, not the other way around.
- Other benefits like a remote working budget, an educational budget and time
to develop new skills.
- To be surrounded by an excellent, vibrant, smart team who have each other's
back and believe in a culture of openness, tolerance and respect.
- Equity and a competitive salary.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
We are a group of 85 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are
represented in our team. We work remotely from nine different countries and we
are looking for candidates that are also living and working in one of these
countries: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia,
Portugal, France, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Canada. We meet up once a
year in-person for our unforgettable team gathering event. We also offer the
option to occasionally meet up for in-person collaboration.
DIVERSITY & INCLUSION
We place enormous value on diversity and inclusion and strive to continually
bring in people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities and
backgrounds. We believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different
perspectives and approaches work together on a problem.
We’re always looking to diversify our team further, but we’re proud of the fact
that four out of the nine people on our leadership team are female, 46% of the
overall team are female and 20% of the team are people of color. Our team speaks
fifteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese,
Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish and
Korean.
OUR VALUES
TACKLING THE CLIMATE CRISIS IS OUR GREATEST MISSION.
We act with urgency.
OUR CURIOSITY FUELS OUR GROWTH.
We recognize that change is constant, and we find joy and power in exploration.
WE’RE ROOTED IN DIVERSITY.
Just as ecosystems need biodiversity to thrive, our resiliency comes from our
differences.
WE CARE FOR EACH OTHER.
We love the power of machines but we nurture each other as humans.
TRUST IS FUNDAMENTAL.
We assume the best in everyone, and we share ideas openly so that we have a
positive impact.
