Working to solve our climate crisis is the most important mission of our time, and the most exciting problem to be working on. Overstory’s mission is to help solve our climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet’s vegetation. In our first step toward this mission, we are applying machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation. Today, we proudly partner with 40+ leading utilities worldwide, including 4 of the top 10 US utilities, to help reduce wildfire risk and increase grid reliability to prevent power outages.
We have already proven our business model and we’re all united behind our ambitious vision to scale up this model to help humanity and the planet. We closed a $14 million Series A, led by B Capital and welcoming The Nature Conservancy to our collective of climate-minded investors. This milestone includes additional investment and continued support from Convective Capital, Semapa Next, Bentley iTwin Ventures, Pale blue dot, CapitalT, Moxxie Ventures, and Overwater Ventures
If you want to have a real impact and solve some of the world's most complex challenges with advanced technology, come work with our talented and passionate team. Overstory is a remote-first company, with people living all over the U.S. and Europe.
About the role
As a Product Manager at Overstory you will be part of an exciting team, working closely with a designer and engineers to build the Overstory product.
Overstory product was launched three years ago and we are now at a stage of tremendous growth. The product needs to evolve to serve more customers use cases and to tackle more aspects of the climate resilience space.
Your job will be to lead the product development process, defining customer problems to be solved, building consensus around the best way to solve them and meet our business objectives. You’ll work in an agile manner, learning from our customers, iterating quickly, and deciding when to build for a scalable future and when to hack it together. The role will encompass all hands-on PM work such as writing problem statements, balancing product discovery with shipping fast and deciding on success metrics. It will also include defining team roadmaps, contributing to product strategy and supporting internal teams during the delivery process.
The exact parts of the product you’ll be working on will depend on the needs of the moment.
About you / What a successful candidate looks like
You’re comfortable with the ambiguity that comes with working at an early-stage startup and you don’t need to have everything well defined before you act. You can think both short- and long-term so that you can meet near-term deadlines while iterating toward a future vision. You’re able to zoom out and think strategically, while also being extremely detail-oriented in the hands-on work of building a product. You understand that effective communication is an important part of strong product management, so you present your work clearly and frequently to teammates and customers. You have a passion for the urgency of solving our climate crisis.
Requirements
- You have 5+ years of product management experience-
- You have experience working at a fast-paced start-up environment.
- You have experience working on a B2B product.
- You have a strong passion for understanding customer problems and experience leading discovery directly with customers.
- You are obsessed with shipping fast to learn even faster.
- You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills in a fast-paced environment.
- You have experience leading product strategy and roadmapping sessions, and building consensus around the best ideas.
- You love working within a team, with proven ability to juggle (and articulate) customer needs with engineering and business constraints to create shippable solutions that address real customer problems.
- You are based in Europe or US (ideally ET but open to other areas of US if the candidate is a great fit).
Nice-to-haves
- You have experience building products for enterprise customers.
- You have experience working with Utilities.
- You’ve worked on a product that is machine learning-based or very data heavy so you’ve worked closely with data scientists.
- Knowledge of GIS technologies.
- Experience working on a web product that is primarily used on phones or tablets so you naturally don’t think of mobile as an afterthought.
- Experience localizing products for worldwide audiences.
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 62 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 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.
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, Indonesian, Cantonese, Estonian and Korean.
Our valuesTackling 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.
What We Do
Overstory is on a mission to become the standard in predictive planet intelligence. Understanding every m² on Earth.
The planet is under pressure. Data-driven information is needed to improve decision making about our natural resources. By applying machine learning to satellite imagery Overstory creates insights about the quantity and quality of forests and other natural resources
