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FieldKit is Open Environmental Sensing for Everyone
The Role
Leads hardware and software product development alongside partner projects for environmental conservation technology. Responsibilities include product roadmaps, feature prioritization, project scoping, scheduling, budgeting, risk management, stakeholder coordination, production logistics, partner relationships, field deployments, and team leadership. The role also supports grant reporting, manufacturing coordination, internal processes, and cross-functional organizational planning.
Summary Generated by Built In
As FieldKit has deployed more accessible environmental sensing technology out into the world, our product and project needs have grown in parallel. We are looking for a highly organized versatile leader who can drive forward FieldKit’s hardware and software product development alongside our in-field partner projects.
This role encompasses both product and project management; leading a small experienced team advancing conservation technology while supporting successful community-based partner projects worldwide. We’re seeking a strong communicator, collaborative problem-solver, and proactive leader fluent in agile and waterfall methodologies. You’ll balance strategy, project details, and team capacity while managing production logistics, deadlines, and priorities. If you’re a compassionate, adaptable guide, who loves nothing more than building strong relationships, knowing when to pivot, setting teams up for success, and empowering them to excel, we’d love to hear from you.
This job offers the opportunity to see your work impact positively on the environment and our planet’s natural treasures, while acting as an invaluable member of our small, fun team as FieldKit expands.
Key Responsibilities
Here are some of the core responsibilities for the job – these are what you would spend most of your time doing:
- Multi-platform product management
- Feature prioritization, product roadmap, and kanban board management across electrical and mechanical hardware, firmware, software (mobile app, online data portal, FieldKit.org), and printed collateral
- Strategic management through design, prototyping, development and release phases
- Stakeholder management and meeting stewardship, facilitating input on feature prioritization from executive leadership and the customer support team
- Partner project management
- Creating scopes of work, schedules, estimates, project tasks, deliverables, assumptions and dependencies
- Developing strategic project plans, identifying resource requirements, managing risk, tracking progress, and course-correcting
- Synthesizing the project brief, including goals, success metrics and mandatories
- Leading the project team, facilitating smooth processes, and outlining internal project roles and responsibilities, workflow, and approval process
- Building strong relationships with partners, outlining roles and responsibilities, workflow, and approval process, managing expectations, and flagging issues
- Ensuring that projects are delivered on time, budget, and to agreed quality
- Support grant reporting and documentation for the project
Sometimes you might also:
- Manage the production of FieldKit’s hardware products to meet order demand, interfacing with third party manufacturing houses, the engineering team, and the fulfillment team to ensure FieldKit’s customers and partner projects are well supported
- Manage internal projects (like competitor testing co-deployments, product photoshoots, internal wiki), contractors, and consultants
- Manage onsite installations and visit deployments in the field
- Document and develop internal protocols and processes
- Train and oversee additional project support, as needed
- Guide Exec team resourcing strategy discussions, liaise with the contracts team to execute contracts, and support other functions including grant fundraising, communications, sales, and operations
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
If you’re a dependable strategic thinker who can also roll up your sleeves and jump in, we want to speak with you. We value a diversity of backgrounds and expertise so if you’re confident in your ability to do the job, then we encourage you to apply. We will be looking for candidates who possess many, but not necessarily all, of the following qualifications and experience:
Priority Qualifications:
Priority Qualifications:
- 4+ years proven experience managing software product development
- 4+ years proven experience managing projects
- Excellent time management and prioritization (“big picture”) skills with an eye for detail
- Excellent communication skills, both direct and empathetic
- Comfortable with working alongside a remote team across multiple time zones
- Happy to hit the ground running on a product or project with many moving pieces
- Skilled at listening, and quickly synthesizing information into key requirements and actions
- Knows when to ask pertinent subject matter related or technical questions in order to understand and identify the scope/schedule/budget implications
- Digitally savvy and proficient in Google suite, Monday.com, GitLab, Jira, Trello, Smartsheet
- Familiarity with design software e.g. Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite
- Passionate about environmental conservation, open technology, or community empowerment
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience managing (electrical and mechanical) hardware design, development and production
- Experience working on multi-platform products and projects
- Experience working on grant-funded projects
- Experience working with the unpredictabilities of in-field or onsite installation (in the US and abroad)
- Ability to work from the FieldKit lab in Downtown Los Angeles on occasion
Workplace, Compensation & Application
Workplace & Travel: This a remote position. The ability to work from the FieldKit lab in Downtown Los Angeles on occasion is preferred, but not required.
Time & Compensation: This is a W2 employee role with an estimated work commitment of 30 hours per week (75% full-time equivalent). Multiplier and FieldKit provide a comprehensive compensation package, including competitive salary ($74,880/annually), health, vision and dental benefits, retirement savings, and generous vacation and sick leave policy.
How to Apply: To apply, please visit our Applicant Portal. Applications will be accepted until position is filled. Priority will be given to applications received on or before Sunday, September 13. Please include a cover letter in your application materials describing your relevant experience and qualifications. We respectfully request no follow-up calls or emails.
About
Multiplier accelerates impact for innovative projects focused on protecting and fostering a healthy, sustainable, resilient and equitable world. At Multiplier, program teams can turn game-changing ideas into planet-saving impact, and they can do it faster and better than they otherwise could.Multiplier celebrates diversity and is committed to building teams and partnerships that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Multiplier is also committed to providing an environment of mutual respect that is free from discrimination and harassment. Multiplier prohibits discrimination in its governance, programs, and activities on the basis of race, color, national origin, age, disability, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, political beliefs, reprisal, marital status, amnesty, status as a covered veteran, because all or part of an individual’s income is derived from public assistance, or for any other factor that is not based on merit.
Skills Required
- 4+ years of experience managing software product development
- 4+ years of experience managing projects
- Strong time management and prioritization skills with attention to detail
- Excellent direct and empathetic communication skills
- Ability to work with remote teams across multiple time zones
- Ability to manage products or projects with many moving pieces
- Ability to synthesize information into requirements and actions
- Ability to assess scope, schedule, and budget implications by asking technical and subject-matter questions
- Proficiency with Google Workspace, Monday.com, GitLab, Jira, Trello, and Smartsheet
- Familiarity with design software such as Sketch or Adobe Creative Suite
- Passion for environmental conservation, open technology, or community empowerment
- Experience managing electrical and mechanical hardware design, development, and production
- Experience working on multi-platform products and projects
- Experience working on grant-funded projects
- Experience with in-field or onsite installations in the United States and abroad
- Ability to work from the FieldKit lab in Downtown Los Angeles occasionally
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The Company
What We Do
FieldKit is an open-source software and hardware platform (environmental sensors, app, and FieldKit.org website) that allows individuals and organizations to collect and share field-based research data and tell stories through interactive visualizations. Designed to be easy to deploy customizable, FieldKit can be adapted to meet the needs of diverse research teams, from biology and ecology to marine and environmental sciences, from post-doc researchers to elementary school students. FieldKit offers a simple platform for enabling live data expeditions, and for the creation and deployment of environmental sensor networks or in situ monitoring. The aim is to bring open source scientific monitoring capabilities to anyone who wants it. FieldKit has been funded by the National Geographic Society and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. It is currently being deployed with UCLA in the Congo Basin, the Wildlife Conservation Society and Florida International University in the Amazon rainforest, throughout the American Prairie Reserve in Montana, and a number of other locations.
