Overstory
Arborist FTE
Job Summary
The role involves working as a mid-career arborist to support Overstory's forestry operations, focusing on analyzing satellite images for tree health and species identification. Key responsibilities include quality control, training new team members, conducting field visits, and coordinating projects with external partners. Candidates should have experience with GIS tools, satellite imagery interpretation, and strong communication skills. The position is remote within specified countries and emphasizes teamwork, attention to detail, and adaptability in a fast-paced environment.
Required Skills
Job Description
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.
We’re looking for a USA based mid-career arborist to work closely with our Lead Arborist expanding our Forestry team's operational capacity to deliver high-quality geospatial analysis to clients.
What you’ll do
- Identify declining trees on satellite images
- Identify tree species on satellite images
- Quality control the work of our team (ex. correct tree species, hazard trees, tree height, vegetation encroachment, and overhang, etc.)
- Onboard and train new arborists
- Conduct field visits to support customer deliveries, analysis validation, and client operationalization
- Coordinate projects ensuring timely and accurate delivery
- Coordinate partnerships with external organizations to expand our operational capacity
Your experience
- Experience as a forester or arborist, ideally ISA Certified Arborist.
- You’re well versed with GIS tools like QGIS and ArcGIS.
- Experience interpreting tree characteristics from satellite images.
- You have a strong attention to detail.
- Exceptional verbal, written and visual communication skills in a fast-paced environment.
- You’re a team player that seeks out feedback.
- You take initiative.
- Comfortable translating complex analysis in an understandable manner to customers.
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment with the ability to adapt to changing priorities.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
Contract
- 40 hours per week
About our team
We are a group of 72 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 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.
Overstory
We help electric utilities optimize resources, mitigate vegetation risk, and future-proof their operations and maintenance programs for the growing climate and market challenges of our time. This intelligence helps ops teams direct pruning efforts to minimize the risk of wildfires and power outages across their network.
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