Overstory
People Business Partner - Europe
Job Summary
The role involves managing all aspects of people operations for Overstory's European team, including onboarding, offboarding, performance management, and benefits administration. The candidate will support talent development, coordinate recruitment, and ensure compliance with local labor laws across various European countries. They will work closely with the Head of People to improve HR practices and foster a human-centric, fast-paced, startup environment. The position emphasizes cultural inclusion, employee well-being, and supporting Overstory's climate mission.
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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.
The role
As a People Business Partner, you’ll ensure that all people operations for our European team run smoothly - from onboarding to offboarding and everything in between. You’re the beating heart of the People team, approachable and responsive to any questions from our Overstory team. With our global team working remotely from 15 different countries, you’re able to smoothly navigate local complexities while making the overall experience feel like Overstory. You’ll work hands-on delivering excellent day-to-day operations, guide managers with people-related questions and drive improvements to make us ready to scale as we enter a new phase of growth.
You’ll be part of a small but mighty People team, working closely with the Head of People. Together, we nurture a culture where everyone can be their best selves. We like thinking out-of-the-box, keeping our way of working simple and effective and most importantly: human-centric.
If you love fast-paced environments, like to make things happen and want to set the standard for what great people operations looks like - this role might be just what you’re looking for.
What you’ll do
You’ll own and run people operations for our team in Europe, and work with the Head of People to improve our practices globally:
- Guide managers on talent development and performance management, enabling their teams to thrive
- Support the wider Overstory team with questions on people policies or processes, making them feel well cared for
- Run our annual performance and compensation review cycles
- Run projects to implement top-notch people practices in performance management, talent development and rewards, in collaboration with the Head of People
- Run onboarding for new team members from start to finish. You’ll make them feel at home from the minute they join
- Draft employment contracts and renewals, ensuring compliance with local labor laws
- Coordinate recruitment for hiring managers, from posting the job, to keeping the candidate pipeline neat and tidy, to scheduling team interviews. You’ll work closely with our technical recruiter to maximise alignment with our recruitment strategy and approach.
- Ensure a smooth offboarding for team members that are moving on
- Handle benefits and leave administration
About you
- You have 7+ years of experience as a hands-on HR Manager, HR Business Partner or similar role, owning all aspects of HR
- You’ve worked in early-stage start-ups and love that fast-paced environment. You’re comfortable with the ambiguity that comes with working at a startup and you don’t need to have everything well defined before you act
- You have designed innovative HR processes and practices and know how to implement this effectively, bringing all stakeholders along
- You’ve worked in an international context and are familiar with local labor laws and benefits in various European countries
- You have great judgement, you know how to balance quality and speed, and combine a business mindset with human touch
- You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English
- You’re passionate about our climate mission
- You’re based in a GMT/ CET time zone
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.
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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