Overstory
Product Manager, Data Foundations
Job Summary
The role involves leading the transformation of core data processing workflows, working closely with engineers and ML specialists to improve data pipelines and system reliability. The candidate will manage the roadmap, align teams, and make practical decisions to build scalable, efficient systems that deliver timely insights to utility partners. Requirements include extensive product management experience, familiarity with data infrastructure and ML concepts, and strong communication skills. The position allows for remote work, offers benefits like an educational budget and flexible schedule, and focuses on climate impact and innovative problem-solving.
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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.
About the role
As a Product Manager on our Data Foundation team at Overstory, you will lead the transformation of our core data processing workflows—from the moment we acquire new imagery to when insights are surfaced in the product. You’ll work with engineers and ML specialists to streamline how data flows through our platform, improve the reliability and speed of our processing pipelines, and reduce manual effort along the way.
This is a highly cross-functional role that sits at the heart of Overstory’s product and operations. You’ll ensure imagery is processed accurately and efficiently, models run as expected, QA steps are robust, and results are delivered to customers on time. It’s a mix of system thinking, technical coordination, and product execution. The goal is to build scalable systems that improve speed and reliability without compromising quality.
You’ll define the roadmap, align teams, and prioritize trade-offs, deciding when to invest in durable systems and when to move quickly. This role requires hands-on product work, including writing clear problem statements, balancing discovery with delivery, and making practical decisions in an evolving technical landscape.
About you / What a successful candidate looks like
You enjoy making sense of complex systems and helping teams operate more effectively. You can zoom in to spot inefficiencies in a pipeline, and zoom out to guide long-term technical and product decisions. You’re energized by working with engineers and operations teams to solve real-world problems, and comfortable translating messy internal constraints into clean external outcomes.
You’re pragmatic and decisive, comfortable in ambiguous environments, and motivated by the chance to improve infrastructure that powers critical climate solutions. You know how to build trust across functions, communicate clearly, and bring people along as things change.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience
- Experience working on backend systems, data infrastructure, or internal tools
- Strong track record of aligning technical and operational teams toward shared goals
- Familiarity with concepts like data pipelines, data quality, and ML model inference and integration
- Excellent communication skills, especially with engineering and operations stakeholders
- Passion for climate impact and mission-driven work
- You are based in Europe (see countries we hire from) or on the East Coast of the US.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience working with imagery, geospatial data, or ML ops
- Background in technical product roles involving automation or orchestration
- Understanding of how to balance data quality, speed, and scalability
- Experience with and prior success working with both platform teams and customer-facing teams
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.
- A 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 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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