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
We’re looking for an Executive Assistant to join our People team. In this dynamic role you’ll combine high-level executive support for our CEO, Fiona, with office operations and recruitment coordination. In short - you keep our operations running smoothly. With your wide range of responsibilities, you’re able to make a big impact.
The role will evolve as our team’s needs evolve and it will undoubtedly be a grab bag of different things. You will need to be able to jump around from task to task, depending on where you are needed most.
You will be part of a diverse, fast-growing and remote-first team that is building the Overstory business so that it has a giant impact on the world. Join us in our mission to solve the climate crisis.
What you’ll do
As an Executive Assistant, you’ll help our CEO stay on top of her priorities and be fully prepared for meetings and business trips. You will manage her calendar, including scheduling meetings and preparing meeting materials. You manage incoming external communication and organize her business trips, including advising on which events to attend.
As we are a remote-first team, your office operations work will be less about managing the physical office and more about running our remote office operations. That includes coordinating company and leadership meetings, managing vendor subscriptions and equipment (mostly laptops), and taking care of the incoming mail in the Amsterdam office.
For recruitment, you’ll help our hiring managers provide a great candidate experience by coordinating the recruitment process. That includes keeping track of candidate progress and timelines, and scheduling interviews.
About you
- You have 5+ years of experience as an executive assistant, ideally to a CEO
- You’ve worked in early-stage start-ups and love that fast-paced environment
- You’re a self-starter who will make things happen, from identifying a challenge to implementing a solution
- You have exceptional verbal and written communication skills in English
- You know how to leverage AI to make everyone around you more efficient
- You have great organizational skills, and can quickly zoom in-and-out to reach the best result
- You have strong interpersonal skills and can handle confidential or sensitive information with care
- You’re based in a GMT/ CET time zone
Nice-to-haves
- You’re based near our Amsterdam office in the Netherlands
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 64 people from all over the world. We work remotely from nine different countries and we are looking for people 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, Cantonese, Estonian, Danish 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
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