--- title: 'Staff Technical Recruiter at Overstory' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/staff-technical-recruiter-overstory-united-states-canada-east-coast-europe-1968htmz37hs' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-13' --- # Staff Technical Recruiter at Overstory - **Company:** Overstory - **Location:** United States / Canada East Coast / Europe - **Posted:** 2026-07-29 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-13 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/overstory/jobs/4940891101 ## 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. 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 Staff Technical Recruiter at Overstory, you'll build the team that brings our mission to life. Every hire you make directly shapes the ability to execute on our goals in our growing and scaling company. This is a hands-on role with great strategic impact. You'll balance delivering excellent day-to-day recruiting operations with shipping new features that make us ready to scale. You’ll own full-cycle recruiting for technical roles, partnering closely with hiring managers and leadership from the earliest stages of role definition through sourcing, interviewing, and closing offers. Sometimes you’ll own other roles, e.g. product or go-to-market, depending on business needs. With every role you hire for, you champion our values and attract mission-driven builders who are energized by hard problems and meaningful impact. You'll join a People team of five, where everyone is senior, trusted, and empowered to drive decisions. Together with our other Technical Recruiter, you’ll build and refine the recruiting motion that helps us scale: from systems and data to brand and community. With a global team spread across 11 countries working remotely, you'll navigate local complexities with ease while keeping the overall candidate experience feeling unmistakably like Overstory. Together, we nurture a culture where everyone can be their best selves — building a workplace people love, and keeping the way we work simple, effective, and above all: human-centric. ## What you’ll do - Own full-cycle recruiting with a focus on technical roles, from role definition and sourcing through interviewing, coordinating and offer negotiation - Partner closely with hiring managers and leadership to understand team needs, shape role requirements, and design effective hiring strategies - Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines through creative sourcing, networking, and application review - Guide candidates through a thoughtful interview process, coordinating seamlessly across teams and timezones to ensure a positive experience - Build and refine the systems, processes, brand and network that make recruiting incrementally easier as we scale. - Use data and feedback to continuously optimize hiring practices and improve outcomes - Act as a culture ambassador and trusted partner, bringing in mission-driven builders who reflect Overstory's values - Stay flexible and pitch in across the people team as needed in our lean, fast-paced environment ## About you - 8+ years of technical recruiting experience in high-growth tech startups - Proven track record closing hard-to-find technical talent, including roles like machine learning engineers or other specialized positions - You thrive in a fast-moving, wear-multiple-hats startup culture. You experiment, iterate, and take initiative to solve problems. - You’re a trusted hiring partner that influences hiring decisions effectively - You’re tech savvy and know how to apply AI to make recruiting more effective - You have experience building the systems and tooling to scale recruiting - You have worked in international, remote-first environments and have experience hiring in multiple geographies - You’re passionate about our climate mission - You’re based in the UK, Europe or the East Coast of North America If you don’t meet all of the above yet feel you have lots to offer, please apply anyway. We're open to hiring less experienced candidates at a Senior Technical Recruiter level. ## 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 fast-growing team of about 100 people from all over the world. Fifteen nationalities are represented and at last count we speak fourteen languages: English, Dutch, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, Luxembourgish, Lithuanian, Bulgarian, Finnish, Estonian, and Afrikaans. We work remotely from eleven countries and are looking for candidates that are living and working in one of them: United States, the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and Canada. We gather 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 The climate crisis is a human crisis that requires diverse perspectives to solve. We place enormous value on diversity and believe that the best ideas emerge when people with different backgrounds and experience work together. We remain committed to scaling a team that reflects the communities we serve, and strive to uphold equitable and inclusive practices across every aspect of our business. We are responsible for creating and maintaining a culture where everyone - regardless of background - has a voice in building a sustainable future. ## 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. _________________________________ Use of AI in Our Hiring Process We sometimes use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as helping us manage applications more efficiently or ensuring job descriptions are clear and inclusive. All hiring decisions are always made by people, not machines. Any data processed by AI is handled securely in line with GDPR and our [Privacy Notice](https://www.overstory.com/privacy-policy). ## About Overstory ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Overstory provides AI-powered vegetation intelligence software to help electric utilities reduce wildfire risk, prevent power outages, and build a more resilient grid. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series B) - **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands (with offices in Somerville, Massachusetts, USA) - **Founded**: 2018 - **Founders**: Indra den Bakker and Anniek Schouten ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Climate Tech, Utility Software, AI & Remote Sensing - **Target customers**: Investor-owned utilities, electric cooperatives, and grid operators (B2B, Enterprise) - **Mission or purpose statement**: To harness cutting-edge technology to enable a resilient electrical grid that keeps communities thriving as our world changes. ## Products & Services - **Vegetation Intelligence Platform (SaaS)**: An AI-driven platform that combines satellite and aerial imagery with local data (asset location, wildfire maps, terrain) to provide utilities with actionable insights for data-driven vegetation management programs. It helps prioritize risk, optimize trimming budgets, and shift from reactive to proactive maintenance. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly disclosed - **Key Metric**: Total Funding of $52 million (as of Series B in 2023) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: B Capital, Ecosystem Integrity Fund (EIF), Pale Blue Dot, CapitalT, and Moxxie Ventures. - **Growth Signals**: - Trusted by 6 of the 10 largest utilities in North America and over 50 investor-owned utilities and cooperatives across The Americas and Europe. - Headcount has grown to over 100 employees across Europe and North America. - Actively hiring for new senior roles including a CTO, Directors of Engineering, and Staff-level ML engineers, indicating a scaling phase. ## Competitive Advantages - **Proprietary AI & Remote Sensing**: Combines advanced computer vision with multiple remote sensing sources (satellite, aerial) to create a unique, real-time view of vegetation risk that manual inspections cannot match. - **Deep Industry Verticals**: Highly specialized for the utility sector, solving a specific, high-stakes problem (wildfire prevention, grid reliability) with significant regulatory and cost implications. - **Data Network Effects**: As more utilities use the platform, the dataset on vegetation growth and risk under various conditions improves, making the predictive models smarter and more accurate over time. ## Strategic Focus - **Geographic Expansion**: Building on its strong base in North America and Europe to onboard more utilities globally. - **Product Depth**: Currently hiring for a Staff Machine Learning Engineer focused on Wildfire, signaling a strategic push to deepen wildfire risk modeling capabilities. - **Customer Success**: The company is investing heavily in Enterprise Customer Success and Delivery Operations to support its large, complex utility clients and ensure high retention. ## Why Work Here - **Mission-Driven Impact**: Employees work directly on combating the climate crisis by making the electrical grid safer and more resilient against extreme weather and wildfire threats. - **Remote-First & Flexible**: The company is remote-first, with employees across the US, Canada, and Europe (UK, Netherlands, Portugal, etc.). They emphasize organizing work around life, not the other way around. - **Benefits & Culture**: Offers a competitive salary, equity, a remote working budget, an educational budget, and an annual company gathering. Culture values are rooted in diversity, curiosity, trust, and caring for each other. - **High Autonomy**: Described as having a culture of flexibility and a lot of autonomy, suitable for self-starters who want to own a piece of a critical climate problem. ## Sources 1. [overstory.com](https://www.overstory.com/) 2. [overstory.com/about-us](https://www.overstory.com/about-us) 3. [overstory.com/careers](https://www.overstory.com/careers) 4. [job-boards.greenhouse.io/overstory](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/overstory) 5. 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