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title: 'Strategic Projects Senior Associate at Earth Force'
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# Strategic Projects Senior Associate at Earth Force

- **Company:** Earth Force
- **Location:** US West Coast
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-17
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/earthforce/5af92d38-9a48-433a-b3d2-7926975ee581

## Job description

Wildfires are a $20 trillion crisis. Earth Force is building the technology that dramatically increases the pace and scale of fuels reduction and forest thinning—creating resilient forests and protecting people and communities from the devastating effects of wildfire. We develop integrated computer vision systems—hardware through UI—deployed on forestry machines operating in remote forest environments. Our platform measures trees in real time, automates production reporting, and enables precision silviculture at a scale the industry has never seen. We work primarily with the U.S. Forest Service and their implementation partners under multi-year program agreements. We’re commercially deployed and approaching scale. Our next season of growth will deliver on the capabilities our tech has developed, broadening the trust we've built with our partners to serve those working to protect land from catastrophic wildfire.

## About the Role

Earth Force exists to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires through technology, data, and operational excellence. As we continue to grow and scale our impact, we are seeking a Strategic Projects Senior Associate to help tackle some of the company’s highest-priority and most complex business challenges. This role will partner closely with executive leadership and teams across Finance, Operations, Product, and Engineering to drive strategic initiatives from analysis through execution. You’ll work on a wide range of projects—from business performance and strategic planning to new initiatives, investor and board materials, and operational improvements. The ideal candidate has a strong foundation in investment banking, private equity, or management consulting and is excited to apply that toolkit in a hands-on operating environment.

## Qualifications

- 3–6 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, management consulting, or a similarly rigorous analytical environment.
- Exceptional analytical and quantitative skills, with experience building financial models, business analyses, and data-driven recommendations.
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to structure and solve ambiguous, complex business problems.
- Ability to synthesize complex operational, financial, and strategic information into clear recommendations and executive-level communications.
- Experience creating high-quality presentations and materials for senior executives, boards, investors, or clients.
- Strong project management skills and demonstrated ability to drive cross-functional initiatives from problem definition through execution.
- Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint or Google Slides and Excel or Google Sheets.

## Preferred

- Experience working at or closely with a high-growth, investor-backed company.
- Experience supporting strategic planning, fundraising, M&A, board reporting, or other high-priority corporate initiatives.
- Experience working directly with executive leadership, private equity, venture capital, or institutional investors.
- Exposure to climate, forestry, infrastructure, energy, construction, industrial services, or other asset-intensive industries.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, moving between strategy and execution, and working directly with senior leaders on the projects that matter most to the business.

## About Earth Force

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Earth Force provides precision fuel treatments at landscape scale using real-time sensors, software, and autonomous machinery to reduce wildfire risk and promote forest health.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Seed stage)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Justin Dawe (CEO) and Dan Schreter (Co-founder)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Environmental Services / Climate Technology (wildfire mitigation and forest management)
- **Target customers**: Government agencies, land managers, forestry contractors, and conservation organizations (B2B / B2G)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “People and Nature, healing each other.”

## Products & Services
- **[Guide]**: An in-cabin tablet and precision sensor system that provides operators with real-time maps, alerts, and tree-level insights to ensure prescriptions are met and boundaries observed during fuel treatment operations.
- **[Portal]**: A web-based administration platform that automates reporting from the field, allowing project administrators to oversee exponentially more acres and stay close to ground-truth data remotely.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding of $8.6M (Seed round, closed November 2022)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Alley Robotics Ventures (lead investor), plus 5 other institutional investors; partners include The Nature Conservancy and The Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce
- **Growth Signals**: 16 employees as of mid-2026; website traffic growth of +40% month-over-month and +46% year-over-year; actively hiring (Backend Engineer in Tel Aviv, Israel); presented at Forest Innovation Summit and Society of American Foresters National Convention; CEO participated in SF Climate Week panel

## Competitive Advantages
- **Precision at scale**: Real-time tree-level data and alerts enable field operators to execute treatments with high accuracy, reducing costly rework and boundary violations.
- **Teleoperation & automation**: Teleoperated machinery allows operators to work from safe, remote workstations, while automated reporting frees administrators to oversee many more acres.
- **Integrated hardware+software**: Proprietary sensors, in-cabin tablets, and cloud platform create a closed-loop system that others in the forestry/fire prevention space lack.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling landscape restoration**: Earth Force aims to expand the adoption of precision fuel treatments to confront the growing wildfire crisis, which causes $394–$893 billion in annual economic costs in the U.S. alone.
- **Expanding partnerships**: Collaborating with innovative land managers and presenting at industry conferences to build credibility and pilot new programs.
- **Product development**: Continuing to enhance Guide and Portal with autonomous machine capabilities and deeper data analytics.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission-driven culture**: Employees directly contribute to reducing catastrophic wildfires and restoring forest health—a tangible environmental impact.
- **Collaborative and lean team**: Small, tight-knit team (~16 people) with a flat structure; heavy emphasis on learning and doing things that have never been done before.
- **Remote/hybrid flexibility**: Offices in San Francisco (HQ), Tel Aviv, and Canada; team is distributed across the U.S., Israel, and Canada.
- **Notable tech stack**: Kubernetes, microservices, Docker, Flutter, Couchbase, Mapbox, GPS, Python, Terraform, GitHub Actions—strong engineering environment with real-world sensor and robotics integration.
- **Culture of transparency**: Leadership communicates openly about the wildfire crisis and the company’s role; CEO posts candid updates on LinkedIn.

## Sources
1. [earthforce.io](https://www.earthforce.io/)
2. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/earth-force-technologies)
3. [tracxn.com](https://tracxn.com/d/companies/earthforce/__5_TSrax7BTZoclO7v9Nrio1SpXEkzs29iD9OvU5OMRo)
4. [overture.vc](https://www.overture.vc/overture-portfolio/earth-force)
5. [climatetechlist.com](https://www.climatetechlist.com/company/earth-force-technologies)

## Other roles at Earth Force

- [Senior Field Technician](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-field-technician-earth-force-reno-07z5amdsf2h1) — Reno, NV
- [Director, Corporate Development & Strategic Finance](https://feeny.ai/job/director-corporate-development-strategic-finance-earth-force-us-west-coast-ky144f4a64ya) — US West Coast