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Working to solve our climate crisis is the most important mission of our time, and the most exciting problem to be working on. Overstory’s mission is to help solve our climate crisis by providing real-time intelligence about the planet’s vegetation. In our first step toward this mission, we are applying machine learning to satellite imagery to track forests and vegetation. Today, we proudly partner with 40+ leading utilities worldwide, including 4 of the top 10 US utilities, to help reduce wildfire risk and increase grid reliability to prevent power outages.

We have already proven our business model and we’re all united behind our ambitious vision to scale up this model to help humanity and the planet. We closed a $14 million Series A, led by B Capital and welcoming The Nature Conservancy to our collective of climate-minded investors. This milestone includes additional investment and continued support from Convective Capital, Semapa Next, Bentley iTwin Ventures, Pale blue dot, CapitalT, Moxxie Ventures, and Overwater Ventures

If you want to have a real impact and solve some of the world's most complex challenges with advanced technology, come work with our talented and passionate team. Overstory is a remote-first company, with people living all over the U.S. and Europe.

The role

As a GIS QA contractor at Overstory, you will be conducting GIS analysis, primarily reviewing geospatial data for accuracy and quality issues, supporting QA and finalization of customer product data, feeding back on Geospatial related bugs and customer issues and collaborating with the engineering team on GIS features and implementation.

In detail

You’ll spend most of your time working in QGIS, PostgreSQL database, and our own product to conduct QA on the various different layers of data which make up our deliveries. You will work on multiple datasets in parallel, switching between them as you get blocked and ensuring the relevant stakeholders are kept updated. You’ll be working as part of the Manual Test Delivery Team, and will attend regular standup meetings.

Skills

You are comfortable working with PostgreSQL/SQL.
You are familiar with GitHub, and tools such as Slack, Notion, Google Suite.
Your written and verbal English communications skills are excellent, and you have empathy and understanding of different roles in the company.
You manage your own time effectively, across multiple projects and occasionally under pressure, able to prioritize short and long term activities with a strategic approach.
You are creative and curious and have strong attention to detail. You are well-organized, keeping many files in the right places and clear documentation up-to-date.
You can talk to software engineers and data engineers. Teamwork is at your core.
You have an eye for quality, your work is thorough, and you pay attention to both the small details and the larger picture.
You are flexible and ready and able to learn new things, and able to quickly adapt to new working practices and technologies.

Nice to have

Experience working with GIS data in public or private utility.
Experience with Geospatial software such as QGIS.
QA experience
Knowledge about electric utilities
Experience in a remote team

About you

You are fluent in English.
You have at least 2 years of relevant experience
Teamwork is at your core, and you like to help others grow and succeed
Ideally, you’re in a time zone +/- 1 hour from CET

Contract

40 hours per week - full time
For a period of 12 weeks to start with

About our team

We are a group of 62 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: the Netherlands, United Kingdom, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, France, and Sweden.

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, Indonesian, Cantonese, Estonian and Korean.