Engineering Manager (Data & Machine Learning)

Powerhouse; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company focused on climate action seeks an Engineering Manager to lead product teams in vegetation modeling and data ingestion. This remote-first role requires strong leadership, technical expertise, and a passion for climate solutions. Join a diverse team dedicated to making a real impact.

Benefits

Flexible remote work environment

Remote working budget

Educational budget

Skill development time

Equity and competitive salary

Qualifications

• At least 2 years leading and managing engineers across multiple teams.
• Experience in high-growth scale-up environments.
• Product-minded with a proven impact through technology.

Responsibilities

• Lead product teams managing up to ~10 engineers.
• Ensure high performance and delivery outcomes.
• Foster an inclusive and supportive culture.

Skills

Leadership

Technical Decision Making

Collaboration

Communication

Mentoring

Tools

React

Typescript

Python

Postgres

Data Pipelines

GCP

Cloud Run

Kubernetes

Job description

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 an Engineering Manager, you will lead several product teams managing up to ~10 engineers (including Tech Leads). This role will support our vegetation modelling and data ingestion domains as we seek to improve our underlying models and expand the number of data sources we can reliably turn into vegetation intelligence.

Our product teams are cross functional and typically include: product managers, designers, engineers, data scientists, and subject matter experts related to the team's domain.

You will be accountable for the technical and delivery outcomes of your area. You will challenge your teams to achieve ambitious goals whilst providing support through growing engineering talent and fostering a highly collaborative environment where people can excel.

Your primary focus will be on creating high performing teams and driving results through others. While not expected to spend significant time coding, you should be able to dive deep technically when required and leverage your extensive engineering experience to guide technical decisions and solutions.

What you will do

• Enable our Vegetation Modelling and Data Ingestion teams to become highly productive cross-functional teams that ship high-quality products daily.
• Attract great talent from your network to grow the teams.
• Foster an inclusive and supportive culture where everyone can perform at their best.
• Provide regular coaching and feedback to help team members thrive and reach their potential.
• Partner strategically with product managers to ensure sound technical decisions that balance short-term and long-term goals.
• Ensure the architecture within your domains supports long-term product objectives.
• Collaborate with other Product & Engineering leaders on strategy, technology, and people initiatives, including improving engineering practices and unlocking new opportunities.

About You

• Passionate about climate action.
• Experience in high-growth scale-up environments.
• Product-minded with a proven impact through technology.
• At least 2 years leading and managing engineers across multiple teams.
• Experience with technologies like React/Typescript, Python/fastAPI, Postgres, Data pipelines.
• Comfortable working in cloud environments such as GCP, Cloud Run, K8s, or similar.
• Strong leadership and mentoring skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
• Passionate about learning and industry trends.
• Based in GMT/CET time zone.

Nice to haves

• Experience with maps, imagery, or geospatial domains is beneficial but not essential.

If you don’t meet all the above but believe you have much to offer, please apply.

What you get

• Contribute to efforts that reduce wildfires, protect natural resources, and combat climate change.
• Flexible, autonomous remote work environment.
• Benefits like a remote working budget, educational budget, and skill development time.
• Work with a vibrant, smart team committed to openness, tolerance, and respect.
• Equity and competitive salary.

About our team

Our diverse team of 62 spans 15 nationalities, working remotely across nine countries including the US, Netherlands, UK, Ireland, Estonia, Portugal, Spain, France, Sweden, and Canada. We meet once a year in person and occasionally for collaboration.

Location: Europe/UK.

Diversity & Inclusion

We value diversity and strive to include people of all genders, races, creeds, ethnicities, abilities, and backgrounds. Our team speaks fifteen languages and includes a significant proportion of women and people of color.

Our values

• Tackling the climate crisis is our greatest mission. We act with urgency.
• Our curiosity fuels our growth. We embrace change and exploration.
• We’re rooted in diversity. Our resilience comes from our differences.
• We care for each other. We nurture humans alongside machines.
• Trust is fundamental. We share ideas openly and assume the best in everyone.