About Vibrant Planet

We are a team of leaders in science, forestry, policy, and tech, building a cloud-based, data-driven platform to increase the pace and scale of forest restoration and reduce catastrophic wildfire, tree mortality, forest degradation, and deforestation. Our current software modernizes land management planning and monitoring with AI-driven data development, user-friendly scenario building and decision support, and forest resilience trends and treatment outcome detection. The system quantifies potential and actual treatment benefits, helping to grow markets for ecosystem services (carbon, water, biodiversity, sustainable forest-derived products).

Our initial platform (launched in September 2021) is focused on temperate, “fire-adapted” landscapes in California and the Western US. Our mission is global; our roadmap expands into other geographies and forest types accordingly.

Driven by our sense of urgency to protect vital forests and the services they provide, we use our expertise to build sophisticated, AI/ML-driven, user friendly products to democratize the use of data and accelerate the process of stabilizing and restoring our forests.

Vibrant Planet is backed by climate and ecosystem resilience solutions leaders, including Grantham Foundation, Earthshot, Elemental Excelerator, Ecosystem Integrity Fund, Chris Cox (CPO at FB), Neil Hunt (ex-CPO of Netflix), Cisco, Valia Ventures, and Halogen Ventures.

For further information, please visit: VibrantPlanet.net

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Job Description

We are seeking a motivated individual to join our Impact team to serve in partnership/client expansion into and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the co-development of a Vibrant Planet community wildfire protection platform along with a cross-functional team of application engineers, data scientists, wildfire modeling analysts, and impact team members. In addition, this position will apply partnership success processes, including onboarding, training, and guiding customers as they leverage Vibrant Planet to conduct multi-jurisdictional community protection planning.

The ideal candidate possesses significant communication, facilitation, leadership, and/or storytelling skills, combined with a community wildfire protection planning background. Additional experience working in natural resources or multi-jurisdictional, stakeholder-driven community resilience/restoration project planning is desired.

Long-term, this position will primarily focus on partnership/client expansion and/or the success of customers as they leverage Vibrant Planet to meet their community protection planning goals. Additional duties include advising and providing feedback for technical and product development across the company.

While the position is mostly virtual, travel will be required. Travel may be up to several times per quarter. The majority of this work occurs in the western United States, but Vibrant Planet opportunities may occur across the world.

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Roles and Responsibilities

While this list is extensive, we are interested in hearing from qualified candidates who care deeply about protecting communities from growing wildfire risk.

• Support, advise, and provide iterative feedback, as an SME, to an interdisciplinary team developing a platform to support community wildfire protection planning.
• Support the end-to-end partnership process, assisting in the prospecting and qualifying to managing and closing new deployments. Leverage your consultative approach to forge relationships with senior leadership and relevant stakeholders to demonstrate Vibrant Planet’s value.
• Provide training, technical advice, and support to communities, agencies, and partners, utilizing Vibrant Planet, while engaged in community wildfire protection planning processes such as Community Wildfire Protection Plans, landscape resilience planning, and/or other types of multi-jurisdictional community protection or landscape resilience planning.
• Lead, facilitate, and/or coordinate meetings with client and client stakeholders both virtually or in-person.
• Prepare presentations and educational/ technical communication products that describe  complex scientific or data-driven processes to the layperson.
• Understand the client’s needs and goals in community wildfire protection and landscape resilience planning and develop tailored solutions or recommendations using Vibrant Planet.
• Articulate the value propositions of Vibrant Planet product features, and/or services, that can benefit the client or prospective customer’s organization.
• Attend industry events and trade shows, traveling to meet prospects across the US. Expect to travel every month.
• Support the presentation of wireframes and product demonstrations; along with the creation of business cases for prospects and qualified leads.
• Collaborate closely with our sales leadership, customer success, marketing, operations, product, and project management teams to ensure successful client engagement.
• Assist clients in applying for grants or soliciting other types of funding for community wildfire or landscape resilience planning.
• Assist clients in implementing community wildfire protection or landscape resilience treatments leveraging the Vibrant Planet platform.
• Participate in a high volume, fast-paced work environment involving cross-communication and collaboration with various internal teams
• Provide feedback to other teams on a broad range of topics from product roadmap, to scientific research, and a go to market strategy –all of which can result in creating positive impacts for communities and natural systems.
• As an early member to the impact team, you will help shape process and playbooks to support a scaling business.

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Requirements

Basic Knowledge and Abilities:

• Knowledge of community wildfire planning processes including Community Wildfire Protection Plan development or community wildlife risk mitigation techniques.
• Experience in at least one of the three following scenarios:
  • Leading or co-leading the development of a Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
  • Reviewing or researching multiple community wildfire protection plans.
  • Facilitating multiple community protection planning processes.
• Experience leading others in complex, multi-staged processes to reach predetermined goals and objectives.
• The ability to independently research and prepare written, audio-visual, or other form of communication describing complex scientific processes to a layperson audience.
• The ability to virtually, or in person, lead a stakeholder or multi-jurisdictional meeting.
• The knowledge of needs and pain points of each collaborator or stakeholder within a multi-jurisdictional community wildfire protection planning process.
• The ability to effectively communicate the value and Return On Investment that Vibrant Planet provides to the customer's organization, their stakeholders, and their planning needs.

Process & Problem Solving:

• Proven track record of designing, refining, or implementing scalable processes and/or workflows that improve overall team success to reach goals or meet company metrics.
• Proficiency with or willingness to learn customer success tools (Vibrant Planet’s decision support platform, CRM software, Project Management Software, etc.).
• Ability to thrive in an environment of uncertainty and ambiguity, where change is frequent and team needs change quickly to address customer needs.

Duty Requirements:

• Full time, year-round employment.
• Virtual position with an operational independent/home office with sufficient internet speeds.
• Some travel is required.

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Compensation

$120k - $140k (dependent on experience)

Benefits:

• Health insurance
• Unlimited PTO policy
• 401k w/future match
• Company equity
• Home office set-up allowance (one time)

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Location

Remote (USA)

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Equal Opportunity Employer

‍Vibrant Planet is committed to diversity. We encourage applicants from all cultures, races, colors, religions, sexes, national or regional origins, ages, disability status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military, or other status protected by law to apply.

We are most interested in finding the best candidate for the job, and that candidate may come from a less traditional background, but have capacity to grow into and thrive in the position after some mentoring. We do not require that you have experience with every job description task. We will consider any equivalent combination of knowledge, skills, education, and experience to meet minimum qualifications. We encourage each candidate to think broadly about their unique background and skill set and how it may relate to the role.

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