Vibrant Planet

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, reliable data pipelines for ingesting, transforming, and serving large and diverse geospatial datasets. • Develop and drive data quality standards, including validation checks, monitoring, and alerting, to ensure high-quality data is delivered to downstream consumers and clients. • Design and optimize data models, storage formats, and query patterns for analytical and operational use cases. • Collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and other stakeholders to understand data requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs. • Lead and participate in development lifecycle activities including design, coding, testing, and production releases. • Contribute to our evolving engineering culture, standards, tooling, and processes. • Mentor and support other engineers and provide thoughtful code reviews. • Comply with Vibrant Planet’s Information Security Policy and the full security responsibilities detailed in the Employee Handbook, including complete required security training, safeguard customer and company data, keep credentials secure, and report suspected security incidents or policy violations through established channels. • Follow secure development practices, adhere to established change management processes for production systems, protect the confidentiality and integrity of customer data, and promptly address security vulnerabilities in your area of responsibility.

Role Description Utilities is one of Vibrant Planet’s highest growth segments. We’re looking for a dynamic, driven and passionate individual who will grow our impact with electric utilities across the US and beyond. We’re looking for someone who will take an owner’s mindset to: - Set the strategy - Build and close the pipeline - Architect meaningful partnerships - Partner with our fire science and product leaders to accelerate our growth You’ll inherit real momentum. We already serve flagship utility customers, including: - A top-5 US IOU - A mid-size IOU deploying our operational risk platform - A growing cohort of small- to medium-sized utilities We have active partnership conversations with multiple companies across different segments of the utilities space who see differentiated value in combining our fire modeling and risk analytics expertise with their offerings, and can rapidly accelerate our footprint. What we need is a commercially-minded, entrepreneurial leader who can take this early foundation and build it into a scaled, growing business. Company Description

• Define and own Vibrant Planet’s brand strategy — Build and maintain Vibrant Planet’s brand equity, as well as its sub-brands, including Pyrologix brand as well as product and model brands • Define and own the overall marketing strategy — demand generation, content, communications, and field/partner marketing — aligned to company growth objectives and sales pipeline needs. • Build and articulate a compelling narrative for a complex, multi-faceted market that includes federal land agencies, state and local governments, utilities, insurers, and conservation finance players. • Coordinate closely with product team and product marketing, owning positioning, messaging, and go-to-market strategy for new platform capabilities and customer segments. • Drive demand generation programs that deliver qualified pipeline in partnership with our sales and impact teams. • Establish Vibrant Planet as a thought leader in wildfire risk forecasting and mitigation/adaptation, community and forest resilience, and climate-smart land management through earned media, content, events, and strategic partnerships. • Collaborate closely with the science, product, and impact teams to translate technical complexity into clear, credible, and compelling stories for both technical and non-technical audiences. • Oversee PR, communications, and executive visibility — including executive and key team members’ public profiles. • Build and manage a high-performing marketing team, including hiring, mentoring, and managing agency and contractor relationships. • Define and track KPIs across brand awareness, pipeline contribution, content engagement, and customer marketing effectiveness.

• Be the expert on named account user experiences • Advocate effectively for the interests of users • Synthesize user needs and technical capabilities into coherent, prioritized features • Own the product roadmap • Collaborate with Design and Engineering to deliver effectively • Develop and pressure-test business cases for new product bets • Support sales and marketing activities with training, collateral, and collaboration • Contribute to proposals, pilots, and strategic account conversations

• Design, build, and maintain scalable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud infrastructure on AWS using Infrastructure as Code best practices. • Own and evolve our Atmos-based IaC framework, including stack configuration, component architecture, and environment lifecycle management. • Develop and maintain Terraform and OpenTofu modules and components, ensuring reusability, consistency, and DRY configuration across environments. • Lead and mature our CI/CD infrastructure pipelines using GitHub Actions, enabling reliable and automated infrastructure deployments. • Manage containerized workloads using Docker and Kubernetes (Helm), supporting our engineering and data science teams. • Build and maintain observability infrastructure using Prometheus and Grafana to ensure system reliability, performance visibility, and rapid incident response. • Collaborate closely with engineers, scientists, and other stakeholders to translate requirements into robust infrastructure solutions. • Lead and participate in development lifecycle activities including design, code review, testing, and production releases. • Mentor and support other engineers, deeply reviewing infrastructure code and elevating engineering standards across the team. • Contribute to our evolving engineering culture, standards, tooling, and processes. • Comply with Vibrant Planet’s Information Security Policy and the full security responsibilities detailed in the Employee Handbook, including complete required security training, safeguard customer and company data, keep credentials secure, and report suspected security incidents or policy violations through established channels. • Follow secure development practices, adhere to established change management processes for production systems, protect the confidentiality and integrity of customer data, and promptly address security vulnerabilities in your area of responsibility.

• Design, build, and ship full-stack features across our Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView, JavaScript, and Postgres stack, spanning both our core wildfire resilience platform and our utilities applications • Work with large geospatial datasets — raster, vector, and tiled data — to surface forest planning, scenario building, and treatment outcome insights to end users • Partner with Product and Design to scope, refine, and deliver user-facing workflows for land managers, foresters, and partner organizations • Own features end-to-end, from technical design through deployment, monitoring, and iteration based on user feedback • Contribute to platform reliability through code review, automated testing, observability, and on-call participation in our Sev process • Collaborate with Environmental Analysis and Infrastructure teams to integrate geospatial models (Pyrologix, ForSys/Patchmax, canopy height) into the application experience • Improve developer experience and engineering velocity through tooling, refactoring, and documentation • Mentor and pair with other engineers, and participate in technical interviews as the team grows

• Virtually, or in person, lead stakeholder or multi-jurisdictional meetings. • Understand the needs and pain points of each collaborator or stakeholder and work with them to problem solve. • Promptly track and respond to client needs in an organized, detail-oriented manner. • Independently research and prepare written, audio-visual, or other forms of communication describing complex scientific processes to a layperson audience. • Communicate the value and return on investment that Vibrant Planet provides to the customer's organization, their stakeholders, and their planning needs. • Cross-functional communication: communicate clearly with internal science and engineering teams. • Perform basic vector operations including buffering, clipping, and geometry cleanup to prepare spatial data for use in the Vibrant Planet platform. • Troubleshoot common spatial data issues such as invalid geometries, incorrect projections, and file formatting problems. • Review client-supplied spatial data to confirm it matches their intent and will work correctly in our system. • Lead customer-facing office hours and tutorials covering foundational spatial data workflows, occasionally in ArcGIS or QGIS. • Partner with the product team to test new features and products from a customer's perspective.

• Provides technical assistance to the Resilience Group staff for conducting remotely sensed forest resource assessments and the development of key metrics for evaluating vegetation management treatment alternatives and benefits on woodlands, forestlands and within the wildland urban interface. • Monitors programs and policies of federal, state and local agencies on vegetation management use and management, laws and regulations to inform staff of potential opportunities. • Conducts resource inventories, obtains planning information, identifies conservation opportunities, and assists in developing conservation plans and contracts consistent with land use or defensible space needs. • Conducts site visits as needed to validate treatment unit attribution, GIS-designated harvest systems and prescriptions. Includes creation of a structured approach for validation and feedback as well as handoff to the customer success team. • Utilizes GIS/GPS software and hardware, FVS, and other software packages to summarize and produce high level analysis and reports for integration into existing workflows. • Works directly with the Resilience Group and also across the organization with our Software Engineering and Science teams to give feedback and contribute to developments in our technology. • Adheres to data standards and naming conventions, maintains and updates metadata. • Finds and assess quality of data from national, regional, and/or local sources. • Supports the preparation of landscape-specific Technical Reports.