Remote Flight Operations Controller Jobs in British Columbia

veritree is an award-winning climate tech start-up based in Vancouver. Launched in 2021, our technology measures and verifies the impact of global restoration efforts from the ground up. We are on a mission to plant 1 billion verified trees by 2030, collaborating with businesses, planting organizations, and consumers who believe in the transformative power of verified restoration projects to create real and meaningful impact for the planet, nature, and people.

veritree is seeking a Project Manager, Mangroves, to own our largest flagship mangrove partnership end-to-end. This is a hands-on role at the intersection of field operations, restoration science, and remote sensing. You will run the day-to-day relationship with our biggest planting partner, ensuring high-quality data is collected, monitoring is on track, and build and refine the standard operating procedures (SOPs) that govern how mangrove projects run, and bring rigour to how we use drone and satellite imagery to measure survival and ecosystem health. Alongside this partnership, you may also support one to two additional partnerships. You will also own veritree's drone program company-wide, from flight coordination through imagery processing. As our mangrove portfolio grows, this role is positioned to grow with it.

This role suits a forestry or remote sensing professional who is equally comfortable managing a partner relationship, analyzing imagery and field data, and developing the processes that make results repeatable. We value candidates who are direct, transparent, and accountable.

Given this is a hybrid role based in Vancouver, BC, priority will be given to local candidates who are able to work from our office on a hybrid basis.

1. Own the end-to-end relationship with our flagship East Africa mangrove partner - running monthly business reviews, triaging field issues, ensuring monitoring and data collection is on track, and following through consistently so the partner experiences veritree as organized, transparent, and dependable.
2. Establish veritree's drone program on a sound technical footing and provide an evidence-based assessment of ecosystem health.
3. Finish, document, and stabilize the core mangrove SOP set (planting session, survivability, seed germination, monitoring) and make them portable enough to roll out across other mangrove projects.

• Run our largest mangrove planting partner relationship end-to-end as the primary point of contact, across current operations in Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique and planned expansion into new countries.
• Travel to East Africa up to three times a year to meet with our planting partner, foster healthy business relationships, evaluate new opportunities, and audit planting sites. Each trip is typically one to two weeks.
• Support an additional one to two partnerships, applying the same standards and processes across them.
• Own and run all recurring partner meetings, including monthly business reviews: setting agendas, driving decisions, and owning follow-through.
• Communicate clearly, concisely, and transparently with partners operating across different cultural and operating contexts, and be accountable for every commitment made internally or externally.
• Triage issues that arise in the field and coordinate the right internal teams (product, science, data, finance) to resolve them.

• Keep the partner's planting, verification, and survival data accurate and current: owning data hygiene and quality checks on data flowing into our system.
• Track trees from planting through verification, and make sure monitoring tasks (survival checks at defined intervals) are created, scheduled, and completed.
• Manage the outstanding monitoring backlog with a prioritized, batched plan, and provide regular status updates on progress against targets.

• Create, refine, and audit the SOPs that define what we expect of mangrove projects: from planting sessions and evidence requirements to survivability and monitoring.
• Write SOPs at a level general enough to adapt across geographies, species, and partner capacity, so they can be standardized across all mangrove projects.

• Own the drone program at veritree: writing SOPs, owning budgets, coordinating flights, overseeing image capture, and processing imagery into usable outputs.

Requirements

Professional Requirements or Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in forestry, remote sensing, geospatial science, environmental science, or a related discipline (advanced degree a plus).
• Experience in forest or ecosystem restoration monitoring, ideally including mangroves and/or work in East Africa.
• Hands-on experience with remote sensing and drone (UAV) imagery: flight planning, image processing, and analysis.
• Demonstrated project management experience, including managing external partners and delivering on timelines.
• Strong data literacy: comfortable interrogating field and imagery data.
• Ability to travel internationally (10-15% of time). 
• Experience building or standardizing monitoring SOPs across multiple projects or geographies.

Personal Strengths

• Highly accountable and consistent: you do what you say you will do.
• Clear and concise communicator, especially in cross-cultural partner relationships.
• Comfortable building structure and process in a fast-moving startup environment.

Nice to Haves (not mandatory)

• Familiarity with carbon or MRV/MMRV monitoring workflows.
• People management or mentoring experience.

Benefits

At veritree, we recognize that compensation and performance development are key to attracting and retaining top talent. Our approach is grounded in fairness, transparency, and creating opportunities for growth as both our people and business scale.

Some highlights you can expect include:

• Competitive salary with a performance-driven framework that ensures fair and consistent compensation reviews, tied to individual impact and business growth
• Extended health, dental, and vision benefits
• Additional Health Spending Account (HSA) / Lifestyle Spending Account (LSA) to support your well-being and lifestyle interests
• A variety of time-off programs, including vacation, personal days, and a 4-week remote work program each year
• Employee discount with tentree, our sister company
• A flexible, hybrid work environment designed for collaboration and focus-driven impact

veritree ensures that compensation is reviewed fairly and consistently, with opportunities for salary progression tied to sustained performance. As such, the salary range for this role is $90,000 to $120,000 CAD.

This range is positioned around the 50th-75th percentile of market data we've collected, reflecting our commitment to competitive pay. Final offer amounts are based on individual experience and skillset of the candidate demonstrated during the recruitment process.

We reserve the >75th percentile of our salary ranges for internal employees who demonstrate sustained high performance and impact at veritree.

veritree is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a team that represents diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All employment decisions are made on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business needs.