Executive Director

Position type: Staff

Lead the future of public good mapping

For 30 years, GreenInfo Network has powered the maps behind big conservation wins, fair redistricting fights, park equity, and climate solutions. Now we need a leader for what’s next.

For only the second time in three decades, we are hiring a new Executive Director.

Your platform: A stable $2M organization with an engaged board and 15 seasoned professional staff who are award-winning cartographers, astute analysts, gifted designers, and skilled developers. We don’t just make maps—we create the tools and data that drive decisions and impact.

Your impact: When California allocates park funding, LA County plans for equity, or The Nature Conservancy maps regional priorities—they use our work. You’ll work with world-leading organizations across the U.S., on projects that tackle issues that matter: housing, wildfire, voting rights, park access.

Your opportunity: Rare combination of financial stability and growth potential. Established fee-for-service model, expanding client base, and a proven team.

About us and why we’re hiring

GreenInfo Network is an Oakland-based nonprofit that creates, analyzes, visualizes, and communicates information in the public interest. We specialize in geospatial data analysis, cartographic design, web application design/development, and related work in design and development based on spatial information. We work as a consultant to the many groups and agencies who engage us. We help public interest groups with a wide range of interactive, data, and cartographic projects. We’re widely known for the quality of what we do and our positive relationships with our clients.

Being GreenInfo’s Executive Director is a unique and special opportunity for a gifted leader in the mapping space to guide an organization known nationally for its work in social-good mapping, data, and design. It’s also an opportunity to build on strengths, leading an organization with a long-tenured team, sound finances, and a great reputation.

Qualities we’re looking for:

• Strategic vision, to guide the organization’s evolution in the public-good geospatial and mapping space
• Public profile, to get our work and name out to key audiences and win new projects.
• Keen interest in organizational culture, including new ways to collaborate and manage a team with diverse skillsets and needs
• Experience with business and operations, ensuring core business and operations functions are accomplished.
• Clear, careful communicator with clients and team members
• Considerate, compassionate manager who helps the team collaborate
• Commitment to public good work and to equity inside the organization and in our work with clients

Specific skills and experience we’re interested in:

• A humble and open approach to leadership — ready to ask questions and build on what works, but also make changes where those are needed
• Strong written and verbal communication, especially for client-facing meetings and public presentations, with the ability and desire to communicate complex topics in simple and approachable ways
• Demonstrated skills in managing a team with competing projects in the context of multiple priorities, budgets, and deadlines
• Experience successfully writing proposals and winning work for technical teams.
• Experience managing technical teams in hybrid and remote environments
• Comfort in wearing a few hats (for example, managing an HR consultant and keynoting a conference) and understanding how to balance them
• Previous experience in either nonprofits or client services consulting. A huge plus for both.

At GreenInfo, we work at the unique intersection of technology and nonprofit advocacy, with a large part of our history in support of land conservation. To serve the public good while pushing the edge of new tech is extremely rewarding, and our work in conservation has evolved and expanded into a range of spheres, including park equity and public health mapping. While we celebrate more than 29 years helping nonprofits in this sphere, we also recognize that both the tech industry and the conservation movement have histories of exclusion. We are conscious of that history, and are focused on improving our hiring practices, organizational culture, and project approaches to be ever more inclusive. GreenInfo Network is an equal opportunity employer. Women, people of color, and members of the LGBTQ+ community are encouraged to apply for this position.

We believe we all bring our whole selves to work, and we strive to foster a culture where we take care of ourselves, each other, and our clients. Based on 29 years of being a small, financially stable nonprofit where staff often stay for a long time, we value flexibility and accommodating the needs of our staff and their families.

This is a full-time, exempt staff position with benefits. Salary starts at $145K, negotiable commensurate with experience. In addition to the core salary, we also offer annual supplemental salary to all staff based on overall organizational performance. This has been in the range of 5% to 7% annually over the past decade, though it depends on available net income and reserves.

Work location: Candidates for this role must reside in California. This is a hybrid role with some on-site work at our Oakland main office.  Our team is a hybrid of fully remote (in several states) and on-site staff located in the SF Bay Area.

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• Name your resume lastname-firstname-resume.pdf and cover letter lastname-firstname-cover.pdf

To apply, please fill out this form, and upload your resume and cover letter in the form. We will review applications and contact candidates on a rolling basis.

Experience and Qualifications

Leadership and vision

• Substantial public-facing profile as a leader in some aspect of geospatial work
• Ability to develop and communicate a forward-looking vision for a team, incorporating input from the team.
• Track record of communicating that vision externally and creating partnerships/client relationships that serve our mission and fund the organization
• High-level technical acumen and understanding of the diverse technologies and techniques used by data analysts, cartographers, designers, design researchers, developers, and technical project managers.

Management and organizational culture

• Demonstrated skills in managing staff in the context of competing priorities, budgets, and deadlines.
• Successful mentorship of other staff and development of strong team dynamics.
• Effective written and verbal communication internally and externally, especially to clients.
• Demonstrated record of successful delivery of complex technical and/or creative project work, preferably in a client-services context.
• Demonstrated interest in public-good work, preferably with a focus on social equity
• Commitment to ensuring the work we do, and how we do it, is ever more inclusive

Finance and operations

• Familiarity with standard accounting reports (P+L, Balance Sheet)
• Experience tracking and forecasting income and expenses.
• Comfort in scenario planning and change management when reality diverges from plan.