Data Science Manager

Location: Remote, New York / Bay Area / D.C. a plus

Reports to: Director of Conservation Science

Salary: $90 to $110k depending on experience

Travel: Up to 15%  

Preferred Start Date: December 1st, 2025

Employment Status: Full-time, non-exempt

Priority Application Deadline: October 10th, 2025

About Blue Forest

Blue Forest is a conservation finance nonprofit founded in 2015, focusing on advancing ecosystem restoration through scientific research, financial innovation, and collaborative partnerships. Since 2018, Blue Forest has managed investor capital through its flagship financial product, the Forest Resilience Bond (FRB), which deploys private capital to finance forest restoration projects to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. More recently, Blue Forest has also established Blue Forest Asset Management (BFAM), an investment management platform that connects investors to compelling, mission-aligned opportunities in a broader set of asset classes, including private equity and private credit investments, beyond FRB projects.

Blue Forest is made up of an interdisciplinary team of scientists, engineers, foresters, finance professionals, and communications professionals committed to the mission: “To accelerate ecological restoration through conservation finance, enabling climate resilience for ecosystems and communities.”

Employees at Blue Forest are:

• Committed to Continuous Learning

• Driven by Collaboration

• Thoughtful Innovators for Impact

• Grounded in Science

• Passionate about Restoring Earth’s Ecosystems
  

Position Summary

Blue Forest's new strategic plan emphasizes capacity building to apply scientific tools for benefit accounting and communicating nature-positive pathways to new audiences. The Data Science Manager will provide input to various cross-departmental, fast-paced, collaborative projects. This will power analytics and information that serve the organization's measurement, evaluation, reporting, and storytelling functions. The Data Science Manager will be responsible for organizing data and creating workflows to access and provide insights to the team. They will connect science and project development at Blue Forest, working closely with relationship managers and implementation partners to strengthen technical partnerships. This position will leverage data platforms such as Google Earth Engine and ArcGIS Online (AGOL), as well as other interactive reporting tools used by Blue Forest, to communicate the expected outcomes of our planned and active FRB project portfolio. They will work closely with FRB tracking and impact reporting teams to build “connective tissues” to our implementation partner's data and systems.