Everbridge is a global software company that helps organizations keep people safe and businesses running. Our enterprise SaaS solutions enable customers to prepare for, respond to, and recover from critical events, acting faster when it matters most.
We’re looking for a Chief, Meteorology and Weather Risk to serves as Everbridge's principal authority and strategic leader on all matters relating to weather and climate risk. This senior-level role is responsible for shaping the company’s end-to-end approach to meteorological intelligence, spanning forecasting, analytics, client advisory services, and real-time alerting.
The successful candidate will guide Everbridge’s strategy for monetizing and operationalizing weather intelligence offerings to enhance customer resilience, support product innovation, and reinforce our leadership in risk-based decision support. This role demands not only deep expertise in meteorology and atmospheric science (preferably PhD-level), but also proven experience in customer engagement, strategic communication, and cross-functional leadership.
What you'll do
- Serve as the organization’s senior subject matter expert on all atmospheric and climatological risks, including extreme weather events, long-term climate trends, and environmental hazards.
- Design and lead Everbridge’s weather intelligence strategy, integrating predictive analytics, forecasting, and situational awareness into the company’s risk and resilience platforms.
- Define how weather and climate risk intelligence integrates into Everbridge’s overall critical event management framework, ensuring cross-domain synergy between natural hazard monitoring, threat intelligence, and business continuity services.
- Own the strategic roadmap for Everbridge’s weather-related offerings, collaborating with Product and Engineering teams to define features, data pipelines, and API integrations.
- Develop structured feedback channels with enterprise clients to refine forecasting accuracy, alert thresholds, and risk communication effectiveness.
- Collaborate with Global Insights, Product, Engineering, and Real-Time Monitoring teams to evolve Everbridge’s meteorological products and services.
- Act as a public-facing thought leader, presenting in webinars, leading industry panels, contributing to white papers, and representing Everbridge in key customer and public forums.
- Develop and deliver bespoke weather risk briefings for high-value customers, especially those in critical infrastructure, healthcare, energy, and logistics sectors.
- Partner with the Sales, Marketing, and Customer Success teams to evangelize weather-related capabilities and shape client-facing messaging.
- Identify and pursue new monetization pathways for weather intelligence, including vertical-specific use cases and strategic partnerships. Quantify and report on the commercial impact of weather-risk products.
- Build and maintain a strong network across the meteorological and climate science communities, including academia, private sector forecasters, and national meteorological agencies.
- Advise corporate clients on resilience planning, seasonal risk outlooks, and operational readiness around severe weather and environmental hazards.
What you'll bring:
- Advanced degree in Meteorology, Atmospheric Science, or related field (PhD preferred).
- Minimum of 8 years of professional experience in meteorological forecasting, environmental risk management, or hazard intelligence, 6 years with a master’s degree, and 3 years with a PhD.
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex meteorological data into actionable risk intelligence for executive-level stakeholders.
- Experience working with or advising critical infrastructure sectors and enterprise resilience teams.
- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, with a track record of public speaking, media engagement, or academic publication.
- Deep understanding of weather modeling platforms, GIS-based hazard mapping, and real-time alerting tools.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a strong grasp of the evolving weather-tech landscape.
The reasonably estimated salary for this role at Everbridge ranges from $94,000 - $126,000 and may also include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Everbridge offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, disability income benefits, life and AD&D insurance, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, and fitness reimbursements.
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- Access to sensitive or confidential information, such as financial records, proprietary data, or client information.
- Management of cash, company funds, or other valuable assets.
- Work in environments requiring heightened security measures.
- Compliance with contractual or regulatory requirements specific to the position.
We evaluate each applicant's criminal history individually, considering its nature, timing, and relevance to the specific job duties, while maintaining our commitment to fair hiring practices and promoting workplace equity.
About Everbridge
Everbridge empowers enterprises and government organizations to anticipate, mitigate, respond to, and recover stronger from critical events. In today’s unpredictable world, resilient organizations minimize impact to people and operations, absorb stress, and return to productivity faster when deploying critical event management (CEM) technology. Everbridge digitizes organizational resilience by combining intelligent automation with the industry’s most comprehensive risk data to Keep People Safe and Organizations Running™. For more information, visit www.everbridge.com, read the company blog, and follow on Twitter. Everbridge… Empowering Resilience Everbridge is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, creed, color, religion, or sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.
