Shepherd
Senior Underwriter
10mo ago
160000 –205000 USD / yearUSASenior
Senior Underwriter role focused on AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming high-hazard industry coverage.
About the company
- We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together. Check out our About page to learn more.
Responsibilities
- Shepherd's underwriting approach will be client-centric with a heavy emphasis on an efficient process. Our goal will be to leverage our technology and data to make quick, informed, underwriting decisions tailored to our client's specific needs.
- Candidates must be able to demonstrate success in marketing, producer management, new business development, and the ability to successfully negotiate on all levels with both internal and external partners.
- Teamwork, communication, and negotiation skills are required.
- Solid background in risk analysis and experience with construction and/or casualty underwriting.
- Knowledge and proficiency with compliance, coverage, products and pricing strategies.
- Be adaptable and creative in a fast paced startup environment
- This is an onsite position in our New York City, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, or Dallas Fort Worth offices.
- #LI-Onsite
Requirements
- We are looking for a motivated and eager individual who’s passionate about the future of construction and eager to do the best work of their career.
Conditions
- 🏥 Premium Healthcare 100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision
- 🥕 Fertility benefits and family building support
- 🏖️ Unlimited PTO Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform
- 🥗 Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks We work together, and enjoy meals together too
Other
- Shepherd is an AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming how high-hazard industries get covered. Our mission is to make risk frictionless for the builders and operators shaping the physical world — protecting progress from concept through construction and into decades of operation.
- The infrastructure behind the AI boom — data centers, semiconductor fabs, renewable energy assets — has to be built and insured. But traditional carriers weren't built for this speed:
- Complex commercial construction projects routinely wait weeks for a single quote
- Legacy carriers rely on static applications and disconnected systems
- Brokers chase carriers through calls, emails, and resubmissions
- We built Shepherd to solve that. Our AI performs the same underwriting workflows in seconds, and integrates real-time data from construction technology partners — Procore, Autodesk, OpenSpace, DroneDeploy, and others — to see risk as it actually exists, not just as it was reported on a static form.
- We're pursuing the most ambitious technical vision in commercial insurance: fully autonomous underwriting. We're closing in on the first fully agentic submission in the industry — email in, price out, no human intervention until the last mile.
- With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another — they compound. We're building:
- Faster decisions
- Smarter, more accurate pricing
- Better risk outcomes for insureds who invest in safer practices
- We're not just modernizing insurance products. We're building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.
- In March 2026, Shepherd raised a $42M Series B — bringing total funding to over $60M — led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world. Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building. Our investors:
- Intact Private Capital
- Spark Capital
- Costanoa Ventures
- Y Combinator
- Susa Ventures
- And several others
- You have a minimum of 5+ years of previous experience in the commercial underwriting space (Construction, Casualty, and/or Builder's Risk experience preferred)
- You aren’t afraid of ambiguity
- You have a strong work ethic, are self-motivated, and have the ability to manage multiple tasks/projects simultaneously
- You have exceptional interpersonal skills (verbal and written) and a high EQ
- You have strong sales and marketing skills and are able to position accounts and close deals
- Underwriting duties will include developing and negotiating price, coverage, terms and conditions for all new business and renewals while actively identifying target accounts that fit Shepherd’s underwriting appetite
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- 📚 Professional Development Access to premium coaching, including leadership development
- 🐶 Dog-friendly office Plenty of dogs to play with and make friends with in the SF office