What We Do Yesterday's insurance wasn't built for today's risk. We see it in the data and we feel it in the field. Emerging technology can reinvent how risk is priced and managed, faster and smarter, anchored in proven expertise. First-movers will define the next era of commercial risk management, and Shepherd is building it. Shepherd is a technology-driven Managing General Underwriter (MGU) transforming commercial Property & Casualty insurance for high-hazard industries. 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. We're building the fastest, smartest commercial risk platform, where underwriting expertise, data, and automation work together to deliver:

Faster decisions
Smarter, more accurate pricing
Better risk outcomes

With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another. They compound. We're not just modernizing insurance products. We're building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services, where technology, underwriting, and partnerships operate in harmony to support the world's most important industries and the progress they make possible. Our Investors 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
Costanoa Ventures
Spark Capital
Susa Ventures
Y Combinator
And several others

Our Team We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together. Check out our About page to learn more. Growth Lead We’re hiring an AI-pilled growth marketer to build Shepherd’s growth engine for brokers: paid media, account-based marketing (ABM), broker lifecycle management workflows and automation that connects it all through submissions. Your title will be Growth Lead reporting to Head of Marketing. About the role Commercial insurance retail brokerage channel is digitally underdeveloped; opportunity to apply AI-driven growth strategies. Responsibilities include:

Owning paid media & ABM campaigns
Building outbound/lifecycle infrastructure
Improving funnel conversion through experimentation & CRO
Implementing GEO/AI search infrastructure
Marketing automation & attribution setup
Producing performance creative assets
Increasing experimentation velocity

Candidate profile:

4+ years growth marketing/demand generation with technical execution experience;
Highly AI-savvy;
Hands-on with strong agency;
Experienced scaling growth programs;
Comfortable creating content;

Bonus: insurtech/fintech/vertical SaaS or AI-native company experience. Company Values:

Think big; build big;
Win together;
Cross aisle (collaborate);
Go get it (act with urgency).

Benefits:

Premium healthcare (100% coverage)
Fertility benefits & family support
Unlimited PTO
Daily meals provided
Multiple office locations (SF, NYC, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago LA)
Professional development coaching
Competitive 401(k) plan
Dog-friendly office.

Compensation: $145K – $190K plus equity & other benefits.