# AI Product Manager at Shepherd

- Company: Shepherd
- What the company does: The all-in-one learning co-pilot. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://www.shepherd.study
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $190K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-06
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/shepherd/40c71ff0-f3ce-4237-9538-4ceae6e7870a
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/shepherd-ai-product-manager/

## About the role

We're looking for an exceptional, entrepreneurial technical product manager to own the roadmap, execution, discovery, and vision for Nova, and to help define what autonomous underwriting looks like for the whole industry.

## What they're looking for

- Hungry, with the track record to back it. 4+ years in product, and you've owned the direction of a hard technical product and can point to what came of it. We care about what you've built and how fast you move more than how many years you've been at it
- Technical in practice. You can read a PR, contribute in an architecture discussion, write your own SQL, and reason about why a model behaves the way it does. You've built things, at work or on your own
- You've shipped AI into production. You know the difference between a demo and a system people rely on, and you have informed opinions about evals and model quality
- Statistically literate. You're comfortable reasoning about distributions and thresholds, and you interrogate a metric before you trust it
- Willing to go deep on the domain. Understanding construction risk well enough to encode it is most of the advantage here. If learning an unfamiliar industry in detail sounds tedious rather than interesting, this won't be a good fit
- A direct communicator. You write clearly, you disagree in the room, and you don't need a deck to make a decision

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