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Shepherd · New York City · On-site

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About Shepherd

The all-in-one learning co-pilot. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Lead event strategy and execution: Own conference and field marketing strategy across industry events, vertical events, brokerage events, and Shepherd-hosted programs. This world is fragmented and disorganized. You will bring clarity to this chaos. Design and execute broker-facing dinners, roundtables, office activations, and one-of-one experiences for key distribution partners.

What they're looking for

  • About the role
  • 5+ years across some combination of brand, events, field marketing, or experiential marketing in high-growth B2B, consumer, fintech, hospitality, or agency environments
  • Strong creative taste and sense of brand: you can instantly judge whether work is on-trend, on-brand, high quality, and explain why
  • Comfortable directing designers, photographers, videographers, and content agencies to produce consistent, high-quality output
  • Experience shaping and amplifying executive voices across social and earned channels, either directly or in close partnership with comms/PR
  • Comfortable in tools like Figma and modern media/creative tooling, able to do light hands-on work when needed
More about this role

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...

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