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About the role
Shepherd's underwriting approach is broker and client-centric with a heavy emphasis on an efficient process. Our goal is to leverage our technology and data to make quick, informed underwriting decisions tailored to our brokers' specific needs. Define the wholesale strategy, including target products and classes, E&S appetite, broker partners, and growth and loss-ratio targets by line of business. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 12+ years in the wholesale and E&S commercial P&C market, with leadership roles at a carrier, MGA/MGU, or wholesale specialty underwriting organization
- A proven record of building or significantly scaling a wholesale business, product line, or channel, with P&L ownership for premium, profit, and loss-ratio results
- Deep relationships with national and regional wholesale brokerage teams that can drive submission flow from day one
- Strong command of how E&S business and the wholesale channel dynamics work, including surplus lines regulation and compliance, wholesale producer agreements, BOR protections, commission structures, and open brokerage and binding authority models
- Experience leading, mentoring, or managing underwriters, including setting authority and running underwriting audits
- Executive presence to present strategy and results to leadership, capacity partners, and reinsurers
More about this role
The world is building data centers, energy projects, hospitals, schools, and critical infrastructure. Every one of those projects needs insurance to move forward. Yet the process of getting that insurance still depends on scattered documents, manual work, and weeks of back-and-forth.
Shepherd is rebuilding commercial insurance with software, data, AI, and deep underwriting expertise. We started in construction and energy, where understanding the specifics of a project matters and better decisions have consequences far beyond a screen.
We develop insurance products, decide which risks to insure and how to price them, and partner with established insurers to back the coverage. We own the platform our team uses to turn complex submissions into coverage for the builders and operators shaping the world around us.
Our engineers, designers, underwriters, CX, and actuaries build together. The problems span turning messy documents into reliable data, making pricing more precise, and designing AI agents that can take on increasingly complex underwriting work.
The ambition is a platform where experts spend more time on judgment and relationships, supported by software that handles the work...
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