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About the role
Shepherd's underwriting approach is 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 clients' specific needs. Define the strategy for professional liability, including target classes, lines of business, limits, attachment points, geographies, appetite, and growth and loss-ratio targets. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.
What they're looking for
- 8+ years of professional liability underwriting, with deep expertise across architects and engineers E&O as well as exposure to other industries such as technology, financial services, real estate, manufacturing or healthcare
- A proven record of profitable growth: originating new business, quoting, binding, and building a professional liability book while managing to loss-ratio and combined-ratio targets
- Strong technical command of risk selection, underwriting models, exposure and loss analysis, loss development and trends, pricing, and coverage across E&O and MPL
- Strong technical command of risk selection, application and financial review, pricing, and coverage, including claims-made forms, retroactive dates, prior acts, extended reporting periods, retentions, and primary and excess structures
- Sound judgment on manuscript endorsements, contractual liability, and emerging exposures across professional services, including technology, regulatory, and litigation trends
- Established broker relationships at the regional and national level that can drive submission flow from day one
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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