AI Product Manager
ShepherdCommercial Construction company
San Francisco, United StatesSenior
Costanoa Ventures
Spark Capital
Susa Ventures
Intact Ventures
Greenlight Reinsurance
Era Ventures
Product
About the role
TL;DR
Owns the roadmap, execution, and vision for autonomous underwriting technology.
- •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.
- •This is Nova's first product hire.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the product end to end: Vision, discovery, prioritization, execution, and the UX and design decisions along the way.
- •Understand the user deeply: Sit with underwriters, read submissions yourself, and build the instinct for why one contractor's paperwork is far harder to handle than another's.
- •Own the definition of correct: Shape what gets measured, where materiality thresholds sit, and how field-level results roll up into claims we're willing to make publicly.
- •Set the bar for what autonomous means at Shepherd.
- •Ship fast with engineering: Write prompts, dig through eval data, and pull failing runs to work out problems.
- •Requirements 4+ years in product, with a track record of owning the direction of a hard technical product.
- •Technical in practice: Can read a PR, contribute in an architecture discussion, write SQL, and reason about model behavior.
- •Shipped AI into production and understand evals and model quality.
- •Statistically literate and comfortable reasoning about distributions and thresholds.
- •Willing to go deep on the domain of construction risk.
- •Direct communicator.
- •Opinionated, high agency, experimental.
Required skills
Product ManagementLLMsPythonSQLGitAgileRoadmappingCustomer DiscoveryProduct AnalyticsPRDsOKRsDesign Thinking
Domain expertise
insurtechfintechai
Benefits & perks
Premium Healthcare, Fertility benefits and family building support, Unlimited PTO, Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks, SF, NYC, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and LA Offices, Professional Development, Competitive 401(k) Plan, Dog-friendly office
Tech stack
PythonSQLLLMsOpenAI APIAnthropic APIGemini APILangChainHugging FaceGitLinuxJiraConfluenceFigmaPostmanREST API
