Our mission is to create the first comprehensive platform that combines top-tier insurance offerings with world-class software so commercial businesses can manage risk and prevent losses. We started with the $10T commercial construction industry and are expanding to new verticals in 2025.

Our thesis is that technology can solve the sustainability challenges facing commercial insurance, and to accomplish this we’re building a platform that incentivizes our clients to adopt the best tools when they buy our coverage. Across construction and other commercial markets, technology is available but fundamentally underutilized, despit...

36 people - US$ 20.5M Fundings - founded in 2021 - 36 employees

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Seniority:

5 - 7 years of experience working in product design for innovative tech companies or top tier startups (specifically SaaS)

Work experience

Experience shipping several key products or significant features at the lead designer

Experience iterating with engineer and other team members on visual and UX designs to create the best user experience possible

Time as a lead product designer or head of design at an early-mid stage startup

Education:

Design specific schooling

Hard skills:

Fluency in Figma and prototyping tools

Understanding of the technical limitations and workflow for building web interfaces

Soft skills:

Great presentation, collaboration, and communication skills!

Someone who is flexible, quick thinking, and easy to work with

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We’re hiring a Product Designer to be a founding design leader, shaping our platform’s UX, branding, and overall design system. This role is perfect for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, iterative environment, working closely with engineering, product, and customers to create intuitive experiences.

We’re building a category-defining platform at the intersection of insurance, technology, and risk management, and design will play a crucial role in our success. Looking for someone who’s excited to own and scale design from the ground up!

As our founding designer, you will have a wide product surface area, covering customer facing products, the company´s internal platform, and more.

You will work closely with our engineering team and our Cofounder + CTO, taking their feedback and making fast iterations. We don't expect you to get it right the first time (no one does) but we do expect you to seek out and quickly turn around feedback both from the team and our users.

• Own all of design at Shepherd, shaping our design language, branding, user experience and more
• Create a design process and review process with engineering
• Work closely with the Cofounder/CTO and Head of Product on ideation
• Work closely with customers to understand their needs and design mocks and/or prototypes to collect feedback
• Work closely with engineering to make sure we’re building products that are easy to use and intuitive

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