Shepherd

Shepherd

Actuarial Data Science Lead

San Francisco

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 20 days ago
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About the role

  • You'll directly shape the quality of the book we write and the products we bring to market.
  • This is a high-impact, individual-contributor role for someone who thrives at the intersection of statistical rigor and shipping real products.
  • You will work closely with actuaries, underwriters, and engineers to turn data into decisions.

Responsibilities

  • Own commercial auto pricing models end-to-end from feature development through deployment and iterate on them as the book grows and new data sources come online
  • Build and deploy predictive models build and deploy loss cost models that set pricing for Shepherd's commercial auto book
  • Design and maintain feature pipelines that transform raw submission, claims, and third-party data into model-ready inputs
  • Collaborate with actuaries and underwriters to translate domain expertise into model features and validate outputs against real-world outcomes
  • Develop model monitoring frameworks to track drift, performance degradation, and calibration over time
  • 7+ years of professional experience building and deploying personal auto or commercial lines predictive pricing models in production
  • As an Actuarial Data Science Lead on the Actuarial & Predictive Analytics team, you will own the development of pricing models starting with commercial auto, one of our highest-volume and most data-rich lines.

Requirements

  • Familiarity with actuarial concepts (loss development, exposure rating, credibility)
  • Proficiency in Python and SQL
  • Experience with feature engineering on messy, real-world, small data
  • Ability to reason from first principles and communicate results crisply to non-technical audiences
  • Experience managing a small team or project
  • Experience in insurance, insurtech, fintech, or other regulated industries
  • Experience with NLP/document extraction from unstructured insurance submissions

Benefits

  • 100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision
  • 🥕 Fertility benefits and family building support
  • Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform
  • 🏥 Premium Healthcare
  • 🏖️ Unlimited PTO

Company info

  • Shepherd is an AI-native commercial insurance platform transforming how high-hazard industries get covered.
  • 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.
  • The infrastructure behind the AI boom - data centers, semiconductor fabs, renewable energy assets - has to be built and insured.
  • But traditional carriers weren't built for this speed:
  • Complex commercial construction projects routinely wait weeks for a single quote
  • Legacy carriers rely on static applications and disconnected systems
  • Brokers chase carriers through calls, emails, and resubmissions
  • We built Shepherd to solve that.
  • Our AI performs the same underwriting workflows in seconds, and integrates real-time data from construction technology partners - Procore, Autodesk, OpenSpace, DroneDeploy, and others - to see risk as it actually exists, not just as it was reported on a static form.
  • We're pursuing the most ambitious technical vision in commercial insurance: fully autonomous underwriting.
  • We're closing in on the first fully agentic submission in the industry - email in, price out, no human intervention until the last mile.
  • With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another - they compound.
  • We're building:
  • Faster decisions
  • Smarter, more accurate pricing
  • Better risk outcomes for insureds who invest in safer practices
  • We're not just modernizing insurance products.
  • We're building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.
  • In March 2026, Shepherd raised a $42M Series B https://www.linkedin.com/posts/justindlevine29_today-were-announcing-our-42m-series-b-activity-7442200922291630080-z1gw?rcm=ACoAAAkOMEwBRnAAXmdnQcaOJeioCu6VCqR6Gzc&utm_medium=member_desktop&utm_source=share - bringing total funding to over $60M - led by Intact Private Capital, the investment arm of one of the largest insurers in the world.
  • Intact is not only our lead investor but also a carrier partner, a testament to the confidence the incumbent industry has in what we're building.
  • Our investors:
  • Intact Private Capital https://www.intactfc.com/about-us/intact-ventures
  • Spark Capital https://www.sparkcapital.com/
  • Costanoa Ventures https://costanoa.vc/
  • Y Combinator https://www.ycombinator.com/
  • Susa Ventures https://www.susaventures.com/
  • And several others
  • We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together.
  • Check out our About https://www.shepherdinsurance.com/about page to learn more.
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