Product Design Lead

What We Do

We provide savings on insurance premiums for commercial businesses that are leveraging modern technology on their worksites.

While we began with commercial construction, we're expanding into adjacent sectors, including Energy, Agriculture, and Real Estate.

Our Investors

To date, Shepherd has raised over $20M from leading investors, including :

• Y Combinator - W21 cohort
• Susa Ventures - lead our Pre-Seed round
• Spark Capital - lead our Seed round
• Costanoa Ventures + Intact Ventures - lead our Series A round
• And several more.

Our Team

We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together. Check out our team page to meet some of us!

The Role

About You

You enjoy working in a face-paced environment working closely with leadership on defining product goals and design outcomes. You sweat the details, crafting designs and a product you're proud to share with the world. You respond to customer feedback, oftentimes challenging our earlier assumptions and hypotheses. You enjoy experimenting with different ideas in search of the best solutions. Finally, you care about customers - especially ones who are not tech native, figuring out ways to break down complex workflows into easy-to-use ones.

About the Role

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

As our first full time designer, you will work closely with our engineering team and our Cofounder + CTO, Mo, 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.

We aren't a super traditional team, but we are an extremely effective one. We love unique backgrounds, hard workers, and intelligent people who take pride in everything they do. This is a high impact, high visibility role where you will partner closely with teams across Shepherd to evaluate key questions, solve problems, and drive results.

We have offices in San Francisco and New York. We love working together in person and are looking for candidates who can be onsite at our San Francisco HQ.

What You'll Do :

You would be our dream candidate if....

Benefits

Premium Healthcare

100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision

Unlimited PTO

Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform

Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks

We work together, and enjoy meals together too

SF, NYC, or Dallas-Fort Worth Offices

Premium office spaces on both coasts with daily lunches provided

Professional Development

Access to premium coaching, including leadership development

401(k) Plan

Competitive 401(k) plan offered

Dog-friendly office

Plenty of dogs to play with and make friends with in the SF office