Senior Technical Recruiter

About this role

What We Do


Shepherd is a technology-driven Managing General Underwriter (MGU) transforming commercial Property & Casualty insurance for high-hazard industries. 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.


We’re building the fastest, smartest commercial risk platform, where underwriting expertise, data, and automation work together to deliver:

• Faster decisions
• Smarter, more accurate pricing
• Better risk outcomes

With Shepherd, safety, speed, and quality no longer trade off against one another — they compound. We’re not just modernizing insurance products. We’re building the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services, where technology, underwriting, and partnerships operate in harmony to support the world’s most important industries — and the progress they make possible.


Our Investors


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

• Spark Capital
• Costanoa Ventures
• Y Combinator
• Susa Ventures
• Intact Ventures
• And several others

Our Team


We're a team of technologists and insurance enthusiasts, bridging the two worlds together. Check out our About page to learn more.


The Role


About the Role:
We’re looking for a Senior Technical Recruiter to help build the team that will define the future of tech-enabled insurance. You’ll own Shepherd’s end-to-end recruiting efforts across Engineering, Product, Design, and Actuarial — acting as a true partner to hiring managers and a high-agency builder of scalable recruiting processes.


This is a high-impact role: you’ll shape the talent bar, develop repeatable systems, and ensure every candidate has an exceptional experience. If you thrive in fast-moving environments, enjoy building from first principles, and love working with curious, motivated teammates, you’ll fit rig...