AI Product Manager
Core
Own the end-to-end roadmap, execution, and vision for Nova, Shepherd's fully autonomous underwriting platform that processes construction risk applications and generates priced policies without human intervention.
Role type
Senior technical product manager (autonomous AI systems)
Builds
Fully autonomous underwriting agents for commercial property & casualty insurance
Domain
Insurance (commercial P&C) + AI/ML (autonomous agents, document processing)
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Product ownership (vision, discovery, prioritization), technical product management, AI/ML system evaluation, statistical literacy, SQL, prompt engineering, domain expertise in construction risk
Preferred skills
Experience shipping AI into production, ability to write code for prototyping, deep industry learning agility
Technologies
LLMs, retrieval systems, eval frameworks, SQL, AI coding agents
Responsibilities
Define the definition of correct and autonomy thresholds for the system, align engineering and underwriting teams on the autonomy roadmap, analyze eval data to debug model behavior and retrieval issues, prototype solutions using AI coding agents, translate underwriter workflows into system requirements
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC with strategic alignment