Marketing Engineer, Brokerage Growth

Shepherd • San Francisco, CA

12d • $145,000 - $190,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

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, and brokers chase carriers through calls, emails, and resubmissions. Shepherd's AI performs underwriting workflows in seconds and integrates real-time data from construction technology partners to see risk as it actually exists. The company is pursuing fully autonomous underwriting, aiming for the first fully agentic submission in the industry. Shepherd is building faster decisions, smarter pricing, and better risk outcomes, serving as the risk infrastructure for the next generation of financial services.

Requirements

• 4+ years blending growth marketing, demand generation, and technical execution at a fast-moving B2B or consumer technology company.
• Extremely AI-pilled — you live in Cursor, Claude Code, or Codex. You are the first amongst your friends and coworkers to have a take on the latest LLM release.
• High agency and hands-on technically: you don’t wait for engineering support to ship a new tool or run a data analysis. You bias toward action, ship weekly, and do as well as you possibly can within what you’ve set out to do. You’re comfortable being the one who moves first and figures it out while others are still whiteboarding.
• You are all‑in on your craft. You don’t half‑build things; you hold yourself to outcomes and whole‑ass the system end to end so nothing gets in the way of hitting your goals.
• You like big, complex problems. As we scale, you expect the challenges to get more difficult: data gaps, messy funnels, attribution edge cases… and that excites you. You see new, bigger, harder problems as proof the system is working and leveling up.
• Experienced running growth programs at scale and building the attribution needed to prove impact.
• Comfortable turning rough ideas into usable content (scripts, looms, social clips, quick ad creative) and directing designers or video partners to get to final assets.

Nice To Haves

• Experience in insurtech, fintech, or vertical SaaS.
• Experience inside an AI-native company and a clear view of what “AI-native growth” looks like in practice.

Responsibilities

• Own paid media & ABM: Run paid programs end-to-end — audience strategy, channel mix, budgets, creative, testing, and performance with a heavy focus on ABM campaigns that turn broker activations into submissions.
• Build outbound and lifecycle infrastructure: Design and implement broker lifecycle journeys, signal-based triggers, intelligent sequences and plays, and all of the orchestration and wiring to get every broker the right touch at the right time and every Shepherd underwriter the intelligence and enablement they need to be in a position to win.
• Improve conversion across the funnel: Build and iterate on landing pages, forms, and website flows to convert traffic from paid, ABM, and organic channels; you’ll own experimentation and CRO.
• Stand up GEO / AI search: Implement structured data, schema markup, and entity infrastructure so Shepherd shows up where brokers and insureds search, including AI-native surfaces.
• Implement marketing automation & attribution: Select and wire the stack (MAP, enrichment, tracking), then build dashboards that clearly show what’s working, especially for paid and ABM programs.
• Produce performance creative: Turn ideas into performance assets — self-recorded explainers, lightweight product demos, landing pages, and ad creative — and pull in specialists when we need higher-end production.
• Increase experimentation velocity: Continuously test audiences, offers, creative, landing pages, and channels, and translate results into clear next steps for the business.

Benefits

• Premium Healthcare (100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision)
• Fertility benefits and family building support
• Unlimited PTO
• Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks
• SF, NYC, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and LA Offices
• Professional Development (Access to premium coaching, including leadership development)
• Competitive 401(k) Plan
• Dog-friendly office

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed