Shepherd
Product Designer
Shepherd, San Francisco, California, United States, 94199
About Shepherd
Our mission is to create the first comprehensive platform that combines top-tier insurance offerings with world-class software so commercial businesses can manage risk and prevent losses. We're starting with the $10T commercial construction industry.
Our thesis is that technology can solve the sustainability challenges facing commercial insurance, and to accomplish this we're building a platform that incentivizes our clients to adopt the best tools when they buy our coverage. Across construction and other commercial markets, technology is available but fundamentally underutilized, despite the potential for improving loss outcomes and stopping this crisis.
To date, Shepherd has raised $20M+ from top tier VCs including Y-Combinator, Susa Ventures, Spark Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Era Ventures, Greenlight RE and Intact Ventures.
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 founding 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:Own all of design at Shepherd, shaping our design language, branding, user experience and moreCreate a design process and review process with engineeringWork closely with the Cofounder/CTO and Head of Product on ideationWork closely with customers to understand their needs and design mocks and/or prototypes to collect feedbackWork closely with engineering to make sure we're building products that are easy to use and intuitiveYou would be our dream candidate if....
5+ years of experience, preferably at a SaaS companyExperience shipping at least one full product or a significant feature as the lead designerExperience iterating with engineers and other team members on both visual and UX designs to get the experience and details just rightGreat presentation, collaboration and communication skillsFluency in Figma and prototyping toolsUnderstanding of the technical limitations and workflow for building web interfacesHere's a glimpse into our interview process:
You'll speak with a Shepherd RecruiterYou'll speak with our CTO and Cofounder, MoYou'll speak with Team MembersYou'll come on-site to our SF HQ and meet the team
The salary range for this role is $135,000 to $167,000 for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range(s) listed is just one component of Shepherd's total compensation package for employees. Other benefits include stock options, an unlimited paid time off policy, and 100% coverage on medical, vision and dental insurance.
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BenefitsPremium Healthcare100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision
Unlimited PTOFlexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform
SF, NYC, or NJ OfficesPremium office spaces on both coasts with daily lunches provided
Professional DevelopmentAccess to premium coaching including leadership development
401(k) PlanCompetitive 401(k) plan offered
Our mission is to create the first comprehensive platform that combines top-tier insurance offerings with world-class software so commercial businesses can manage risk and prevent losses. We're starting with the $10T commercial construction industry.
Our thesis is that technology can solve the sustainability challenges facing commercial insurance, and to accomplish this we're building a platform that incentivizes our clients to adopt the best tools when they buy our coverage. Across construction and other commercial markets, technology is available but fundamentally underutilized, despite the potential for improving loss outcomes and stopping this crisis.
To date, Shepherd has raised $20M+ from top tier VCs including Y-Combinator, Susa Ventures, Spark Capital, Costanoa Ventures, Era Ventures, Greenlight RE and Intact Ventures.
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 founding 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:Own all of design at Shepherd, shaping our design language, branding, user experience and moreCreate a design process and review process with engineeringWork closely with the Cofounder/CTO and Head of Product on ideationWork closely with customers to understand their needs and design mocks and/or prototypes to collect feedbackWork closely with engineering to make sure we're building products that are easy to use and intuitiveYou would be our dream candidate if....
5+ years of experience, preferably at a SaaS companyExperience shipping at least one full product or a significant feature as the lead designerExperience iterating with engineers and other team members on both visual and UX designs to get the experience and details just rightGreat presentation, collaboration and communication skillsFluency in Figma and prototyping toolsUnderstanding of the technical limitations and workflow for building web interfacesHere's a glimpse into our interview process:
You'll speak with a Shepherd RecruiterYou'll speak with our CTO and Cofounder, MoYou'll speak with Team MembersYou'll come on-site to our SF HQ and meet the team
The salary range for this role is $135,000 to $167,000 for this position. Actual salaries will vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range(s) listed is just one component of Shepherd's total compensation package for employees. Other benefits include stock options, an unlimited paid time off policy, and 100% coverage on medical, vision and dental insurance.
#LI-Onsite
BenefitsPremium Healthcare100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision
Unlimited PTOFlexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform
SF, NYC, or NJ OfficesPremium office spaces on both coasts with daily lunches provided
Professional DevelopmentAccess to premium coaching including leadership development
401(k) PlanCompetitive 401(k) plan offered