Wholesale Underwriting Leader, E&S Growth

Shepherd; San Francisco (CA); Presencial; USD 350 000 - 425 000; Tempo integral

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Premium Healthcare

Fertility benefits and family building

Unlimited PTO

Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks

Office locations in SF, NYC, Dallas–Ft

Professional Development

Competitive 401(k) Plan

Dog-friendly office

Resumo da oferta

Shepherd is building a fast, AI-native commercial risk platform and expanding its wholesale distribution. We seeks a Head of Wholesale Underwriting to define strategy, hire leaders, and secure capacity behind a new wholesale brand across multiple products and verticals.

You will set the wholesale distribution strategy, recruit product line leaders, and partner with underwriting, data, and engineering to create a frictionless submission-to-bind workflow.

Qualificações

• 12+ years in wholesale and E&S P&C with leadership roles at a carrier, MGA/MGU, or wholesale underwriting organization.
• Proven record of building or scaling a wholesale business with P&L ownership for premium, profit, and loss-ratio results.
• Deep relationships with national and regional wholesale brokerage teams that can drive submission flow from day one.
• Strong command of how E&S and wholesale channel dynamics work, including surplus lines regulation and compliance, broker agreements, and open binding authority models.
• Experience leading, mentoring, or managing underwriters, including setting authority and running audits.
• Executive presence to present strategy and results to leadership, capacity partners, and reinsurers.
• Comfort with ambiguity: make sound decisions with incomplete information as the business evolves.
• Willingness to travel about 25% to meet brokers, partners, and the team.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience; background in construction accounting, finance, or law is a plus.

Responsabilidades

• Launch Shepherd's new wholesale business and brand.
• Define the wholesale strategy, including target products and classes, E&S appetite, broker partners, and growth and loss-ratio targets by line of business.
• Work with Underwriting leadership to establish wholesale-exclusive classes and design new E&S products where the opportunity is greatest.
• Hire product underwriting leaders and support the development of underwriting guidelines, authority frameworks, referral rules, rating approach, and forms for the wholesale/E&S lines.
• Structure a focused distribution strategy with wholesale broker partners by product line, onboarding brokers and building Shepherd's reputation as a go-to market for wholesale brokers.
• Work with capacity and reinsurance partners to secure and structure the E&S paper behind the program and keep partners informed on results.
• Partner with Product, Engineering, and Data to design a wholesale submission-to-bind workflow for a frictionless experience for wholesale partners per product.
• Own premium, profit, loss-ratio, retention, and expense results for the wholesale business.
• Hire, coach, and grow a team of wholesale product line leaders, underwriters, distribution leaders, and support staff as the business scales.
• Work with Corporate Underwriting to set letters of authority, run underwriting audits, and coach from the results.
• Work with Claims, Actuarial, Customer Experience and Finance so the business is underwritten, serviced, and reported well.

Conhecimentos

Wholesale expertise

Broker relationships

Leadership experience

Underwriting leadership

Executive presence

Ambiguity tolerance

Travel readiness

Bachelor's degree

Formação académica

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Background in construction accounting/finance/law preferred

Descrição da oferta de emprego

Shepherd is building a fast, AI-native commercial risk platform and expanding its wholesale distribution. We seeks a Head of Wholesale Underwriting to define strategy, hire leaders, and secure capacity behind a new wholesale brand across multiple products and verticals.

You will set the wholesale distribution strategy, recruit product line leaders, and partner with underwriting, data, and engineering to create a frictionless submission-to-bind workflow.