Growth Lead

About the role

Commercial insurance, especially the retail brokerage channel (which is our distribution channel) is a digitally underdeveloped market. The standard B2B growth stack (SEO/SEM, ABM, email marketing, paid ads, funnels, retargeting, intent signals, AI-search visibility…) is not something our audiences are used to seeing, which makes it a huge opportunity for us to take advantage of. Our growth motion should look like an AI company’s growth motion: technical, measured, compounding, and far more productive than a traditional marketing team. This role is how we prove that thesis in a market where what has become the standard growth stack barely exists today.

What You’ll Do

• 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.

Who You Are

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

How we work

Shepherd runs on four values. Here's what each one means in this seat.

• Think big, build big. We exist to protect progress and the industries that rely on it. The work here is aimed at a system that runs on its own, and the roadmap gets sequenced backward from that rather than forward from what's easy.
• Win together. We rise as one. We support each other, raise the bar, and celebrate collective success. As the first PM you set a standard the rest of the team inherits, and the milestones belong to the team rather than to product.
• Cross the aisle. Collaboration wins. We listen deeply, work across boundaries, and prioritize shared success over individual lanes. The best product calls here come from engineers who've sat with underwriters and underwriters who understand where the model breaks, and much of this job is listening closely enough on both sides to make that happen.
• Go get it. We act with urgency, move with confidence, take smart risks, and push forward with intention. Nobody hands you the roadmap, the data, or the meeting invite. You pull the failing runs, book the time with the underwriters, and decide what matters.

Benefits

• Premium Healthcare: 100% contribution to top-tier health, dental, and vision
• Fertility benefits and family building support
• Unlimited PTO: Flexibility to take the time off, recharge, and perform
• Daily lunches, dinners, and snacks: We work together, and enjoy meals together too
• Offices: SF, NYC, Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago and LA
• Professional Development: Access to premium coaching, including leadership development
• 401(k) Plan
• Dog-friendly office: Plenty of dogs to play with and make friends with in the SF office

Compensation

$145K – $190K