Harper

Commercial Insurance

Learning&KnowledgeSystemsLead

$110–170k San Francisco, California, United States FULL TIME
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HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Learning & Knowledge Systems Lead at Harper. Skills: Knowledge engineering, AI-native, Information architecture, Operational execution. Embed with sales. Embed with intake”

What You'll Achieve.

Turn judgment into knowledge; Get company running against it; Remove knowledge bottleneck; Make docs stay alive; Write down edge cases before they bite; Make plan run; Get new hire into harness within a week; Make activity visible; Produce useful artifacts from meetings; Turn problems into solutions

Industry & Context.

Commercial Insurance
Problems you'll solve

Hunt edge cases; Root cause analysis

Eligibility Requirements

On-site in San Francisco, Long days, High standards, In-office hours

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

3–8 years in a relevant field, Exceptional written communication, Information-architecture instincts, Real AI-tool fluency, Demonstrated ability to interview stakeholders, Extract operational detail, Turn messy conversations into clear decisions, Turn messy conversations into source-of-truth docs, Track record of running an adoption rollout, Comfort in a fast-moving startup, Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate

Nice to Have

Experience at an AI-native company, Dev-tools authoring Claude/agent skills, RAG/search systems experience, Data labeling experience, Evals on knowledge systems, Human-in-the-loop working with engineering, Living-doc refresh experience, Translating operator feedback into product taxonomy, Translating operator feedback into metadata, Translating operator feedback into content, Insurance experience, Fintech experience, B2B services experience, High-volume operational environment experience

What You'll Do.

Embed with placements

Document what people know

Turn transcripts into docs

Turn Slack threads into docs

Turn explanations into docs

Create source-of-truth docs

Create system-boundary docs

Graduate rules into skills

Partner with engineering on automations

Write down edge cases

Distill AI playbooks into plans

Build onboarding paths

Make activity visible

Produce useful artifacts

Turn problems into playbooks

Turn problems into QA checks

Turn problems into skills

Turn problems into product requirements

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Operations; Engineering; RevOps; Product; Engineering

Communication Scope

Exceptional writer; Synthesizer; Clear operating doc; Executable plan; Useful artifacts

Process & Methodology

Rollout cadence, Rollout date

Full Job Description

LEARNING & KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS LEAD Harper is an AI-native commercial insurance company in San Francisco. We're not bolting AI onto insurance — we're rebuilding the entire business as software, on a simple bet: turning expert human judgment into compute is one of the largest transitions left to make, and a trillion-dollar industry still run 90% by hand is the place to prove it. We've grown ~100x in the last year and we move at that speed — on-site, in person, long days, very high standards. Almost no one joins Harper for insurance; they join to build the company that replaces how it works. THE ROLE IN ONE LINE You turn the judgment locked inside Harper's best operators into AI-legible knowledge — living docs, decision logs, and retrievable skills the agents can actually call — and you get the rest of the company running against it. WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS NOW AI doesn't understand a company by default. It works only when the business is documented clearly enough for a system to retrieve the right context, recognize the workflow, handle the edge case, and escalate when human judgment is required. Right now most of how Harper operates lives in people's heads: how a top rep sequences quotes, how service handles the weird bind, how market routing actually works, what a customer means when they push back. That holds at small scale. It breaks at ~1,000 new customers a month. Every undocumented process is a future failure mode; every AI-generated playbook that dies in a chat thread is throughput left on the floor. The next bottleneck here isn't engineering. It's knowledge — and how fast people can absorb it. This role removes that bottleneck. Be clear about what this is not. This is not corporate L&D. No LMS, no slide decks, no e-learning project, no making-the-Notion-pretty. This is knowledge engineering: sit with operators, extract how they actually think, and turn it into structured knowledge a human and a model can use. WHAT YOU'LL DO Two tracks, running in parallel, at the

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