Harper
Commercial Insurance
Learning&KnowledgeSystemsLead
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“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.
Hunt edge cases; Root cause analysis
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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