Harper
Insurance
ProductManager
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“Product Manager at Harper. Skills: Product Ownership, AI Systems, Domain Expertise. Own the KPIs. Encode the nuance”
What You'll Achieve.
Move the metric; Own a module; Encode the nuance into AI; Move the metric; Own the next module; Own the KPIs — Conversion, handle time, accuracy, autonomous resolution rate, retention; Set the targets, instrument them, move them; Build the golden datasets your module's models need; Define what 'right' looks like; Decide where each modality wins, where they hand off, and how the on-ramps feel; Find the 3 that move the KPI and ignore the rest with conviction; Ship behavior into a probabilistic system; Cut handle time 40%; Tie what you build to a number; Go sit with the underwriting team for a week and come back with the 5 things that matter; Own a thing, not coordinate a thing; Move a number
Industry & Context.
Encode the nuance into AI; Find what's broken before they tell you
Monday–Friday, 5 AM – 8 PM. The hours are long.
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
1–3 years into product, OR an early-career operator, engineer, or AI researcher who's been doing the work without the title, Demonstrated ownership of a product or system end-to-end—KPIs, roadmap, execution, Proficiency using AI tools to prototype (Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, or similar), analytical instincts—you can argue tradeoffs with engineers on AI systems, Track record of going deep on a domain and encoding what you learned into a system, Based in San Francisco or willing to relocate
Nice to Have
Background in AI/ML products, voice AI, agent frameworks, or workflow automation, Experience with eval design, prompt engineering, or context engineering, Insurance, fintech, or regulated industry experience, Prior startup experience
What You'll Do.
Build the data flywheel
Own the cross-modal experience
Talk to customers every day
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work hand-in-glove with data labeling and validation; Sit with sales, service, underwriting; Watch the work; Find what's broken before they tell you; Work alongside founders and engineers
Process & Methodology
Roadmap
Full Job Description
THE PROBLEM 36 million businesses in America need insurance—it's not optional. 77% are underinsured. 40% have no coverage at all. The distribution system failed them: too slow, too opaque, too confusing. Over 90% of commercial insurance is still human-led. We're building the inverse: 90%+ AI-led, pushing toward the higher 90s. Not by patching legacy workflows—by building AI that makes humans more effective, improves the customer experience, and eliminates friction at every step. We're adding ~1,000 customers per month. We've grown 100x since last year. We're looking to do even more this year—and that's why we're hiring. You'll own a module. Encode the nuance into AI. Move the metric. Then go own the next. THE THESIS Every industry with human-bounded distribution consolidates rapidly once someone makes it computational. Search before Google. Ride-hailing before Uber. When distribution becomes computational, Jevons Paradox kicks in: efficiency leads to expansion. When getting the right coverage becomes fast and frictionless, the 77% of underinsured businesses will finally get properly protected. The companies that win this transition won't just have great AI. They'll have figured out how to organize themselves around it—how knowledge gets encoded into systems queryable by agents and operators. The organization is the moat. We're at the forefront of figuring out what an AI-native company looks like, and this role sits inside that question. Harper isn't an AI tool sold to brokers. We are the broker. We do the work end-to-end and sell the outcome: small businesses get the right coverage, fast, at the right price, with the right service. Same-day quotes, instant certificates, real answers, 24/7. Owning both sides is the moat. THE ROLE Harper operates like a factory with a series of modules spanning the full lifecycle from intake through renewals. Across them we run a stack of internal AI systems covering operator guidance, the operational backbone that matches risks to un
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