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Harper

harperinsure.com · Fintech · You make one call, we make the rest. Harper learns your business, works every market that can write it, and brings back the right coverage at the right price.

36open roles
3new in 30 days
1closed in 30 days
0remote-eligible
acceleratinghiring velocity

What they're building

AI-led commercial insurance distribution, which Harper's postings describe as a push toward 90%+ AI-led, including voice AI intake strong signal

Today: "Harper learns your business, works every market that can write it, and brings back the right coverage at the right price." (harperinsure.com)

Roles: Customer Service Operations Specialist · Forward Deployed Operations · Senior Commercial Broker, Brokerage Intelligence · Engineering Manager, Growth · Customer Intake Specialist

Requirements mention: AI evaluations · decision standards · AI agents · workflow automations · Voice AI systems · voice AI systems

Inference: Harper appears to be moving more intake, service and brokerage steps into AI systems, with people handling escalations and closing, based on the AI evaluation, agent and voice AI requirements.

Licensed sales capacity split into separate lanes: new business, renewals, post-sale service and partner-sourced deals, with SDRs feeding Account Executives strong signal

Today: "You make one call, we make the rest." (harperinsure.com)

Roles: Account Executive, New Business · Account Executive, Renewals · Account Executive, Service · Account Executive, Partnerships · Sales Development Representative, AI-Native

Requirements mention: commercial insurance producer license · direct closing conversations · manage a large book · high-velocity SMB sales · AE transfers

Inference: four Account Executive roles each list a producer license and cover a different stage of the customer relationship, which suggests Harper is organizing licensed sales by stage rather than adding generalist producers.

Partner and channel-sourced demand alongside direct sales, plus carrier access to place that business moderate signal

Today: "work every market that can write it" (harperinsure.com)

Roles: Head of Partnerships · Account Executive, Partnerships · Partnerships: New Verticals Associate · Carrier Partnerships Lead

Requirements mention: channel or reseller program design · embedded or API distribution · closed referral, channel, partnership, franchise, marketplace, or relationship-sourced business · carrier partnerships · appointments

Inference: Harper seems to be adding referral, channel and embedded sources of demand, while a separate carrier role secures the appointments and capacity to place that demand.

Opening new verticals, meaning new kinds of businesses to insure moderate signal

Today: "Our tech tells us which policy fits whatever you build, serve, store, or drive" (harperinsure.com)

Roles: GTM: New Verticals Lead · Partnerships: New Verticals Associate

Requirements mention: pressure-test the opportunity · regulated-industry · 0→1 experience · new markets

Inference: Harper seems to be testing which new kinds of businesses to insure, with dedicated roles for that work.

Paid, account-based and search demand generation moderate signal

Today: "Business insurance that works for you" (harperinsure.com site title)

Roles: Performance Marketing & Paid Acquisition Lead · ABM Lead · SEO/GEO Manager · Data Analyst

Requirements mention: Google Ads · trigger-based signals · GEO · funnel analysis · LTV/CAC modeling

Encoding underwriting and operating knowledge into systems that AI can use moderate signal

Today: "Deep industry expertise" (harperinsure.com site heading)

Roles: Senior Commercial Underwriter, Underwriting Intelligence · Learning & Knowledge Systems Lead · Operating Memory Lead

Requirements mention: commercial underwriting · knowledge engineering · structured prompting · evals on knowledge systems · knowledge management

Inference: Harper seems to be writing down underwriting and operating judgment in forms its AI systems can retrieve and apply, as these postings describe.

Where the headcount is going

DepartmentOpen
Operations14
Growth9
Marketing5
Engineering4
People3
Product1

37 open roles across six departments, with Operations (14) and Growth (9) the largest, 13 opened in the last 30 days and none closed, 36 of 37 in San Francisco, and a Recruiting Lead posting that describes taking the company from ~30 to 100+ people.

Who they need

Seniority: 10 mid, 10 senior, 8 junior, 4 manager, 1 director, 4 not stated.

Skills named most: CRM, commercial insurance producer license, Python, SQL, AI agents, Cursor, Claude Code, TypeScript, workflow automation, attribution, general liability, workers' comp

Locations: 36 roles in San Francisco and 1 in Atlanta (Customer Intake Specialist). No roles are listed as remote.

How to use this

If you're applying: Requirements differ by role. Four Account Executive roles list a commercial insurance producer license. The Customer Service Representative and Customer Intake Specialist roles list Spanish. The engineering roles list Python and TypeScript. Check those lines against your experience before applying. 36 of 37 roles are in San Francisco, one is in Atlanta, and none are remote.

If you're selling or recruiting: Operations (14) and Growth (9) are the largest departments and account for 11 of the 13 roles opened in the last 30 days, with none closed. The Recruiting Lead posting describes growing from ~30 to 100+ people, which is relevant to recruiting and HR vendors. Carrier and channel relationships sit with the Carrier Partnerships Lead and Head of Partnerships roles.

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Open roles (36)

TitleDepartmentLocationPosted
RecruiterPeopleSan Francisco2026-10-08
Account Executive, ServiceGrowthSan Francisco2026-09-24
Carrier Partnerships LeadOperationsSan Francisco2026-09-24
Senior Commercial Broker, Brokerage IntelligenceOperationsSan Francisco2026-09-24
Revenue Operations LeadOperationsSan Francisco2026-09-24
Customer Operations Specialist, PaymentsGrowthSan Francisco2026-09-24
Account Executive, RenewalsGrowthSan Francisco2026-09-24
Account Executive, PartnershipsGrowthSan Francisco2026-09-24
Customer Service Operations SpecialistOperationsSan Francisco2026-09-23
Customer Service RepresentativeOperationsSan Francisco2026-09-23
Partnerships: New Verticals AssociateOperationsSan Francisco2026-09-21
Field Marketing & Partnerships AssociateOperationsSan Francisco2026-09-21
Customer Service AssociateOperationsSan Francisco2026-09-10
Engineering Manager/TLM, PlatformEngineeringSan Francisco2026-08-31
Engineering Manager, GrowthEngineeringSan Francisco2026-08-31
Product EngineerEngineeringSan Francisco2026-07-24
Platform EngineerEngineeringSan Francisco2026-07-24
Account Executive, New BusinessGrowthSan Francisco2026-07-08
Data AnalystMarketingSan Francisco2026-06-22
Content CoordinationMarketingSan Francisco2026-06-22
SEO/GEO ManagerMarketingSan Francisco2026-06-22
ABM LeadMarketingSan Francisco2026-06-22
Forward Deployed OperationsOperationsSan Francisco2026-06-19
Head of PartnershipsGrowthSan Francisco2026-06-08
GTM: New Verticals LeadOperationsSan Francisco2026-06-05
Senior Commercial Underwriter, Underwriting IntelligenceOperationsSan Francisco2026-06-02
Learning & Knowledge Systems LeadPeopleSan Francisco2026-06-02
Operating Memory LeadOperationsSan Francisco2026-05-28
Product ManagerProductSan Francisco2026-05-26
Performance Marketing & Paid Acquisition LeadMarketingSan Francisco2026-05-14
Sales Development Representative, AI-NativeGrowthSan Francisco2026-05-08
Business Operations AssociateOperationsSan Francisco2026-04-30
Customer Intake SpecialistGrowthAtlanta2026-02-23
Special Projects LeadOperationsSan Francisco2026-01-22
Recruiting LeadPeopleSan Francisco2026-01-14
Future AI FounderGrowthSan Francisco2026-01-07