You’ll be supporting the Nova Team
Nova is the team building fully autonomous underwriting. A broker wants coverage for a construction project and emails us a pile of documents: an application, years of claims history, a spreadsheet of what’s being built and what it costs, payroll records, prior policies, and a note with the real context buried in the third paragraph. No two brokers send the same thing. An underwriter reads all of it, pulls out a few hundred facts, judges how risky the project is, and prices it. Nova does that work end to end, with agents that read the documents, extract and reconcile the facts, chase down what’s missing, and hand back a priced account.
We structure the roadmap as an autonomy ladder borrowed from self-driving. L1 is a human doing the job with assistance. L5 is an email arriving and a priced policy coming out with nobody in between. We’re in the middle, and progress means expanding the set of accounts the system handles unsupervised.
The business case is straightforward: our long term vision has a single underwriter overseeing roughly 10x the accounts they handle today, with the system doing intake, analysis, and pricing while the person sets strategy and works exceptions. Getting there is largely a measurement challenge. An account only counts as autonomous if everything on it is right, which makes this a compounding problem rather than an average one, and much of the roadmap comes down to how we define and measure that.
We’re looking for an exceptional, entrepreneurial technical product manager to own the roadmap, execution, discovery, and vision for Nova, and to help define what autonomous underwriting looks like for the whole industry.
This is Nova’s first product hire. The team is small, extremely high caliber, and growing. The engineers here have taken autonomous underwriting from an idea to real prices on real accounts, making the product calls themselves along the way. You’d be joining people who know this problem cold and who will expect you to get there fast.
This role sits alongside leadership and at the intersection of three domain expertises: engineers who think in eval runs and retrieval quality, underwriters with decades of pricing judgment, and leadership setting the direction of the business. One day you’re aligning with our CTO on the autonomy roadmap and pressure-testing the thesis with the leadership team; the next you’re pairing with an engineer on a new extraction flow and putting a working version in front of an underwriter before the day ends. Each group holds part of the answer, the best ideas come out of the overlap, and you’ll be the person who creates it. If you want to build a category-defining product with real executive air cover and no ceiling on your impact, this is the seat.
The person who does well here is closer to a founder than to a traditional PM. This is an environment for people who need intellectual challenge, thrive in progress, and are motivated by the impact of their work.