Careers

Software Engineer

We are looking for a superstar Software Engineer to join the team building our groundbreaking online financial products and services for managing weather risk. Candidates will use their strong engineering/analytical skills and personal drive to further innovate and maintain leadership in our new and fast-growing industry.

Your Qualifications:

• Ambitious, driven, and talented individual who wants to work on challenging and potentially world-changing problems
• Team player who feels at home in an open and flat-structured environment, and takes pride in a job well done Strong all-round engineer who writes well-structured, easily maintainable, well-documented code
• At least two years of experience developing with Ruby, Python or Java
• Motivated to try new languages and technologies to solve hard problems (Scala, Clojure, Hadoop, etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Ruby on Rails, RSpec, RESTful architectures and other server technologies
• Comfortable using Git for version control
• Proficient in a Unix/Linux environment
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, etc.) preferred
• Familiarity with financial concepts preferred
• BA/BS in Computer Science or related technical field from good university with high GPA; Masters preferred

What You'd Do:

• Architect, build, and test new WeatherBill products and services
• Develop and expand infrastructure to process high volume financial transactions and run fault-tolerant compute-intensive mathematics applications
• Tackle a wide variety of engineering problems as needed - we are a small team and we all share roles
• Brainstorm with the team and prototype new concepts and ideas rapidly

What We Offer:

• A driven, motivated, and talented team that believes in working hard and playing hard
• Energetic, idea-driven and transparent work environment
• Exciting world-changing opportunity - we are striving to do something very big about something that affects everyone
• Award-winning South of Market office across the street from South Park
• Competitive salary and great benefits

GM/VP, Agriculture

WeatherBill seeks a GM/VP, Agriculture. This executive leader will play a key role in setting strategy and executing the sales and channel plans in order to achieve specific business unit goals.  The position requires intensive interaction with appointed and prospective channel partners, primarily crop insurance agencies.

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned executive with a proven track record of sales management experience in a channel-oriented Agriculture products organization, preferably crop insurance.

This role represents a rare opportunity for a senior leader to play a significant role in a high-growth early-stage company.  The position offers significant responsibility and financial upside.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Determine sales strategy and resource allocation to realize company objectives
• Drive sales growth by setting specific business unit targets, measuring progress and holding team accountable to results
• Establish overall channel account growth strategy and establish key initiatives to maximize partner engagement and sell-through
• Recruit, hire, and manage expanding agriculture sales team members. Management includes establishing productivity metrics, quota setting and territory management
• Work closely with WeatherBill Product and Marketing functions to develop product roadmap, channel training programs, and communications activities across all strategic channels
• Deliver market/client data to Marketing to facilitate product development based on market demand and client direction
• Communicate and reinforce sales compensation incentive plan and provide input to ensure incentives are aligned with company goals 

Skills

• 10 or more years experience in senior sales leadership positions in a channel sales oriented Agriculture products company, preferably crop insurance
• Extensive knowledge of production agriculture
• Experience leading and developing sales teams
• Strong selling, relationship and consultation skills
• Strong understanding of sales processes and methodologies, territory design, quota management and sales compensation
• Solid understanding of the principles of risk management
• An understanding of agricultural price risk management would be helpful
• Ideally, extensive experience managing insurance agency relationships and developing agency partner programs 
• Ideally, an understanding of insurance law and regulatory compliance requirements
• Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills
• Bachelor’s Degree required; Master’s Degree preferred

What We Offer:

• Driven, motivated, and talented team that believes in working hard and playing hard
• Energetic, idea-driven and transparent work environment
• Exciting world-changing opportunity - we are striving to do something very big about something that affects everyone 
• Competitive salary and great benefits, including excellent equity packages

Mathematical Climatologist - climatology experience not required -

WeatherBill's Math Team is looking for a mathematician to join their team to help tackle a variety of interesting problems including the development of probabilistic climate models, application of statistical techniques to improve short range weather forecasts, pricing of unique financial instruments and much more.

You:

• Enjoy thinking outside the bell-curve
• Have experience with numerical software such as R, Matlab, Mathematica
• Thought (even briefly) that you had a shot at the Netflix Prize
• Earned an advanced degree from a reputable university
• Believe names such as Cholesky, Markov and Kolmogorov are commonplace

Pluses:

• Mastery of a programming language such as Python, Java, or Ruby
• Experience managing a small team

Weatherbill's Math Team knows what SVD and SVM stand for. When you say decomposition they think matrices not dirt, and, given a chance to play 'Let's Make a Deal', would always switch their choice of doors.

If you think you might fit in with this team then please apply and provide the answer to the following problem in your cover letter:

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We look forward to hearing from you! 

Field Representative, Weather-Peril Crop Insurance

WeatherBill seeks Regional Sales Executives in IL, IN, IA, MN, MO, NE, ND and WI. These statewide/regional positions will play a lead role in recruiting crop insurance agents and generating premium from the sale of WeatherBill's innovative and unique weather insurance products.  The position requires intensive interaction with appointed and prospective channel partners, primarily crop insurance agencies.

The ideal candidate will be a seasoned sales executive with a proven track record of sales management experience in a channel-oriented Agriculture products organization, preferably crop insurance.

The position offers significant responsibility and financial upside.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Drive premium growth, meeting agency recruitment, training and sales metrics, in assigned territory.
• Help to plan and direct new products and programs.
• Main point of contact for agent questions, training and education.
• Develop new business by engaging new agents.
• Required travel up to 75% including overnight stays.
• Conduct sales presentations to agents in small or large forums on WeatherBill products.

Skills

• 5 or more years experience in sales positions in a channel sales orientedAgriculture products company, preferably crop insurance.
• Extensive knowledge of production agriculture.
• Strong selling, relationship and consultation skills.
• Solid understanding of the principles of risk management.
• Exceptional interpersonal, verbal, written, and presentation skills.
• Ideally, extensive experience managing insurance agency relationships and developing agency partner programs.
• Ideally, licensed property and casualty insurance agent in your respective market(s).
• Ideally, well-connected with a solid rolodex of crop insurance agents in your respective market(s).
• Strong computer and internet knowledge.  Experience with CRM systems such as Salesforce a plus.
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred, preferably in Business or an Agricultural Sciences discipline.

What We Offer:

• Driven, motivated, and talented team
• Energetic, idea-driven and transparent work environment
• Exciting world-changing opportunity - we are creating a new category of Named Peril products in the agricultural risk management market
• Competitive salary and great benefits, including excellent equity packages