Build businesses across investment, operations, and engineering.
How we operate.
We maintain an execution-focused culture grounded in mutual respect and high standards. Leaders clear obstacles and provide complete backing, enabling teams to build, test, and refine operational systems directly. This steady environment gives skilled professionals the freedom to produce their highest quality work.
Who we're hiring.
Product, Design, and Engineering
The interface partners use every day, the pricing engine we built ourselves, and the data behind both. Teams of three to five people, TypeScript and Python, and a lot of mapping and document work. New York or Austin.
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Go to Market
Build relationships with the customers and partners our businesses serve. Work directly with underwriting, product, and operations to turn what you learn in the market into better service.
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Insurance Operations
Work with experienced insurance leaders on the details of each account, from evaluating risk to supporting policyholders. Your judgment matters, and you stay accountable for the decisions you make.
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Corporate Functions
Strategy, finance, and the work that keeps the whole group running. You will sit close to the decisions and do more than the title suggests.
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Product, Design, and Engineering
Go to Market
Insurance Operations
Corporate Functions
“I joined Etude to learn, to build something of consequence, and to be challenged in an environment where those opportunities are genuinely fostered.”
What to expect.
GROWTH
Responsibility early
You get autonomy and real responsibility in your first year, senior support to carry it, and a firm invested in your long-term success.
LEADERSHIP
Led by Experience
Executive decision-making stems from direct operational experience. Decisions are guided by a realistic understanding of project demands, ensuring fast alignment and clear expectations.
COLLEAGUES
A Culture of Candor
You will join teammates who bring deep dedication and intellectual honesty to their work. We encourage open discussion, value sharp judgment, and expect active contribution from day one.
What we hold each other to.
01
Accountability
Put one name on every commitment.
We make ambitious promises, keep ambitious promises.
We deliver bad news the day we learn it. No sugar coating.
02
Candor
Expect constructive disagreement.
We owe each other honest, specific feedback with the reasoning attached.
We disagree openly before the decision, then back it fully after.
03
Responsiveness & Speed
Speed is a form of respect and is core to our identity.
We answer inside one business day, even when the answer is "not yet; here's when."
When a deadline risks slipping we flag the moment we know, with a new date and a reason.
04
Maximizing Value
Value is quality divided by price. We never consider one variable in isolation.
Quality lives in the details. One cannot judge quality without understanding the specifics.
Most problems we face have been solved somewhere. We study the existing answers first, and spend original effort only where they fall short.
05
Curiosity
Obsess with what we don't know for sure.
Experiment first, then dig. Fast experiments beat over-planned designs.
We question our initial assumptions about customers, competitors, and the market.
Where we work.
Austin
804 Congress Avenue, Suite 400, Austin, TX 78701
The Bosche-Hogg Building, built in 1897 in the boom that followed the railroad. Six stories of brick on the avenue that runs up to the Capitol, in the Congress Avenue Historic District.
New York
80 West 40th Street, New York, NY 10018
Bryant Park Studios, built in 1901 by the painter Abraham Archibald Anderson, with tall north-facing windows so artists had steady light to work by. It was made for people building a craft. It still is.
Ready when you are.
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