The Business Builder Program
Guardian Service has rocketed from launch to $50M in premium—and the next chapter is even bigger. We believe we can grow another 3–4× over the next 18 months while launching multiple new product lines. We’re building the next generation of leaders to take us there.
The Business Builder Program is your opportunity to grow with that momentum—through meaningful ownership, hands-on business experience, and intentional leadership development.
Explore the program
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Take ownership of priorities that matter to Guardian Service’s growth. Over approximately two years, gain experience across the business through work shaped by your talents, interests, development, and business needs.
Designed for early-career professionals from banking, consulting, or operating roles in growing businesses who bring strong analytical ability, initiative, and a desire to build.
THE PEOPLE. THE EXPERIENCE.
Build relationships with talented peers, learn from experienced leaders, and share ideas as you take on meaningful work. Mentorship, shared learning, and time together create a community that grows with you.
THE BUSINESS BUILDER PROGRAM
Career progression, ownership of business results, and structured leadership development.
Prepare for broader operating and leadership responsibility through hands-on ownership and experience across the business.
See our track record →02From strategy to growth, own the outcomes of an AI-driven product.
Explore the work and the impact →03Grow through mentorship, shared learning, and relationships with talented peers and experienced leaders.
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A track record of building leaders.
Guardian Service is backed by Three Ships, which builds and operates businesses across insurance, home services, and consumer products. Across Three Ships, talented people have taken on meaningful ownership and grown into business leaders. Their stories show how hands-on experience can open the door to broader responsibility.
Chief Operating Officer
Associate at PE Firm → Chief Operating Officer
John joined Three Ships at age 27 in 2018 after working in private equity and was promoted to COO of our Home Solutions business in 2021. He helped lead the business through three consecutive years of 100% year-over-year growth and now oversees its demand generation teams.
From strategy to growth, own the outcomes of an AI-driven product.
Turn business priorities into products, tools, and better ways of working. Partner with a functional leader to define the opportunity, use AI to build and test solutions, and take responsibility for the results. Your work could include:
Use AI where it helps you analyze information or improve a process. You’ll own the work and measure what changes.
Director of Strategy & Operations
“Working with our sales team, I redesigned training, reporting, and quoting tools to help agents sell more efficiently as we doubled the team. I also built a Texas sales playbook tailored to the local market, helping lift conversion by more than 20% in a single month.”
Chief Innovation Officer
“Using AI, I took a new insurance product from idea to live in just 45 days. I built the ads, landing page, and customer signup experience, connected it to our quoting system, and tested whether we could win customers profitably.”
Regular feedback, mentorship, and learning.
Develop as a builder and operator through regular feedback, structured mentorship, and shared learning with your peers.
A manager check-in to review decisions, unblock execution, and connect the work to your development goals.
Meet with a leader outside your reporting line to discuss challenges, decisions, and development.
Spend time with your cohort outside day-to-day work.
Hear from people outside Guardian Service and discuss what you can apply to your work.
A cohort retreat away from the office, devoted to reflection, personal development, and learning from one another.
Share progress and learn about each other’s work across the business.
WHAT COMES NEXT
Build a career that opens doors. The experience you gain here can prepare you to lead an established team, build something new, or take a differentiated next step.
Grow into leading a function or team at Guardian Service—owning performance, making decisions, and helping the business scale.
Take a new product or business initiative from idea to launch at Guardian Service—find the opportunity, build the solution, and turn it into a business that works.
You’ll build a track record of solving problems, launching ideas, and delivering results.Whether you grow at Guardian Service, pursue an MBA, or explore a future role, you’ll bring firsthand experience building a business.
A new kind of insurance business.
Never shop for insurance again.
Guardian Service combines AI, real choice, and personal service to find the right coverage—and keep finding it.
50+ carriers. Personalized recommendations. The right coverage at the best price.
AI-powered recommendations, backed by experienced agents who know their members.
Automatic annual re-shopping and proactive savings alerts, year after year.
THE OPPORTUNITY AHEAD
Business growth and new product lines create opportunities for operating leaders.
Growth in monthly new premiumover 15 months
Net premium retentionat renewal
Member satisfactionNet Promoter Score
THE NEXT CHAPTER
Our premium ambition for 2028.
THE MOMENTUM WE’RE BUILDING ON
OUR TEAM
Learn from the people leading Guardian Service across strategy, technology, growth, and the member experience.
Chief Executive Officer
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Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Growth Officer
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Chief Marketing Officer
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Chief Technology Officer
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Chief People Officer
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Chief Innovation Officer
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THE BUSINESS BUILDER PROGRAM
Own meaningful work, learn directly from experienced leaders, and grow alongside a cohort of ambitious peers. Explore what you could build at Guardian Service.
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