Specialty insurance platform for collector vehicles, motorcycles, and motorsports
Hagerty insures niche vehicle categories—collector cars, classic motorcycles, boats, and motorsports—where standard auto insurers don't compete. The tech stack reveals a data-driven, analytics-heavy operation: Python, R, scikit-learn, XGBoost, and PyTorch sit alongside Snowflake and Airflow, indicating active machine-learning work on underwriting, fraud detection, and partner segmentation. The project list (auction treasury operations, product launch across states, agency performance dashboards, fraud mitigation) and pain-point focus on automation, data gaps, and modernizing legacy systems suggest Hagerty is scaling horizontally—adding new product lines and geographies while wrestling with operational complexity typical of a public insurer managing distributed agency networks.
Hagerty is a public insurance company headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan, serving enthusiast drivers with policies for collector vehicles, classic motorcycles, motorsports, and specialty boats. Founded in 1983, the company operates across the United States and France, with 1,001–5,000 employees. Beyond underwriting, Hagerty operates an online auction marketplace and a media brand (Hagerty Magazine). Current operational priorities include launching and scaling new insurance products across state jurisdictions, improving agency and partner performance tracking, automating treasury and claims workflows, and addressing fraud-mitigation and data-quality challenges at scale.
Hagerty's stack centers on Python, R, SQL, Snowflake, and Apache Airflow for data work; Salesforce for CRM; ServiceNow for ITSM; Tableau and Power BI for analytics; and AWS/Azure for cloud infrastructure. Machine learning libraries include scikit-learn, XGBoost, and PyTorch.
Hagerty is headquartered in Traverse City, Michigan. The company is publicly traded and currently hiring in the United States and France.
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