Direct-to-consumer pet insurance with urgent-care payment upfront
Pumpkin sells accident and illness coverage for pets direct to consumers, with a distinctive model: urgent-pay service that covers treatment costs before the customer pays the vet. The hiring mix is sales-heavy (5 of 10 open roles) paired with aggressive marketing automation work (email, SMS channel launches, lifecycle strategy, paid social) — signaling a shift from product-market fit into customer acquisition and retention at scale. Tech stack is lean (Salesforce, Zendesk, Kustomer) and marketing-forward, with active projects clustered around funnel optimization and hospital partnerships.
Pumpkin is a direct-to-consumer pet insurance company based in New York offering accident, illness, and preventive wellness coverage. The core product differentiator is an urgent-pay service that allows customers to access coverage in real time before settling claims. Pumpkin operates a 51–200-person team across the United States and Canada, with active hiring in sales and marketing roles. Current operational priorities include onboarding veterinary hospital partners, optimizing the enrollment and quote-to-purchase funnels, and scaling customer acquisition through paid social and lifecycle marketing channels.
Pumpkin offers pet accident, illness, and preventive wellness insurance direct to consumers. The core feature is an urgent-pay service that covers vet treatment costs upfront, before the customer pays out-of-pocket.
Core stack: Salesforce (CRM), Zendesk and Kustomer (customer support). Marketing channels: Figma (design), LinkedIn, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Meta, and Wix (web presence).
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