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Account Executive, New Business

Harper · San Francisco · On-site

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About Harper

You make one call, we make the rest. Harper learns your business, works every market that can write it, and brings back the right coverage at the right price. Backed by Peak XV, Y Combinator and Antler.

About the role

You are the proof. AI now does most of the work of getting a business quoted and covered at Harper — but a human still closes, and that human is you. You sit at the exact line where the machine hands off to judgment: you take warmed, qualified small-business owners and turn them into customers, on the phone, at volume, all day.

What they're looking for

  • You've built a career closing SMB and you understand how small business owners think, decide, and buy — and you earn their trust fast
  • You're a closer first, with a real track record of closing at high velocity and high volume. 100+ calls a day is a rhythm you've lived, not a number that scares you
  • Your close rate doesn't fall apart when the volume doubles
  • You're comfortable being measured hard, in public, on revenue
  • You treat AI as leverage — using it to prep and qualify faster — and you have opinions about where it helps and where it gets in the way
  • You don't need insurance experience on day one. We'll teach you. You'll get licensed fast (we pay for it)
More about this role

Account Executive, New Business

Harper is an AI-native commercial insurance company in San Francisco. We're not bolting AI onto insurance — we're rebuilding the entire business as software, on a simple bet: turning expert human judgment into compute is one of the largest transitions left to make, and a trillion-dollar industry still run 90% by hand is the place to prove it. We've grown ~100x in the last year and we move at that speed — on-site, in person, long days, very high standards. Almost no one joins Harper for insurance ; they join to build the company that replaces how it works.

You are the proof. AI now does most of the work of getting a business quoted and covered at Harper — but a human still closes, and that human is you. You sit at the exact line where the machine hands off to judgment: you take warmed, qualified small-business owners and turn them into customers, on the phone, at volume, all day.

This is high-velocity SMB sales, not enterprise. Short cycles, fast decisions, no procurement committees. The number you move is revenue, and you move it by talking to a lot of people and closing a lot of them. As we get better at converting judgment into software, your job...

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