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Head of Partnerships

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

Harper turns small-business owners into covered customers at volume, with AI doing the heavy lifting behind the human who closes. We've grown ~100x in a year. The constraint isn't demand. It's getting in front of the right business at the moment buying insurance stops being optional. That's where this role lives.

What they're looking for

  • You think in distribution, not logos
  • You're a player-coach: you'll close deals this quarter and build the team next year
  • You're rigorous about attribution and unit economics, including thin-margin, high-volume models
  • You move cross-functional work across product, legal, compliance, and ops without owning those teams
  • You treat regulation as a design problem, not a blocker
  • You learn a new domain fast and use AI as real leverage
More about this role

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.

Harper turns small-business owners into covered customers at volume, with AI doing the heavy lifting behind the human who closes. We've grown ~100x in a year. The constraint isn't demand. It's getting in front of the right business at the moment buying insurance stops being optional. That's where this role lives.

You'll build distribution at forcing mechanisms: the regulators, lenders, landlords, franchisors, and trusted advisors who make coverage non-optional for a business. Whoever owns that moment owns the highest-intent customer in the market, and your job is to plug Harper into them and turn each one into a channel that...

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