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Founding Account Executive

Hedge · San Francisco - In Office · On-site

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About Hedge

Hedge is a wholesale specialty insurance brokerage serving licensed retail agents and brokers with public appetite, form, and submission resources. Backed by Y Combinator.

About the role

Hedge is hiring a founding Account Executive to own the full commercial cycle from qualified agency conversation through bound premium and expansion. This is a high-accountability role with unusually high upside for someone who can turn trust, discipline, and insurance fluency into revenue.

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Hedge is hiring a founding Account Executive to own the full commercial cycle from qualified agency conversation through bound premium and expansion. This is a high-accountability role with unusually high upside for someone who can turn trust, discipline, and insurance fluency into revenue.

Target OTE is $500K. Base salary is $110K-$150K, creating a target cash range of $460K-$500K across the base range. Target variable compensation is $350K at $5M in annual bound premium, with uncapped accelerators above target. Equity is 0.50% at hire, with up to an additional 0.25% performance grant.

Run discovery, demonstrations, commercial conversations, and close plans with insurance agencies

Build multithreaded relationships with agency owners, producers, and operations leaders

Convert opportunities into submissions, bound premium, and retained revenue

Maintain rigorous pipeline, forecast, and next-step discipline

Coordinate with brokers, underwriting, markets, and product to solve obstacles quickly

Turn early wins into expansion, referenceability, and a repeatable sales playbook

First 30 days: master Hedge's product, agency workflow, market offering, and sales process

By day 60: own a...

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