About the role
About Hedge
Hedge is building an AI native insurance company.
We are starting with a wholesale brokerage and MGU for specialty commercial risk. Insurance is a massive market that still runs on inboxes, PDFs, spreadsheets, portals, and phone calls. We think the next great insurance company will look very different.
Hedge is built by a small team with deep insurance and company-building experience. We are early, well-backed, and moving quickly. Every person who joins now will help shape the company, the product, and the underwriting culture from the ground up.
The Role
As our founding underwriter, you will help build the core underwriting function at Hedge.
You will decide what we write, how we price it, how brokers work with us, and what systems we build around the underwriting workflow. You will work directly with the founders on appetite, guidelines, broker relationships, capacity, claims, compliance, and product.
This is a role for someone who wants ownership, speed, and meaningful upside. Not a role for someone looking to inherit a finished playbook.
What You’ll Do
- Build the underwriting playbook for our first programs
- Review submissions, price risk, quote accounts, and manage the book
- Define appetite, guidelines, exclusions, referrals, and authority
- Work directly with wholesale brokers and distribution partners
- Partner with capacity providers, actuaries, claims, legal, and compliance
- Help turn underwriting judgment into workflows, rules, and software
- Shape the broker experience from day one
What We Value
Ownership: You take responsibility for outcomes, not just tasks.
Judgment: You know how to balance growth, risk selection, pricing, and portfolio quality.
You are comfortable moving quickly without a big-company process around every decision.
