Founding Underwriter
- Pay
- $125,000 – $250,000 per year
- Location
- San Francisco, CA · On-site
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Mid-level
- Experience
- 3+ years
- Listed
- 23 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- commercial risk assessment
- underwriting
- submission structuring
Also useful
- negotiation
- product design
Stated benefits & perks
- Health
The Opportunity
Hedge is hiring a founding underwriter to combine sound risk judgment with the operating discipline and product thinking required to scale. You will help agencies understand appetite, improve submission quality, structure placements, and turn underwriting knowledge into repeatable systems.
Compensation and Ownership
Base salary is $125K-$250K. Equity is 0.25%-1.50%. Final placement reflects underwriting depth, line expertise, authority, and the operating scope you can own.
What You Will Own
- Evaluate commercial risks, exposures, controls, and submission quality
- Match risks to appropriate carrier, MGA, and program appetite
- Work with agencies and brokers to close information gaps and structure strong submissions
- Negotiate terms and clearly communicate coverage, conditions, and tradeoffs
- Build underwriting guidelines, decision tools, and feedback loops into Hedge's platform
- Track outcomes and improve risk selection, turnaround time, and placement quality
What Success Looks Like
- First 30 days: master Hedge's current markets, appetite, workflows, and quality gaps
- By day 60: own underwriting and placement decisions for a defined segment
- By day 90: improve submission quality or turnaround time in a measurable way
- In 12 months: help build a scalable underwriting function with trusted judgment and clear economics
Who Thrives Here
You have at least three years of commercial underwriting or closely related placement experience. You can make and explain decisions, handle ambiguity, and turn tacit knowledge into process without reducing underwriting to a checklist.
Why Hedge
Hedge is building the operating system for commercial insurance distribution. You will work directly with the founders, own a consequential part of the company, and help define how the function works as we scale. We offer health benefits and meaningful equity.
Work Model
This role is based in San Francisco and works in person with the team six days a week.
Interview Process
- Application review
- A focused introductory conversation
- A role-specific deep dive
- A practical underwriting case discussion based on a realistic Hedge scenario
- Final conversation with the founders
Equal opportunity and legal notices
Hedge is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate candidates based on ability, judgment, and potential, and we do not discriminate based on protected characteristics.
From Hedge Specialty's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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Common questions
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The Founding Underwriter posting at Hedge Specialty states compensation of $125,000 – $250,000 per year. It is listed as a full-time position. Final pay may depend on location, experience, and interview evaluation on Hedge Specialty's official career site.
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