Founding Growth Operations

Hedge (YC P26); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Equity

Job summary

Hedge seeks a founding growth operator to build the systems turning market opportunity into repeatable revenue. This hands-on leader moves from analysis to campaigns to operating processes without waiting for a large team.

Based in San Francisco, you will own dashboards, attribution, and a scalable growth cadence, partnering with sales, product, and markets to convert insights into action and measurable outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical skills and comfort with data-driven decision making.
• Proven ability to design and run experiments to drive growth.
• Bias toward shipping and executing in a fast‑paced, early-stage environment.

Responsibilities

• Build the growth data model, dashboards, attribution, and operating cadence.
• Design and run acquisition, activation, and expansion experiments.
• Create lifecycle programs for agencies, prospects, and dormant opportunities.
• Improve lead routing, enrichment, segmentation, and conversion across the funnel.
• Partner with sales, product, and markets to turn insight into execution.
• Document the playbooks that let a small team scale.

Skills

Analytical

Shipping bias

Spreadsheet proficiency

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Dashboards

Attribution models

Job description

THE OPPORTUNITY

Hedge is hiring a founding growth operator to build the systems that turn market opportunity into repeatable revenue. This is a hands-on role for someone who can move from analysis to campaign to operating process without waiting for a large team.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Hedge is hiring a founding growth operator to build the systems that turn market opportunity into repeatable revenue. This is a hands-on role for someone who can move from analysis to campaign to operating process without waiting for a large team.

Compensation And Upside

Base salary is $110K-$150K. Target OTE is $180K-$250K, with performance compensation tied to measurable growth outcomes. Equity is 0.25%-1.50%.

What You Will Own

• Build the growth data model, dashboards, attribution, and operating cadence


• Design and run acquisition, activation, and expansion experiments


• Create lifecycle programs for agencies, prospects, and dormant opportunities


• Improve lead routing, enrichment, segmentation, and conversion across the funnel


• Partner with sales, product, and markets to turn insight into execution


• Document the playbooks that let a small team scale

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 days: establish a trusted funnel baseline and identify the highest-leverage gaps


• By day 60: launch measurable experiments and a weekly growth review


• By day 90: show improved conversion in at least one material part of the funnel


• In 12 months: operate a predictable, instrumented growth engine with clear economics

Who Thrives Here

You combine analytical depth with a bias to ship. You are comfortable in spreadsheets, systems, and customer conversations, and you can distinguish a useful signal from a vanity metric. Early-stage experience is strongly preferred.

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 working session based on a realistic Hedge scenario


• Final conversation with the founders

Hedge is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate candidates based on ability, judgment, and potential, and we do not discriminate based on protected characteristics.