Founding Market Access Lead (Remote + Equity)

Hedge Specialty; United States; On-site; USD 125,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Equity

Job summary

Hedge is hiring a founding Head of Markets to build the market-access foundation behind our distribution platform. You will own appointments, capacity strategy, and the operational readiness to place business, including portal access and submission routes.

You will shape a differentiated portfolio and align with brokers, underwriting, product, and compliance to deliver measurable economics. This role may be remote in the United States with regular travel and reporting to the founders.

Responsibilities

• Build a market strategy around demand, appetite gaps, and placement economics.
• Source and negotiate carrier, MGA, MGU, program, and delegated-authority relationships.
• Drive appointment, contracting, producer-code, portal, and submission-route activation.
• Maintain records of authority, appetite, commission, and operational constraints.
• Partner with brokers, underwriting, product, and compliance to enable market access.

Skills

Market access

Carrier relationships

MGA relationships

Appetite coverage

Producer codes

Job description

Hedge is hiring a founding Head of Markets to build the market-access foundation behind our distribution platform. You will own appointments, capacity strategy, and the operational readiness to place business, including portal access and submission routes.

You will shape a differentiated portfolio and align with brokers, underwriting, product, and compliance to deliver measurable economics. This role may be remote in the United States with regular travel and reporting to the founders.