Founding Medical Malpractice Broker — Equity & High-Potential Book

Hedge (YC P26); San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity stake

Health benefits

Job summary

Hedge is hiring a founding wholesale broker in San Francisco to build and own our medical malpractice practice. You will combine retail-agency relationships with healthcare risk judgment to generate durable revenue across physicians, facilities, and services.

You will own submissions, negotiate structures, and drive placements end-to-end, building underwriter relationships and repeatable playbooks as the business grows.

Qualifications

• You have at least three years of brokerage or underwriting experience in medical malpractice or healthcare liability.
• Be prepared to discuss your book, existing producer and carrier relationships, and historical premium volumes with specific numbers.

Responsibilities

• Build a focused retail-agency pipeline in medical malpractice and healthcare professional liability.
• Triage clinical operations, procedures, staffing models, patient mix, loss history, limits, retroactive dates, and regulatory details.
• Shape submissions and select the right carrier, MGA, and program path for each account.
• Negotiate occurrence and claims-made structures, prior acts, defense, consent-to-settle, exclusions, and excess layers.
• Explain coverage tradeoffs clearly and drive placements from intake through bind.
• Build durable underwriter relationships and convert placement knowledge into repeatable playbooks.

Skills

Brokerage experience

Healthcare risk understanding

Relationship building

Job description

Hedge is hiring a founding wholesale broker in San Francisco to build and own our medical malpractice practice. You will combine retail-agency relationships with healthcare risk judgment to generate durable revenue across physicians, facilities, and services.

You will own submissions, negotiate structures, and drive placements end-to-end, building underwriter relationships and repeatable playbooks as the business grows.