Founding Partnerships Leader - Remote & Strategic Alliances

Hedge (YC P26); United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Health benefits

Job summary

Hedge (YC P26) is hiring a founding Head of Partnerships to build strategic alliances with agency networks, associations, technology providers, data partners, and other platforms that create durable two-sided value.

You will own the partnership strategy, source and negotiate deals, and coordinate cross-functional teams to launch and scale partnerships that drive distribution and product leverage across the US market. Equity and health benefits are included.

Responsibilities

• Develop and prioritize Hedge's partnership strategy
• Source, negotiate, launch, and grow agency-network and association partnerships
• Build technology, data, distribution, and program alliances where they create clear customer value
• Create partner economics, launch plans, success metrics, and governance
• Coordinate product, legal, operations, and go-to-market work required to make partnerships real
• Build a repeatable pipeline and operating cadence, not a collection of logos
• First 30 days: map the partner landscape and define a ranked strategy
• By day 60: advance a focused pipeline with clear value propositions and economics
• By day 90: launch or materially advance the first high-value partnership
• In 12 months: create a portfolio of partnerships that produces measurable distribution, product, or data advantage
• You are a senior relationship builder who can also structure deals and drive implementation. You distinguish partnership theater from operating leverage and are comfortable being accountable for results after the agreement is signed.

Job description

Hedge (YC P26) is hiring a founding Head of Partnerships to build strategic alliances with agency networks, associations, technology providers, data partners, and other platforms that create durable two-sided value.

You will own the partnership strategy, source and negotiate deals, and coordinate cross-functional teams to launch and scale partnerships that drive distribution and product leverage across the US market. Equity and health benefits are included.