Founding Wholesale Broker - Entertainment

About the role

You will combine retail-agency relationships, entertainment risk judgment, placement craft, and fast execution to produce durable revenue across film, television, digital production, music, touring, live events, venues, and production services.

Responsibilities

• Build a focused retail-agency pipeline in entertainment, media, production, and live events
• Qualify budgets, schedules, locations, venues, stunts, cast, equipment, vehicles, pyrotechnics, and prior losses
• Shape complete submissions and select the right carrier, MGA, and program path for each account
• Structure production packages, general liability, entertainment E&O, cast, equipment, auto, workers compensation, and excess placements as the risk requires
• Move quickly through compressed production timelines, certificate demands, lender requirements, and last-minute changes
• Build durable underwriter relationships and turn placement knowledge into repeatable playbooks

Requirements

• At least three years of brokerage, underwriting, or closely related experience in entertainment, media, film and television production, touring, live events, or special events
• Can discuss your book, producer relationships, carrier relationships, premium volume, and strongest entertainment classes with specific numbers
• Stay calm when deadlines move and details change

What Success Looks Like

• First 30 days: master Hedge's market access, entertainment appetite, submission standards, and current opportunity set
• By day 60: own a credible agency and submission pipeline with clear placement strategies
• By day 90: bind initial entertainment business and demonstrate repeatable conversion
• In 12 months: build a high-quality entertainment book and bind $5M in annual new premium

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 production, book, and market-relationship deep dive
• A live placement working session using a realistic entertainment risk
• A final conversation with the founders

Equal Opportunity Employer

We evaluate candidates based on ability, judgment, and potential, and we do not discriminate based on protected characteristics.