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Fernstone

Founding Growth & Operations Lead

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New York City, NY, USA
90K-130K Annually
Mid level
In-Office
New York City, NY, USA
90K-130K Annually
Mid level
Own growth of an industry vertical, partner with insurance carriers to place and transact policies, and turn operational processes into scalable, agent-led product workflows. This founding role requires analytical rigor, operational excellence, ownership, comfort with ambiguity, and fast execution in an in-person startup environment.
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Fernstone is building a new kind of insurance company: we combine AI with expert advisors to place insurance faster and at better terms.

Insurance is a $1T category that still runs on pen and paper. We believe AI will fundamentally reshape how insurance is bought, sold, and serviced.

We’ve raised $3M from YCombinator and other notable investors.

Fernstone was founded by James (BCG, Traba, UChicago), and Bryant (Google, SentiLink, Vanderbilt). We work in-person in our NYC office.

Since the start of the year we’ve grown from 0 to 500+ customers – we’ve built a compelling product, and now we are scaling it up to reach thousands more.

As Founding Growth & Ops Lead, your scope will span Growth, Operations, and Product:

  • Growth: own, launch, and grow an industry vertical core to our business

  • Operations: partner with insurance carriers to place coverage and transact on policies

  • Product: transmit operations work into scalable, agent-led workflows

We’ll be most excited if you:

  • Have 2 - 4+ years working on a team that requires operational rigor and analytical excellence (high-growth startup, consulting, banking/PE, or similar)

  • Have built something before and are excited about ownership, ambiguity, and fast execution

  • Have accomplished impressive things in your life, whether professionally, academically, competitively, or otherwise

This is a founding role, and that is reflected in scope, equity, and upside.

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