Founding Growth & Ops Lead
About the role
Fernstone is building an AI-native insurance brokerage and is seeking a Founding Growth & Ops Lead to own Growth, Operations, and Product initiatives in a high-growth, founding-team context.
Responsibilities
- 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
Qualifications
- 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
Skills

About Fernstone
AI-powered insurance brokerage for businesses.
Fernstone is an AI-powered insurance brokerage for businesses. We are competing with the 40K insurance brokers that sell $500B in commercial premium each year. Before starting Fernstone, Luke and James met at Traba (Series A) when they started on the same day. James created and led Traba’s Enterprise function, growing it to 25% of company revenue. Luke led a Growth team, closing some of Traba’s largest customers like JB Hunt and Kimberly Clark. Bryant, James’ classmate from high school, was a Software Engineer at Sentilink and Google.
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