Head of Insurance Sales and Business Development

Location: Bala Cynwyd (Philadelphia Area), Pennsylvania, United States

Company

hirify.global is a global quantitative trading firm using scientific rigor, machine learning, and advanced quantitative research to develop systematic trading strategies.

What you will do

• Build and lead the risk-transfer sales effort across insurance, swaps, and prediction market or event contracts.
• Personally originate and close complex and strategically important deals while routing opportunities to the best-positioned salesperson.
• Own strategic broker and deal-partner relationships and establish standards for account management, documentation, and escalation.
• Lead, coach, and develop the sales team; contribute to hiring, team organization, and sales compensation design.
• Own customer and deal tracking processes, tools, reporting, pipeline coverage, velocity, and forecast accuracy.
• Identify new risk categories and prospects, coordinate preliminary underwriting sign-off, and involve legal and compliance for each applicable instrument and regulatory regime.

Requirements

• 10+ years of sales experience, including 5+ years in senior sales or business development leadership.
• Track record of building and managing a high-quality sales pipeline with accurate reporting.
• Ability to operate without a fixed prospect-industry mandate and pursue risk-transfer demand across industries.
• Ability to quickly build working fluency across insurance, swaps, and event or prediction contracts.
• Sound judgment in distinguishing regulatory and compliance treatment across instrument types and escalating issues to legal and compliance.

Nice to have

• Experience managing and developing a sales team.
• Working fluency across insurance, swaps, and event or prediction contracts.
• Active surplus lines insurance licensure.
• Existing broker and deal-partner relationships.

Culture & Benefits

• Intellectually driven and highly collaborative environment involving researchers, engineers, and traders.
• Culture emphasizes scientific rigor, curiosity, innovation, and solving complex problems.
• Immediate start opportunity.