Hi, I’m Ellie, People Lead at hx.
I joined hx in January 2025 as a Senior People Partner and have recently stepped into the People Lead role. Outside of work, I’m an F1 fan and dog mum, so I’m no stranger to fast-paced environments or the occasional pit stop for walkies.
Our People team supports all things people at hx, from performance and engagement to the systems, insights and day-to-day operations that help our teams do their best work.
We’re growing the team and looking for someone to own our People reporting and analytics, while helping keep the operational side of the function running smoothly.
It’s a great opportunity for someone who enjoys turning data into meaningful insights, wants to make a real impact and is excited to help shape how the People team grows alongside the business.
Interested? Read more about the role and life at hx below.
At hyperexponential, we're building the AI-powered platform that enables the world's most critical decisions in a $7 trillion industry, which risks to take, and how to price them. These are the decisions that shape real-world outcomes: whether rockets successfully launch into space, autonomous vehicles make it to market, or communities recover after major storms.
Until now, insurance has been making billion-dollar decisions using outdated tools. We're changing that. Our platform brings together data, AI, and human expertise to give insurers the fastest path from submission to decision, helping them move faster, act smarter, and take on more risk with confidence.
Backed by a16z, Highland Europe, and Battery Ventures, we're scaling globally, already trusted by nearly 50 of the world's largest insurers, with zero churn and billions in premiums flowing through hx.
What began as a single product in one market has rapidly evolved into a multi-product, multi-territory platform powering every stage of pricing and underwriting. AI is at the core of what we do, from building the world's first domain-specific AI peer programmer for insurance (think GitHub Copilot with a PhD in actuarial science) to shaping agentic workflows that reinvent how this industry operates.
What makes hx different is the people who build it. Here, impact isn't tied to title or tenure, it's defined by the challenges you take on and the discipline you bring. Surrounded by peers who stretch you, you'll do the best, hardest work of your life in a company engineered to endure. If that sounds like you, join us in building what comes next.
Our People team owns the systems and data that keep hx a high-performance, high-engagement place to work: performance and growth, people analytics, compensation and benefits, and HR compliance. We are building the reporting layer that lets the business make faster, better-evidenced decisions about its people rather than relying on instinct, and we work closely with Talent to connect hiring and pipeline data with performance and engagement data so leaders see the full employee lifecycle instead of fragments of it.
Inside People and Talent, AI has already changed how we screen, how we write up interviews and how we surface insight to leaders. There is far more to do. Plenty of what we do still runs on manual effort that could be designed out, and this role exists to go after that. We care much more about what you have built and put in front of real users than about the size of the team you have sat in.
You will work directly with People Leaders, with real scope to shape how the team works as we grow. One thing worth being direct about: there is no finished playbook here. If you need a well-defined remit and clear instruction to do your best work, this will be frustrating. If you would rather find the problem yourself and build the fix, you will have a lot of room.
Build and own the People reporting layer. Dashboards on retention, attrition, engagement and other core KPIs, and the analysis that turns a trend into a recommendation leaders can act on.
Work with Talent to join hiring and pipeline data to People data, giving one view of the lifecycle from candidate to tenure that leaders can interrogate themselves.
Design and build AI tooling for the team. Agents and skills that handle recurring people queries, draft the documentation we currently write by hand, and surface insight without someone having to run a report. You will build these yourself, iterate once real users hit them, and own them afterwards.
Find the parts of our core people processes that run on manual effort, from onboarding through to payroll data integrity, and rebuild them. We will judge this on what changes, not on whether it keeps running.
Analyse what comes out of our performance review cycles in Lattice and our engagement surveys, and turn that into initiatives the team can act on.
Keep our HRIS data accurate and trustworthy, including records, reporting and troubleshooting.
Support HR administration, compliance and benefits, including documentation, audit support and benefits queries, and contribute to wellness, DEI and learning and development work across the business.
Built something with AI that other people then used. An agent, a skill, an automated workflow. We will ask what it does, who uses it, what broke the first time and what you changed.
Worked in people operations, HR or talent in an environment that was changing faster than the process documentation could keep up with.
Taken a process you were responsible for, found the part of it that was wasting time, and redesigned it rather than absorbing the work.
Built a report or dashboard from messy data and used it to change a decision, not just to describe a situation.
Worked in an HRIS or performance platform and been the person responsible when the data was wrong.
Handled something sensitive with discretion, where getting the detail right mattered and the consequence of getting it wrong was real.
Worked across tools beyond one vendor's suite, and can talk about where AI genuinely helped and where you decided it did not.
You struggle to adapt to change or ambiguity, or find it difficult to collaborate across diverse teams.
You're not energised by a culture that values ownership, feedback, and continuous learning.
If reading our Culture Document leaves you feeling neutral rather than energised, hx may not be the place where you’ll do your best work. We’re building something that asks for commitment and conviction, and we want you to feel excited by the opportunity to grow with us.
This role sits within a £40,000 - £55,000 salary range. At hx, we're committed to salary transparency, you'll always have clarity on pay early in the process, and our Talent Partner will share more detail with you during initial conversations. We're also working towards publishing salary information for all roles globally.
Because we're building at the intersection of technology/SaaS and insurance, our roles don't always map neatly onto traditional benchmarks. Our approach is to design compensation that's competitive in the market, fair across teams, and aligned with the impact our people make.
£5,000 training and conference budget for individual and group development.
25 days of holiday plus 8 bank holidays (33 days total).
Company pension scheme via Penfold.
Mental health support and therapy via Spectrum.life.
Individual wellbeing allowance via Juno.
Private healthcare insurance through AXA.
Income protection and Life Insurance.
Cycle to Work Scheme.
Equity: We offer equity across all roles at hx, making it a significant component of total compensation. Your Talent Partner will be able to share more details about this.
Top-spec equipment (laptop, screens, adjustable desks, etc.).
Regular remote and in-person hackathons, lunch and learns, socials, and games nights.
Team breakfasts and lunches, snacks, drinks fridge, and a fun office at The Ministry.
Exceptional opportunities for personal development and growth as we build something remarkable together.
Initial call with our Talent team to kick things off and learn more about your background.
Manager interview with our People Lead to explore your experience in more depth.
Skills assessment, presenting a People Analytics deliverable to the team.
Values interview to get to know how you work and how that aligns with hx's culture with our VP of People and Senior Director of Finance and Operations.
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hxer's are at the centre of everything we build. We know that progress depends on diverse perspectives, and we are committed to creating an environment where everyone can thrive, grow, and make an impact. We recognise there is always more to do, and we take responsibility for shaping a workplace that is not only diverse but genuinely inclusive.
Diversity is not just the right thing to do, it is key to solving the complex challenges we choose to take on. By welcoming people from all backgrounds and experiences, we strengthen our ability to question assumptions, push boundaries, and design solutions that endure.
If you're energised by complexity and motivated to grow, we encourage you to apply and join our global team.
If this opportunity resonates with you, we encourage you to apply or share it with your connections! Our dedicated talent team reviews all applications, and we promise to provide feedback regardless of the outcome.
For more information about applying and to view other opportunities, you can visit our careers page.
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Please note that background checks will be conducted as part of the hiring process to ensure compliance with our governance policies. We handle all background checks sensitively and in full compliance with relevant regulations. All applicant data will be processed in accordance with data protection regulations and our privacy policy.
Hyperexponential provides pricing software for the specialty insurance sector. Its main product, hx Renew, is a cloud-based pricing decision intelligence platform that lets insurers build, deploy, and refine complex actuarial models. The platform helps actuaries, underwriters, and other insurance professionals analyze data, create pricing models, and collaborate on pricing strategies, all through a software-as-a-service (SaaS) interface. Compared with broader analytics vendors, Hyperexponential focuses specifically on specialty and commercial insurance pricing, offering end-to-end model development, deployment, and governance within a single platform to support more profitable pricing decisions. The company’s goal is to help insurers improve profitability and manage risk by enabling data-driven, collaborative pricing across global clients.
Company Size
201-500
Company Stage
Series B
Total Funding
$91M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2017
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hyperexponential partners with Novacore to unify pricing, rating, and underwriting workflows across its 20-program specialty portfolio. Partnership brings novacore's full specialty book onto one platform, feeding real-time portfolio signals directly into underwriting decisions. LONDON and CONSHOHOCKEN, PA, Aug. 27, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - hyperexponential (hx), the agentic platform for underwriting work, today announced a partnership with Novacore, the independent specialty insurance managing general agent (MGA). The deployment will bring Novacore's admitted, non-admitted, and reinsurance programs onto a single hx platform, giving its teams unified pricing operations and portfolio visibility across the business. Novacore will move all 20 of its specialty programs onto hx, spanning specialty transportation, real estate, alternative risk, social services, and reinsurance. Most programs are expected to be live within the next year, with the rest to follow as the partnership grows. Rather than managing disconnected systems program by program, Novacore's teams can now compare performance across the book, catch issues earlier, and move faster on the rate changes that matter most, without the IT bottlenecks that have historically slowed them. "Bringing our admitted, non-admitted, and reinsurance programs onto a single platform is an important step in enabling Novacore's ability to continue to scale in a profitable manner," said Darren Govender, Chief Product Officer of Novacore. "Our actuarial team can efficiently build, deploy and govern pricing and underwriting models across all our programs in one place whilst also having close to real time insight of key performance indicators across the portfolio." "Novacore was built to be a forward-thinking, agent-friendly specialty MGA," said Aaron Miller, CEO of Novacore. "That means scaling smart, pricing sharper, and being the partner that sets the pace rather than waiting on it. hyperexponential gives us one foundation across admitted, non-admitted, and reinsurance, so we can spot trends early, respond deliberately, and stay ahead of the market for our agents and carriers." "We're proud to partner with Novacore," said Richard Gunn, President at hyperexponential. "The old model treated pricing, rating, and portfolio visibility as three separate problems. Novacore shares our vision for one agentic platform: where portfolio signals reach underwriters at the moment they're pricing, not in a report they check later." Novacore expects to bring its remaining specialty programs onto hx over the course of the rollout, extending unified pricing and portfolio visibility across its full book. About hyperexponential hyperexponential (hx) is the agentic platform for commercial P&C insurance underwriting. The platform amplifies underwriting judgment across submission triage, risk assessment, pricing, and portfolio steering, helping carriers write more business at a better loss ratio. hx is trusted by leading global insurers for underwriting decisions across more than $75 billion in annual commercial P&C premium. Customers include Aviva, Allianz, Sompo, Beazley, Markel, HDI, Cincinnati, Convex, and Bowhead. Learn more at hyperexponential.com. About Novacore Novacore is an independent, next-generation specialty insurance provider with a bold mission: transforming insurance - for agents, carrier partners, clients and the future. Building on the 35-year track record of NSM Insurance Group, Novacore delivers industry-specific insurance programs through specialized underwriting, advanced technology and trusted carrier partnerships. The company partners with more than 20,000 agents nationwide and offers 20+ specialty programs across a diverse set of markets. For more information, visit novacore.com. [email protected] Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content "as is" without warranty of any kind. Alabama Business Reporter do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
Hyperexponential has introduced hyperoperator, an AI agent that processes broker submissions from intake to decision-ready files within insurers' existing controls. The platform handles data extraction, applies underwriting logic, and prepares files for review or automated progression. The system works across email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and mobile devices. During a live demonstration at hx Live London, hyperoperator processed a cyber risk submission to pricing in under three minutes without manual data entry. Hyperexponential's platform currently supports underwriting decisions across more than $75 billion in annual commercial property and casualty premium, up 66% from $45 billion last year. The company's customers include Aviva, Allianz, Sompo, Beazley, Markel, HDI, Cincinnati, Convex, and Bowhead. Carriers can configure the system across four modes: straight-through execution, human-in-the-loop review, ad hoc analysis, and always-on monitoring. Hyperoperator will enter controlled customer rollout later this year.
hyperexponential introduces hyperoperator, the unified agent for underwriting work. Jul 8, 2026 hyperexponential (hx) today introduced hyperoperator, the agent that advances broker submissions from intake to decision-ready file inside a carrier's own pricing, appetite, and authority controls. With this release, hx becomes the first agentic underwriting workbench for commercial P&C insurance, capable of taking a broker email to a fully priced and quoted risk. Traditional underwriting workbenches are tools underwriters use to organize work. An agentic underwriting workbench does the routine and preparatory work itself, then brings in underwriters for the high-value judgment calls. hyperoperator meets underwriters where they are: in the hx app, email, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and on mobile devices. Getting started can be as simple as forwarding an email. From there, hyperoperator extracts and structures data, identifies the next allowed action, applies the relevant underwriting logic, and prepares a decision-ready file for review, whether that is underwriter review or automated progression within insurer-defined controls. Across commercial P&C, underwriters are being asked to respond faster, select better risks, and protect profitability as market conditions soften. Most carriers have experimented with AI. Few have moved it into live underwriting. The constraint has never been AI capability. It has been underwriting context: pricing logic, appetite rules, authority controls, portfolio signals, and organizational memory scattered across documents, emails, and disconnected tools. That is why most AI projects stop at intake or triage, leaving the underwriting decision itself untouched. hyperoperator goes deeper, operating inside carriers' respective strategies, models, governance controls, and decision rules to execute underwriting work, not merely assist with it. In his keynote at hx Live London, Amrit Santhirasenan, CEO and Co-Founder of hyperexponential, showed how hyperoperator coordinates specialist agents across the hx platform to turn a carrier's complete context into finished underwriting decisions. In a live demonstration, hyperoperator took a broker submission to a triaged and priced cyber risk in under three minutes, with no manual data entry. "For years, underwriting software has helped teams manage the work around the decision," said Santhirasenan. "The opportunity now is to bring agents into the decision workflow itself, with the pricing logic, portfolio context, and authority controls that serious underwriting requires. hyperoperator gives underwriters leverage without taking judgment out of their hands." Top global carriers trust hx for underwriting decisions across more than $75 billion in annual commercial P&C premium, up 66% from $45 billion in the past year alone. That scale reflects eight years of production experience in some of the world's most demanding underwriting environments. hyperoperator builds on hx's specialist AI agents for submission ingestion, model development and testing, and risk assessment. Already in use across hx's customer base, those agents have shown that AI can take on specific parts of underwriting and actuarial work inside governed production environments. hyperoperator now coordinates those capabilities across the full underwriting journey. The result: every risk gets the right level of review, brokers get faster decisions, and underwriters spend more time on judgment than administration. Carriers can configure agent-led underwriting across four modes: * Straight-through execution: Agents advance work where rules, confidence thresholds, and authority limits allow. * Human-in-the-loop review: Submissions pause for underwriter judgment, referral, or approval when needed, with the relevant context already assembled. * Ad hoc underwriting analysis: Underwriters can ask pricing, appetite, or portfolio questions in the flow of work. * Always-on monitoring: Agents watch book-level signals, including exposure concentration, adequacy drift, and anomalies, and surface what needs attention. "Most carriers believe they are further along the AI maturity curve than they actually are," said Karlyn Carnahan, Head of Insurance North America at Celent. "The next phase of AI in insurance will not be defined by isolated pilots. It will be defined by how safely and effectively carriers bring AI into the workflows where underwriting decisions are prepared, reviewed, and improved over time." The hx platform includes governed workflows, underwriting rules and rating calculation engines, underwriter review-and-approval tools, and portfolio intelligence that brings book-level context into live decisions. Because hyperoperator works through that platform, the agents it coordinates can act on the full underwriting context that good decisions depend on, while remaining governed by the rules, controls, and approval paths insurers define. "Most AI in underwriting stops at the first 20% of the workflow: reading submissions, routing tasks, and helping teams move faster," said Marcus Ryu, General Partner at Battery Ventures and Co-Founder of Guidewire. "The hard part is the other 80%: connecting AI to the pricing logic, workflow controls, portfolio context, and trust infrastructure that underwriting decisions depend on. hyperoperator is compelling because hx has spent years building that foundation in production." hyperoperator will enter controlled customer rollout later this year. For more information, visit hyperexponential.com. About hyperexponential hyperexponential (hx) is the agentic platform for commercial P&C insurance underwriting. The platform amplifies underwriting judgment across submission triage, risk assessment, pricing, and portfolio steering, helping carriers write more business at a better loss ratio. hx is trusted by leading global insurers for underwriting decisions across more than $75 billion in annual commercial P&C premium. Customers include Aviva, Allianz, Sompo, Beazley, Markel, HDI, Cincinnati, Convex, and Bowhead. Learn more at hyperexponential.com. Media Contact:
hyperexponential supports Allianz Commercial's global pricing and underwriting modernisation. hyperexponential (hx), a technology provider specialising in AI-native pricing and underwriting solutions for commercial insurers, has extended its partnership with Allianz Commercial as part of the insurer's ongoing multi-year pricing and underwriting modernisation programme. According to hyperexponential, its platform has now been implemented across Allianz Commercial's key lines of business, with 13 pricing tools delivered within a 13-week timeframe. The company said the rollout has broadened pricing tool coverage across Allianz Commercial's core portfolio and demonstrates the efficiency gains that can be achieved through modern pricing infrastructure. hyperexponential stated that commercial insurers are increasingly investing in connected, data-led underwriting and pricing capabilities to support decision-making and operational performance. The company, which works with a range of global insurers and underwriting organisations, described its work with Allianz Commercial as a major transformation initiative within the commercial insurance market. Tim Pitt, Chief Pricing and Portfolio Officer at Allianz Commercial, commented: "Speed and precision in pricing are critical to our competitive position in this dynamic and truly international market. Partnering with hyperexponential has given us the platform and agility to take control of our pricing tools, iterate rapidly, and respond to customers and market conditions with confidence. Delivering 13 tools in 13 weeks demonstrates what's possible when you build on modern infrastructure designed for actuarial workflows." "This collaboration has demonstrated fast and effective delivery for our pricing transformation, an integral aspect of our broader strategies to materially improve the technologies and operations supporting our underwriting teams. By standardising the hx platform and embedding it into our commercial infrastructure, we're creating a scalable foundation that empowers our teams to move faster while maintaining the governance and control standards our business requires," added Jon-Paul Jones, Chief Operating Officer at Allianz Commercial. hyperexponential added that the implementation establishes a consistent pricing framework that can be expanded across Allianz Commercial's international operations while maintaining governance and oversight requirements. "Allianz Commercial has set an incredibly ambitious agenda for pricing and underwriting transformation, and the pace at which their teams have turned that vision into reality speaks for itself. We're committed to supporting that momentum as they scale across their global operations," said Amrit Santhirasenan, CEO and co-founder of hyperexponential.
Markel International to modernise underwriting environment with hyperexponential partnership. Markel International, a division of Markel Insurance, the insurance operations within Markel Group Inc., has partnered with hyperexponential (hx) to modernise rating, underwriting workflows and integration architecture across its Canadian business. By integrating hx's platform, Markel is investing heavily in a sophisticated, AI-native underwriting environment. At the same time, it secures hx's growing footprint in North America as a leading pricing and underwriting decision platform for commercial P&C carriers. As part of its collaboration with hyperexponential, Markel Canada has launched a purpose-built Environmental rating capability on the hx platform, enabling a more streamlined, digital experience. This investment marks a shift from fragmented, transactional pricing toward a more connected underwriting experience. By bringing data, pricing and context together in a single workflow, underwriters now have what they need at the point of decision, this without friction or unnecessary hand-offs, the firms explained. Establishing the hx platform as a centralised rating layer creates a scalable foundation that can support more sophisticated products, package policies and evolving portfolio needs over time. This delivers greater clarity at the point of pricing today, while providing a platform designed to grow with the business, enabling faster, more informed decisions as underwriting complexity increases. "Our underwriters need tools that support good judgement, not slow it down. By pulling data directly into the rating workflow, we're cutting friction from everyday decisions and letting our teams focus on what matters most - building trusted relationships with our broker partners, understanding risk and delivering consistent outcomes for clients," says Cliff Laidlaw, Senior Vice President, Underwriting at Markel Canada. Built with the future in mind, the architecture is designed to support emerging agentic and AI-enabled capabilities as they mature, positioning Markel Canada to continue advancing toward truly AI-native underwriting workflows. Maureen Tomlinson, Senior Vice President of Operations at Markel Canada and Head of AI at Markel International, added: "For Markel Canada, this is about more than replacing spreadsheets. It reflects our commitment to investing in a more sophisticated underwriting environment. The hx platform gives our underwriters a better experience today, while laying the groundwork for faster delivery, stronger data capture and future AI-native workflows across the business." Richard Gunn, President at hyperexponential, commented: "Canada is an important market for commercial underwriting, and Markel's ambition here stands out: they're not just patching existing systems, they're building for what comes next. hyperexponential has built the leading AI-native underwriting workbench that keeps pricing, data and decisions in one place, from intake through to quote. We're proud to support a team moving with this level of pace and intent to deliver the decision infrastructure for the next era of underwriting."