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title: 'Product Lead @Panora at Hexa'
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# Product Lead @Panora at Hexa

- **Company:** Hexa
- **Location:** Paris, France
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-07-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-06
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa/e24e6a42-613b-46cb-b2a7-c12aa44fa1a4

## Job description

🚀 Why this role

Panora is building the AI platform that will redefine how insurance brokers work across Europe.

The problem is structural: brokers spend the majority of their time on repetitive, manual tasks (switching between carrier portals, chasing documents, re-entering data) instead of advising clients. The result? Underinsured businesses, frustrated brokers, and a profession stuck in the past.

We believe AI can fix this. Not by replacing brokers, but by giving every broker the capabilities of the best one in the room: on every case, at every critical moment. That's the vision we've been pitching to VCs. That's what we're building.

Panora has live product, first paying customers, and a roadmap far bigger than our current team. The foundations are solid, built with Hexa's support, with strong technical and product groundwork already in place. Now we need someone to take ownership of that vision and turn it into a product brokers love.

You'll be our first Product hire. You won't just manage a backlog, you'll shape how an entire industry modernizes. You'll own the roadmap, build the product function from scratch, and make sure every feature we ship moves us closer to a world where no one is underinsured.

🎯 Your mission

Take Panora's product from "it works" to "it's the reference": structure discovery, relentlessly prioritize, and quickly scope the features that unlock adoption and retention among brokerage firms.

📋 What you'll do

Discovery: understand, explore, prototype

- Field discovery: spend time with brokers (demos, calls, on-site visits) to understand their day-to-day quoting workflow and spot the real friction points, not surface-level requests.
- Insurance domain interface: translate the constraints of brokerage and carriers (products, quoting rules, regulation) into product decisions.
- Product design: frame flows and screens (with engineering support), keeping a high bar on simplicity for non-technical users.

Delivery: prioritize, spec, ship

- Roadmap & prioritization with founders: build and continuously arbitrate the product roadmap, make trade-offs between business impact, technical debt and speed, and say no.
- Specs & delivery: write clear specs, scope work with engineers, and drive delivery end to end through to production.
- Product voice internally: align sales and ops on the "what" and the "why," bridging customer needs and what we build. Own the weekly product meeting.
- Data & impact: instrument, measure usage (activation, retention, feature adoption via PostHog) and close the loop between product decisions and results.

Quality: make the AI trustworthy

- AI agentic workflows: design and iterate on the AI agents at Panora's core (multi-carrier quoting, document generation, compliance checks). You define what the agent does, how it handles edge cases, and where the human stays in the loop. You work closely with engineering to tune prompts, evaluate outputs, and push coverage.
- AI feedback loop: build the instrumentation that makes AI outputs improvable: capture broker corrections, flag low-confidence outputs, and turn real-world usage into a continuous improvement cycle. You own the gap between "AI generates" and "broker trusts."

✅ What we're looking for

- 4-6 years of product experience, including at least one role in a B2B SaaS environment with real roadmap ownership.
- You've already driven a product end to end: discovery → specs → delivery → impact measurement, autonomously.
- Excellent prioritization and trade-off skills: you know how to focus a small team on what matters.
- Analytical rigor: you make decisions with data, not gut feel alone.
- Crystal-clear communication, written and spoken, with both technical AND non-technical audiences (customers, founders).
- Experience with AI / automation-driven products.
- Strong appetite for a complex, regulated domain : insurance doesn't scare you, it interests you.
- You're comfortable with early-stage velocity and move forward without being told how.

➕ Bonus

- Knowledge of insurance, brokerage, or fintech/insurtech.
- Design sensibility (Figma) and the ability to produce your own prototypes/ASCII.
- You've already been a company's first product hire or built a product function from scratch.

💡 Your first 90 days

- 30 days: full immersion : you master the product, the brokerage market and the quoting workflow; you've spoken with 10+ customers/prospects and mapped the friction points.
- 60 days: you've taken ownership of the roadmap, set up a simple prioritization process, and shipped a first improvement with measurable impact.
- 90 days: you're Panora's product point of reference : the quarterly roadmap is scoped, instrumented, and aligned with sales and founders.

🎁 What we offer

- Compensation: €70-90k depending on profile + BSPCE (stock options) (early-stage range, to be adjusted based on seniority).
- The role of first Product at a Seed-stage insurtech: maximum impact, you build the function and will grow it as we scale.
- Direct access to founders and customers, zero bullshit layers, fast decisions.
- A huge, poorly-tooled market (brokerage) where every well-designed feature shows immediately.
- Hybrid, small tight-knit team, a culture of ownership and speed.

## About Hexa

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Hexa is a multi-stage startup studio that partners with founders to build, launch, and scale software companies from scratch.
- **Entity Type**: Private (multi-stage startup studio; operates Start, Sprint, and Scale tracks)
- **Headquarters**: Paris, France (12 rue Martel 75010)
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Not publicly listed as a single founder; built as a studio by a founding team.

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Venture Building / Startup Studio / Company Creation
- Target customers: Aspiring and experienced entrepreneurs (B2B, B2C, Enterprise tech founders)
- Mission or purpose statement: "To build alongside founders, not from the sidelines" – creating companies that leave a mark on the world by combining hands-on operational support with capital.

## Products & Services
- **Hexa Start**: A 12-month, intensive program for entrepreneurs who want to build a company from scratch (often before they have a concrete idea). Hexa provides the idea, team, co-founder, and covers all costs until the company becomes independent.
- **Hexa Sprint**: A 6-month program for founding teams who already have an idea and are looking for their first check (pre-seed). Offers €500k (€20k convertible note for 4% + €480k convertible note with MFN & cap at €8M).
- **Hexa Scale**: A growth-stage program for post-product-market-fit companies ($1–10M ARR, 10–40% YoY growth). Hexa invests €5–20M per company, takes a majority stake, and provides hands-on operational support (GTM, product, AI strategy, international expansion, hiring) for 9–12 months.
- **In-house Expertise**: 30+ experts in Product Design, Product Management, Engineering (via hired teams), GTM, Sales, Marketing, Finance, Legal, People & Talent, Comms & Brand, Community, and Investing.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Combined valuation of launched companies exceeds **$5 billion**.
- **Key Metric**: **50+ companies launched**; **2,600+ employees** across portfolio companies; **12 exits**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly listed on the site, but the studio itself acts as the primary investor and operator. Portfolio includes multiple billion-dollar companies (names not publicly listed in the provided data).
- **Growth Signals**: Studio has been operating since 2011 and has scaled from 0 to 50+ companies. The addition of the Scale track indicates a pivot to later-stage growth. Receives ~1,000 founder applications per year, selecting ~12 founders (2 per project) annually for the Start track.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Hands-on, not hands-off**: Unlike traditional accelerators or VCs, Hexa provides a full in-house team of operators (product, design, GTM, legal, finance) working alongside founders for 12 months (Start) or 9–12 months (Scale).
- **Founder-friendly majority stake**: For Scale, Hexa takes a majority stake but claims to be "the world’s most founder-friendly majority investor" – founders remain in the driver's seat with active board support.
- **Proven track record**: 50+ companies, $5B combined valuation, 12 exits, spanning 12+ years of SaaS expertise.
- **End-to-end platform**: Covers the entire lifecycle from idea (Start) to pre-seed (Sprint) to growth (Scale) – rare in the startup studio space.
- **Built-in network & resources**: Founders get immediate access to a team of 30+ experts, legal, finance, recruiting, and a community of other founders.

## Strategic Focus
- **Scaling the Scale track**: The newer Hexa Scale program is a key growth driver, targeting profitable, capital-efficient B2B SaaS companies with $1–10M ARR.
- **AI & embedded finance**: Hexa Scale explicitly helps companies with AI strategy and adding fintech/embedded finance capabilities.
- **International expansion**: Helping portfolio companies expand into new geographies and verticals.
- **Maintaining high selectivity**: Keeping the Start track highly curated (~12 founders/year) to ensure deep support and quality outcomes.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: "You'll never build alone" – the studio emphasizes deep collaboration, ambition, humility, and execution. The team is composed of entrepreneurs and expert operators.
- **Remote/Hybrid Policy**: Hexa is based in Paris. For the Start track, a presence at HQ is important to benefit from resources and mentorship. Sprint is remote-friendly but based in France/Europe for events. Scale is likely remote-friendly with in-person board/partner meetings.
- **Perks & Engineering Culture**: No software engineers in the core team – each startup's product is built by engineers recruited specifically for that company. This means engineers get to join a funded startup with a built-in support system from day one. The studio provides legal, finance, recruiting, and strategic support so engineers can focus on product.
- **Career Path**: Two kinds of roles: (1) the core team that builds the machine (partners, product managers, designers, GTM, finance, legal) and (2) founding hires inside the startups coming out of the studio. Either way, you're in "before it exists" – a high-risk, high-reward environment with significant ownership and impact.

## Sources
1. [hexa.com](https://www.hexa.com/)
2. [hexa.com/positions](https://www.hexa.com/positions)
3. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/hexa)
4. [hexa.com/team](https://www.hexa.com/team)
5. [hexa.com/faq](https://www.hexa.com/faq)

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