People & Operations Associate
21 days ago
New York
Job DescriptionPeople & Operations Associate Manhattan, New York On Target First-Year Earnings: $150,000 ($110k base + $40k uncapped bonus) Meaningful early equity at our ground-floor valuation with >100x upside potential In office with flexible remote days About Aurora Aurora is the travel & lifestyle management operating system for the world’s highest-performance founders, athletes, and family offices. Backed by the most successful founder in the space ever. Our mobile app empowers ultra-high-performance individuals and their teams to master their relationships, exploration, and longevity across five lifestyle categories: travel, dining, experiences, luxury goods, and longevity. To date, we have: • Raised $5M from Tier-1 investors and operators, including the founder of Cleo, Quadpay, early investors in Supercell and Deliveroo, the President of VistaJet, and tier-1 athletes including Kevin Love and Kyle Kuzma, • Achieved industry-leading engagement among paying members, with a large waitlist seeking access, • Built a proactive, seamless, conversational product frequently described as “magic” by our members The Aurora People & Operations Associate What if you could define the high-performance culture for the team setting a new standard for high-performance living? Aurora is building a new category: an AI-native lifestyle operating system for the world’s highest-performing individuals. To do that, we’re assembling an equally exceptional internal team: small, elite, and obsessed with excellence. We’re now hiring our first People & Operations Associate to work directly alongside Aurora’s COO. This is a rare, ground-floor opportunity to embed a high-performance culture, shaping how Aurora hires, operates, and performs as we scale. The role reports directly to Aurora’s Co-Founder & COO and has clear potential to grow rapidly into a leadership position spanning Operations and People. Requirements Key Responsibilities • Own Aurora’s people operations and internal infrastructure end to end, spanning performance management, HR systems, hardware and tools., • Manage Aurora’s performance management system, including scorecards, reviews, and tracking that give founders and managers clear, real-time visibility., • Foster an engaging, high-trust team culture, owning initiatives such as milestone recognition, internal rituals, and programs that strengthen connection and morale., • Partner directly with the founders on execution, owning cross-functional special projects such as team offsites, strategy sessions, internal planning cycles, and ad hoc operational initiatives., • Operate Aurora’s hiring and onboarding processes, coordinating with function leads to establish hiring pipelines, assessment mechanics, and interview flow, and ensuring seamless employee onboarding., • Run core finance-adjacent people operations, including expense management, policy adherence, and early flagging of anomalies or inefficiencies. Who You Are You’re early in your career (~3–8 years of experience) and have operated inside a professional, high-expectation environment. Your spikes: • Exceptionally organized. You’re borderline obsessive about order, clarity, and follow-through. You take pride in building systems that run cleanly and reliably., • Emotionally intelligent. You understand individual needs and team dynamics, and you believe strong culture is built through clear expectations, consistent standards, and accountability., • Willing to roll up your sleeves. You’re comfortable jumping between strategic work and hands-on execution, and you take real ownership of whatever needs to get done to keep the team moving., • Comfortable with chaos. You can prioritize and re-prioritize quickly in an early-stage environment where requirements shift and ambiguity is constant., • Competitive salary with uncapped performance-based bonus, • Founding stock options package, • Flexible remote days, • Lifestyle access perks and access to exclusive events & Aurora services, • Whoop or Oura Ring on us, • $2,000 annual education budget, • Longevity subscription, • Whatever tech you need to do your best work, • Generous parental leave, • Comprehensive health benefits, with 90% coverage, including dental and vision