People & Operations Associate

People & 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.
• Ambitious and growth-oriented. You see this role as a platform to grow into a leadership position in people operations over time as the company scales.

Benefits

1. Competitive salary with uncapped performance-based bonus
2. Founding stock options package
3. Flexible remote days
4. Lifestyle access perks and access to exclusive events & Aurora services
5. Whoop or Oura Ring on us
6. $2,000 annual education budget
7. Longevity subscription
8. Whatever tech you need to do your best work
9. Generous parental leave
10. Comprehensive health benefits, with 90% coverage, including dental and vision