People & Operations Associate

AURORA•New York, NY

1d•$110,000•Hybrid

About The Position

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

You’re early in your career (~3–8 years of experience) and have operated inside a professional, high-expectation environment.
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.

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.