Travel Manager

AURORA•Los Angeles, CA

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

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. We’re now expanding our travel team as we scale our product and membership base. Our core team of 20 is seeking a full-time Travel Manager to join Aurora’s Member Experience Team. In this role, you’ll work directly with our founding travel team and our proprietary AI operating system, Astra, to shape and elevate Aurora’s global member experience - with a primary focus on delivering exceptional, high-touch travel for our members. If you’re looking for ownership, velocity, and the chance to help define the future of premium travel and lifestyle management, this role is designed for you.

Requirements

2+ years’ experience servicing high-performance individuals in luxury or bespoke travel
Deeply passionate about curating exceptional travel, from bespoke adventure itineraries to ultra-private, premium escapes
Frustrated by outdated tools and slow bureaucracy - you want to build and operate with modern systems and high velocity
Motivated to scale your knowledge, network, and impact, contributing to a global business you genuinely own a piece of, alongside other ultra-high-performance entrepreneurs
Courageous by nature, with a firm belief that “impossible” is an attitude - and that rapid progression and outsized rewards follow exceptional work
An owner at heart: you proactively drive projects end-to-end and don’t stop until the objective is fully achieved
Eager to expand your mastery of the premium lifestyle ecosystem, spanning dining, experiences, wellness, and luxury goods
Prepared for a high-intensity role, with the stamina and standards required to serve the world’s highest performers at an exceptional level

Responsibilities

Deliver high-touch travel execution for a global, ultra-high-performance membership base
Own functions across travel, lifestyle, product, and operations - building rare, compounding career capital based around travel
Develop and manage partnerships with top-tier industry operators and insider contacts
Participate in a minimum of two high-budget FAM trips, deepening on-the-ground knowledge and expanding Aurora’s global network
Work alongside our AI operating system, Astra, to curate and flawlessly execute exceptional travel experiences for Aurora’s global membership base
Build and manage relationships with top-tier travel partners, including boutique hotels, ultra-luxury resorts, private charter providers, premium DMCs, niche insider operators, elite destination specialists, and private accommodation suppliers
Contribute to building Aurora's operational infrastructure: owning travel & lifestyle functions end-to-end, spanning systems building, operational execution, and core commercial workflows
Organize and attend high-touch FAM trips, expanding your on-the-ground knowledge and strengthening Aurora’s global hospitality and insider network
Contribute to member servicing across Aurora’s core verticals, deepening your expertise in longevity & wellness, experiences & entertainment, luxury goods & gifts, and dining
Procure and operationalize unique insights into global travel trends, destinations, and high-end hospitality, ensuring Aurora consistently stays ahead of market knowledge and member expectations
Provide front-line intelligence and feedback to product and engineering, helping shape and evolve Aurora’s proprietary AI systems and overall product quality