Proactive Lifestyle Strategist

Proactive Lifestyle Strategist

New York, USA

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On Target Earnings: $160,000 ($120k cash base + $40k OTE Bonus, uncapped)

Meaningful early equity at our ground-floor valuation with >100x upside potential.

About Aurora

Aurora is a multi–VC-backed startup building the operating system for $5T of high-performance lifestyle spend.

Our mobile app proactively empowers the world's highest performance individuals and organizations to master their relationships, exploration, and longevity by servicing them globally, 24/7, across 5 lifestyle categories: travel, dining, experiences, goods & gifting, and longevity.

To date, we have:

• ⁠⁠raised >$4m in funding from tier-1 investors, operators, and athletes behind Supercell, Stripe, Roblox, FaceIt, Deliveroo, Wander, Archer, VistaJet, Mural, Fanfix, Cleo, Flex, Poppi, Salido, the NBA, and the Premier League
• ⁠⁠⁠achieved >3x industry-leading engagement from our paying customers, with an extensive waiting list, currently growing revenue >30% MoM
• ⁠⁠⁠built the V1 of a proactive, prompt-less product described as ‘magic’ by our paying customers

The Proactive Lifestyle Strategist

Aurora’s core team of 20 is searching for a full-time Proactive Lifestyle Strategist to lead in defining & building our AI-led proactive function.

You will work directly with our co-founders, member experience, product, and operations teams to develop a function that proactively delivers high-touch recommendations across our five core lifestyle verticals, engaging and delighting members.

This is a rare opportunity to shape the future of an AI-native company at the intersection of technology, luxury, and longevity.

This role reports directly to Aurora’s Co-Founder & COO, and offers a fast track toward leadership across Growth, Product, and Business Operations.

Our Principles

We’re a team of tier-1 backed and exited operators united our five core principles:

1. We seek truth
2. We are high-leverage
3. We are courageous
4. We care deeply
5. We believe impossible is an attitude

Why Aurora:

1. High Leverage: Lead the operations behind a daily-use product in the hands of the world’s most ambitious and high-achieving individuals and organizations, empowering them to maximize their global impact
2. Cutting Edge AI: Gain hands-on experience working with and building a revolutionary AI system, redefining lifestyle management at the highest level
3. Generationally Defining: Play an essential role in designing the definitive life operating system - a >$100bn opportunity at the intersection of technology, luxury, and longevity

About the Founders

Aurora was founded in 2024 by:

• Jonah Lowenstein, previously backed by the investors & operators behind Facebook, Spotify and Venmo
• Aurelius Zwick, UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year
• Dmitry Ogurtsov, former Director of Engineering at Workbounce (conversational AI tool acquired by ZoomInfo)

Aurora’s Chairman is Alex Macdonald, founder of premium digital concierge Velocity Black (acquired by Capital One for $300M).

We’ve raised $4M from tier-1 investors in this space, including Boost Capital, Koro Capital, Profluence VC, EQT Angel Fund, the Founder of Cleo, the Founder of Wander, the Founder of Velocity Black, and the President of VistaJet US.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactive Curation: Personally curate and deliver personalized, high-impact lifestyle recommendations across travel, dining, experiences, luxury goods, and longevity - both in-app and via direct comms channels - which engage, inspire, and empower member journeys toward life mastery.
• Analysis & Personalization: Analyze a range of proprietary data sources, including member parameters & preferences as well as supply-side inventory, tailoring curations which anticipate both members' short-term needs and long-term objectives.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Product, Engineering, and Operations teams to refine Aurora's AI agent outputs, enhance our models' proactive recommendation capabilities, and better integrate human intelligence into Aurora's AI-driven workflows.
• Iteration & Measurement: Track results of proactive recommendations, analyze engagement and conversion rates, and iterate content formats and styles to maximize member engagement and satisfaction.
• Service Members During Surges: Understanding this is a startup environment, when volumes require, roll up your sleeves and work with our industry-leading internal AI and on-demand Lifestyle Management team to manage and curate premium experiences for members, ensuring recommendations seamlessly fit their personal parameters.

Who You Are:

• Resourceful & Analytical: You balance creativity with analysis - you can analyze data and intuitively pick up on core themes. You can use these insights to craft curations and narratives that feel pleasantly surprising, relevant and perfectly timed.
• Self-starter Who Thrives Under Pressure: You push yourself to start and constantly improve your process without being asked or managed. You can handle multiple priorities under pressure. You hold exceptionally high standards for yourself and your outputs.
• Trusted, Influential and Persuasive: You can design around both short-term experiences and long-term objectives, and can build narratives that others buy into. You make great recommendations that people tend to follow and come back for more.
• Deep in Travel & Lifestyle: You have a strong base knowledge of travel, a keen eye for global cultural and lifestyle trends, and a deep interest in premium longevity and personal growth.
• Experimental, grounded in truth: You are high conviction on your theses, but prepared to modify your approach if data is contrarian to your original understanding. You love iterating towards the best version of something.
• A Consistent Operator: You set clear expectations with yourself and others, speak and write with precision and intention, and know how to build trust through consistency and excellence.
• Courageous Enough to Impact: You are actively excited by the prospect of curating high-impact, high-stakes recommendations for the world's most influential people and organizations. The mission of positively and proactively influencing those re-shaping the world around us to unlock their full potential deeply motivates you.

Benefits

1. Competitive salary + performance-based bonus.
2. Founding stock options package on the ground floor of a $10bn+ opportunity.
3. Lifestyle access perks at exclusive events and Aurora services.
4. Whoop or Oura Ring on us.
5. $1,500 annual education budget.
6. Whatever tech you need to do your best work.
7. Generous parental leave.
8. Comprehensive health benefits, with 90% coverage including dental and vision.