About the Role
Aurora is seeking a Head of Growth to lead the end-to-end expansion of its member community. This role involves defining and executing a D2C growth strategy across multiple channels to attract, convert, and grow the accounts of high-value customers. The position offers the opportunity to establish a definitive product in a growing market and build a team of specialist executors.
Responsibilities
- Report directly to the CEO and own engagement and conversion strategy across all touchpoints.
- Define and own a multi-channel growth strategy that magnetizes and retains the world's most valuable customers within Aurora's ecosystem.
- Lead Aurora's external content strategy and execution across social, editorial, in-person, and specialist distribution channels.
- Own the strategy and oversee the execution of Aurora events, experiences, and brand activations, ensuring they reinforce our narrative and cultural position while driving conversions, engagement, and renewals.
- Own conversions and renewals, ensuring Aurora curates the highest-signal community of athletes, creatives, and founders globally.
- Build and manage a team of specialist executors, own the growth budget, and define KPIs across the function.
Requirements
- Exceptional ability to identify a company's core growth drivers and think across physical, digital, media, partnership, community, and product-led channels.
- Ability to manage both digital and human-led growth mechanics as part of a defined funnel.
- Build high-leverage functions that prize conviction & trust over reach.
- Exceptional taste, aesthetics, and copywriting ability with a deep understanding of the customer, culture, and mentality of our market.
- Exceptional pulse on cultural moments and what makes things stand out.
- Ability to turn taste into a repeatable engine, converting brand instinct into an actionable, repeatable strategy that builds trust, magnetism, and intrigue.
- Strong understanding of and instinct for modern distribution channels: how products and ideas travel across social, cultural, and niche channels to reach high-value audiences.
- Build narrative and objectives into every touchpoint.
- Build autonomous systems that discover, test, and act on new growth strategies.
- Ruthless execution, diligent planning and research, and tasteful curation.
- Exceptional organization skills for managing complex budgets, timelines, briefs, and strategies.
- Ability to hit deadlines and objectives on time.
- Track, assess, and act on both qualitative and quantitative performance metrics.
- Work cross-functionally with product, operations, and partnerships to maximize Aurora's access, member experience, and opportunities.
- Ability to withstand scrutiny and hold conviction, with the confidence to make asks and drive an agenda working directly alongside the CEO.
- Hungry, learn fast, and believe in seeking truth above all else.
- Proven track record of growing products, services, or initiatives among niche communities with exceptional results.
- Press relationships and an organic network amongst premium or luxury communities, services, or potential growth partners (Bonus).
Skills
- D2C growth strategy
- Multi-channel growth strategy
- Content strategy and execution
- Social media marketing
- Editorial content
- Partnership management
- Community building
- Event management
- Brand activation
- Conversion optimization
- Renewal strategy
- Budget management
- KPI definition
- Digital marketing
- Product-led growth
- Copywriting
- Cultural trend analysis
- Performance metrics analysis
- Cross-functional collaboration
Location
- Manhattan, New York
Work Type
- In-office
- Flexible remote days
- Domestic travel
- International travel
Experience Level
- Head of Growth
- Proven track record of growing products, services, or initiatives
Salary/Compensations
- $240,000 on-target first-year earnings ($120k base + $120k bonus with up to 2x multiplier)
Benefits
- 0.5–1% Equity
- Visa O-1 / H-1B sponsorship, where applicable
- International and intra-US relocation packages available
- Competitive salary + performance-based bonus
- Founding stock options package
- Access to exclusive Aurora events and services
- Whoop or Oura Ring on us, plus subscription to a private longevity offering
- $2,000 annual education budget
- Whatever tech you need to do your best work
- Generous parental leave
- Comprehensive health benefits, with 90% coverage including dental and vision
About the Company
- Aurora is the Lifestyle Operating System for the new era of high-performance living.
- Aurora combines AI and human expertise to proactively inspire and manage the global lifestyles of the world's most influential athletes, founders, and creatives.
- We proactively curate and deliver on-demand dining, travel, experiences and entertainment, luxury goods and gifting, and longevity and wellness.
- We're backed by the most successful founder in the space, ever.
- Raised $12m from a group of founders, operators, investors, and athletes behind companies including OpenAI, Cleo, VistaJet, Wander, Flex, Salido, and Boost Capital Partners — alongside Kevin Love, Kyle Kuzma, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall, Koro Capital, Insiders VC, EQT, Antler, and several high-signal operators and family offices.
- Achieved industry-leading engagement, transaction volumes, and referrals from paying members, with a large and growing waitlist seeking access.
- Built a proactive, conversational product described as 'magic' by our members.
- We're now building our growth function as we expand our member base globally.
- We have offices in London, New York, and LA - and are proud of our in-person culture.
