About the Role
Aurora is seeking a full-time Membership Director to manage member relations from initial contact through renewal. This role involves designing and owning a high-performance business development and account management function, reporting directly to the CEO. It offers the potential for rapid growth into senior leadership and a central role in building a high-impact business development function and an unparalleled network.
Responsibilities
- Own Aurora’s member business development funnel
- Actively source and convert new members through your network
- Translate high-signal engagement with Aurora into conversions and renewals
- Represent Aurora directly with members
- Engage with prospects and members personally during their first interactions
- Support their conversion journey
- Identify opportunities to improve the funnel
- Ensure each conversion experience reflects Aurora’s standards
- Develop and manage channel partnerships
- Build and maintain relationships with aligned partners, communities, and networks
- Create high-signal events and collaborations
- Design and execute proprietary events and cultural collaborations
- Build the long-term playbook and team
- Create the playbook for a world-class member relations function
- Hire, train, and lead a high-performance onboarding, conversion, and retention team
Requirements
- Ideally have a deep familiarity with and existing relationships within elite networks, founder communities, athlete and creative circles, family offices, or similar high-signal ecosystems
- Well connected in at least one of New York, Miami, or Los Angeles
- Excel at identifying, building, and nurturing relationships in high-performance networks
- Turn introductions or chance encounters into meaningful, trusting, long-term relationships
- Manage multiple partnerships, events, and communication streams without losing attention to detail
- Prioritize the highest-leverage opportunities
- Use metrics such as lead volume, engagement patterns, conversion rates, and member behaviors to identify areas of improvement and continuously improve performance
- Operate autonomously, identify what needs to happen, and drive outcomes without waiting for direction
- Bring solutions, iterate quickly, and communicate confidently under scrutiny
Skills
- Business development
- Account management
- Partnerships
- Community events
- Activations
- Member relations
- Relationship building
- Persuasion
- Operations
- Data analysis
Location
- New York, USA
Work Type
- Full-time
- Onsite (with flexible remote days)
Experience Level
- Early team
- Founding team
Salary/Compensations
- $120,000 base + $120k bonus with uncapped upside
- On Target First-Year Earnings: $240,000
- Example stretch case: $360,000
Benefits
- Meaningful equity
- International and intra-US relocation packages available
- Founding stock options package
- Access to exclusive Aurora events and services
- Whoop or Oura Ring on us
- $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 AI-native Lifestyle Operating System for the world's highest performers.
- A proactive, conversational lifestyle management product relied on by the world's top founders, athletes, and creatives to advise, execute, and manage their travel, dining, wellness, experiences, and gifting globally.
- Over half our members use every single day, 95% every week, and in our first 6 months, member spend & engagement is outperforming industry benchmarks by 5×.
- Aurora is backed and chaired by Alex Macdonald, the most successful founder in this category, and has raised $9M from experienced operators and tier-1 investors.
- We are now expanding the founding engineering team as we scale the product and the member base.
- Aurora is built in person from our offices in London, New York, and Los Angeles.
- The engineering team works from our London office in Belgravia, with flexible remote days.
- We’re a deeply committed team of tier-1 backed and exited operators united by our five core principles: We seek truth, We are high-leverage, We are owners, We believe impossible is an attitude.
- Design a daily-use product placed directly in the hands of the world’s most ambitious individuals and organizations - empowering them to compound their time, relationships, and global impact.
- Work hands-on with a next-generation AI system redefining lifestyle management at the highest level, spanning context, recommendation, orchestration, and execution.
- Design an ultra-lightweight, ultra-high-leverage product experience that consistently wins the engagement, trust, and spend of the most powerful consumer cohort in history.
- Play a foundational role in building the future of high-performance lifestyle management - a $100bn opportunity at the intersection of technology, luxury, and longevity.
- Aurora was founded in 2024 by Jonah Lowenstein, Aurelius Zwick, and Dmitry Ogurtsov.
- Aurora is chaired by Alex Macdonald, founder of the world’s most successful concierge - exited to Capital One for $300m.
- To date, we’ve raised $9M from Tier-1 VCs 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.
