Founding Product Designer - New York

Product Designer Location: New York, USA Salary: $180,000 Time commitment: 40 hours/week, with opportunity to move full-time Work model: Hybrid (1–2 days/week in office) USA Work Authorization Required About Aurora Aurora is the next‑gen lifestyle operating system for the world’s highest‑performance founders, athletes, and family offices. Our mobile app and agentic OS empowers ultra‑high‑performance individuals and their teams to master relationships, exploration, and longevity across five lifestyle categories: travel, dining, experiences, luxury goods, and longevity. To date, we have: Raised >$4M from Tier‑1 investors 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 Achieved industry‑leading engagement among paying members, with a growing waitlist seeking access Built a proactive, seamless, conversational product frequently described as “magic” by our members We’re now expanding our core product team as we scale both the product and our global membership base. The Product Designer Our core team of 20 is searching for an exceptional Product Designer to help shape Aurora’s mobile app from first principles, working directly with our CTO and Founding Product Lead. Our founding team is made up of Gen Zs and Millennials who are design‑forward and care about exceptional product experience. We want to define a new category of lifestyle operating system. Like finance runs on Stripe's rails, for our members: life runs on Aurora's rails. You’ll design a high‑frequency, multi‑daily‑touch product used by many of the world’s most influential and ambitious individuals, reshaping how they plan, book and manage their lives across travel, dining, experiences, luxury goods & gifting, and longevity across their personal and professional lives. We care about releasing exceptional, high‑leverage products. We are more Apple than Facebook. We are urgent with inputs and pragmatic with outputs. This role is not about executing predefined requirements. We’re looking for someone who can deeply understand the real problems our members face, challenge assumptions, and design the right solutions – from identifying the opportunity to shipping a polished experience. You’ll own product design end‑to‑end: exploring problems, proposing interaction models, validating ideas, and delivering production‑ready designs. You’ll work closely with engineering and product to define what we build, not just how it looks, and help set the bar for usability, clarity, and premium craftsmanship in an always‑on product. The role reports directly to the CTO and has the potential to grow into a senior or executive position spanning design, product, and brand as we scale. Our Principles We’re a hard‑working team of tier‑1 backed and exited operators united by our five core principles: We seek truth We are high‑leverage We are courageous We are owners We believe impossible is an attitude Why Aurora High Leverage 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. Cutting‑Edge AI Work hands‑on with a next‑generation AI system redefining lifestyle management at the highest level, spanning context, recommendation, orchestration and execution. Design the lightest‑weight, highest‑leverage product experience which earns deep engagement, trust, and spend from the most powerful consumer cohort in history. Generationally Defining Play a foundational role in building the Anduril‑Lattice of lifestyle management — a $100bn opportunity at the intersection of technology, luxury and … About the Founders Aurora was founded in 2024 by: Jonah Lowenstein , founder of social e‑commerce app backed by Accel, 20VC, and the co‑founder of Venmo Aurelius Zwick , won Europe’s largest youth entrepreneurship competition at age 16 Dmitry Ogurtsov , director of engineering at conversational AI company exited to ZoomInfo Aurora is chaired by Alex Macdonald , founder of the world’s most successful concierge Velocity Black — exited to Capital One for $300m. To date, we’ve raised $4.6M from Tier‑1 VCs and operators including the founder of Cleo … Experience 5+ years of experience designing digital products, with ownership over shipped consumer experiences Experience working in fast‑moving startup or zero‑to‑one environments Product Design Expertise Strong end‑to‑end product design skills across UX, UI, interaction design, and visual polish … Systems Thinking Experience creating and maintaining design systems, components, and interaction patterns Ensures consistency and scalability across the product User‑Centered Design Proven ability to incorporate user feedback, research insights, and data into design decisions Strong intuition for premium consumer expectations Collaboration & Communication Works closely with engineers and product managers to deliver cohesive, high‑quality outcomes Clearly articulates design rationale and tradeoffs to stakeholders Attention to Detail Exceptional craft and polish Ensures every shipped experience meets a bar fit for the world's highest performers Competitive salary $2,000 Tech & Education budget Holistic lifestyle perks & access opportunities Full health benefits; 90% coverage, including full dental & vision #J-18808-Ljbffr Aurora