The Role
Founding People Ops Lead owns end-to-end recruiting, onboarding, payroll inputs, benefits, HR compliance, office setup and day-to-day operations in Barcelona, finance ops coordination with external bookkeeper, and building internal AI agents to automate sourcing and recurring workflows.
Summary Generated by Built In
Help change one of the largest global industries: insurance brokerage.
Afori's vision is to ensure every human has the right cover at the right time. Our founders previously built insurance unicorn wefox and are now building the AI layer for insurance brokers: agents that plug directly into brokers' daily workflows and take over the back-office work that eats more than 60% of their time. We already save brokers over 2.5 hours a day, freeing them up to do what actually grows the business: advising customers well.
The opportunity is massive: the global protection gap is €1.3 trillion, and insurance distribution still runs on manual processes. Sequoia recently mapped AI-native services opportunities and ranked insurance brokerage first, a $140-200B market. We raised a €4M pre-seed led by General Catalyst, backed by investors and operators including Mustafa Suleyman (CEO, Microsoft AI) and Alex Rinke (Co-CEO, Celonis)
You'll be our first dedicated People & Operations hire, a true founding role. You own everything from the first recruiting touchpoint to the moment someone walks into our (new!) office, plus day-to-day finance operations. Your main focus: people and recruiting.
- Recruiting (your #1 priority): Own our hiring engine end-to-end: sourcing, pipeline, candidate experience, offers, closing.
- People Ops: Onboarding, contracts, payroll inputs and salary payouts, compensation, benefits, and HR compliance. Help build high-performance teams through team design, goal-setting, and feedback culture.
- Office: Lead the search for our new Barcelona office (one of your first projects), run it day-to-day, and greet new joiners and guests at the front desk as the face of Afori.
- Finance Ops: Pay bills, chase and organize receipts, and be the main interface to our external bookkeeper.
- Build your AI agent team: Set up agents as your first "hires" to handle sourcing, screening, receipt-chasing, and recurring workflows. We build agents for our customers and run on them ourselves.
- 2+ years in people ops, recruiting, or generalist operations.
- Startup experience strongly preferred. Ideally you've been through the zero-to-one phase before: joining a company early, building processes from scratch, and figuring things out without a playbook.
- A hands-on owner: organized, reliable, and discreet with sensitive information.
- Warm and people-first: a recruiter at heart and the first face many people see.
- Comfortable with numbers and financial admin (no accounting degree needed).
- Excited to work AI-native and build your own agent team.
- Fluent in English; Spanish a strong plus, German a plus.
- Competitive salary + team bonus pool + equity (4-year vesting, 1-year cliff).
- Office-first culture in the heart of Barcelona, 24 days annual leave + public holidays.
- Learning budget, team events, and a true Dream Team culture.
Speed matters to us. With the right person, we can run the whole process in under two weeks.
- Intro call with Felix, founding team member
- Interview with Fabian, our CEO & Co-Founder
- Interview with Sergi, our Co-Founder & CTO
- Paid one-day trial with us in the Barcelona office
If it's a fit on both sides, you'll have an offer shortly after the trial day.
Sound like you? Apply with your CV and a few lines on why this founding role excites you.
Skills Required
- 3+ years in people ops, recruiting, or generalist operations
- Hands-on owner: organized, reliable, discreet with sensitive information
- Strong recruiting skills: sourcing, pipeline management, candidate experience, offers and closing
- Comfortable with numbers and financial admin (payroll inputs, paying bills, receipts)
- Excited to work AI-native and build internal agent workflows
- Fluent in English
- Spanish (strong plus)
- German (a plus)
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The Company
What We Do
Afori develops an AI platform for insurance brokers that automates routine back-office tasks and streamlines workflows, aiming to reduce administrative workload and improve operational efficiency.
