Founding People Ops Lead

Barcelona, Spain·Full-time·Added 1 month ago

Afori

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What they offer

Full-time hours
Per the ad.

What they ask for

Have the right to work in Spain
Afori doesn't mention sponsorship in the ad.
Work in English
English is required, per the ad.
Work on-site in Barcelona
No relocation package mentioned.

The role

Help change one of the largest global industries: insurance brokerage.

About Us

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)

Your Impact

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.

What You'll Do:

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.

Who You Are:

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.

What We Offer

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.

The Process

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.

About Afori

Afori is an insurance technology company that provides an AI platform specifically for insurance brokers. Its platform automates back-office tasks such as tariff comparison, coverage questions, and document review, and integrates with tools like Outlook. The company emphasizes GDPR compliance and ISO 27001:2022 certification, with data processed exclusively within the EU.

Afori has a presence in Barcelona, Spain, where it is hiring for roles including AI Associate, Broker Deployment Lead, Founding Senior Product Manager, Founding People Ops Lead, Founding Senior ML Engineer, and Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer. The company's website is available in German, suggesting a focus on the German-speaking market, but its Spanish office indicates a growing international footprint. For international professionals, the company offers roles in AI, engineering, and product development within a startup-like environment.

Industry: Insurance Technology
Headquarters: Barcelona, Spain
In Spain: Barcelona
Website: afori.com

Good to know if you are moving

Afori is headquartered in Barcelona, Spain, and is hiring for multiple founding-level roles in the city.
The company's AI platform is tailored for insurance brokers, automating back-office tasks like tariff comparison and coverage questions.
Afori emphasizes GDPR compliance and ISO 27001:2022 certification, with all data processed within the EU.
The company's website is primarily in German, indicating a strong focus on the German-speaking insurance market.
Open roles include engineering, product management, and people operations positions, suggesting a growing startup team.

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