--- title: 'Founding People Ops Lead at Afori' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/founding-people-ops-lead-afori-barcelona-9cb6skr74tpp' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-10' --- # Founding People Ops Lead at Afori - **Company:** Afori - **Location:** Barcelona, Spain - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** onsite - **Posted:** 2026-07-25 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10 - **Apply:** https://jobs.gem.com/afori/am9icG9zdDoL77HU3wvTPLmYuiLDhClp ## Job description 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](https://sequoiacap.com/article/services-the-new-software) 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 ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Afori builds an AI platform that automates administrative and back-office tasks for insurance brokers, starting with email inbox management and tariff comparisons. - **Entity Type**: Private – raised a Seed round (EUR 4M, Oct 2025) and a Pre-Seed round (USD 4.6M, Nov 2025) led by General Catalyst. - **Headquarters**: Barcelona, Spain - **Founded**: 2025 - **Founders**: Fabian Wesemann (CEO) and Sergi Baños (CTO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry/industries**: Insurance technology (InsurTech), AI-powered workflow automation, productivity software - **Target customers**: Insurance brokers (B2B) – specifically their back-office and administrative teams - **Mission or purpose statement**: To give brokers more time for client advisory by reducing their administrative workload through AI; to help brokers continue fulfilling their social role of helping people protect themselves. ## Products & Services - **Afori AI Inbox Agent**: An AI agent integrated with Outlook that reads emails, understands insurance terms and processes, and transforms unstructured communications into structured workflows (tasks, checks, filings). - **Tariff Comparison Agent**: Automatically compares legacy and new tariffs from policy documents, surfacing differences that matter to the client. - **AI Assistant for Insurance Brokers**: Combines a proprietary insurance database (34d, GDV data, legislation) with a broker’s own cases to deliver context-appropriate answers and redact sensitive data. - **General AI Agents**: Specialised agents for repetitive office tasks (emails, customer inquiries, document checks) that learn from the broker’s behaviour without setup or training. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (recent early-stage startup) - **Key Metric**: Total funding – EUR 4M Seed (Oct 2025) + USD 4.6M Pre-Seed (Nov 2025) = approximately USD 9M+ combined; also a prior round of EUR 4M. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: General Catalyst led the Pre-Seed round; the Seed round included 9 investors (not named in the data). The platform connects to “MVP” systems (German insurance industry standard). - **Growth Signals**: Founded in 2025, already 15 employees distributed across Spain, Germany, UK, and Japan (LinkedIn). Active hiring for founding-level roles (Senior Product Manager, Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer, Summer Internship 2026). ## Competitive Advantages - **Insurance-specific AI**: Afori’s database is “filled with insurance-specific knowledge: 34d, tariffs, GDV data, and relevant legislation” – a niche moat. - **GDPR & ISO 27001 certified**: Hosted exclusively in the EU, data processing is documented and verifiable, critical for trust in regulated insurance markets. - **Pragmatic, broker-built**: Co-founders each have 10+ years in insurance (Fabian at wefox, Sergi as first engineer at wefox), and the team includes licensed insurance brokers. - **Zero-setup adaptation**: “Afori learns your way of working and takes on more with every process. Entirely without setup or training.” ## Strategic Focus - **Current priorities**: Automating the highest-friction back-office tasks (email inbox, tariff comparison); expanding AI agents to cover more broker workflows; scaling the team with founding and senior talent across engineering and product. - **Direction for growth**: Enabling AI-assisted brokers to serve more clients with personalised advice, while reducing administrative burden; continued expansion into European markets (already has a presence in Germany, UK, Japan). ## Why Work Here - **Culture highlights**: Early-stage startup where new hires are “founding” team members; strong emphasis on pragmatic, service-driven engineering and solving real problems for brokers. Team includes experienced founders who have built companies before, engineers from Amazon, AI researchers, and Wharton graduates. - **Remote/hybrid policy**: Hybrid workspace – employees combine remote and on-site work; typical time on-site in Barcelona, Spain. - **Notable perks or engineering culture**: Opportunity to shape AI agents from the ground up; involvement in context engineering, RAG, microservice orchestration; summer internship tracks in knowledge systems, website redesign, and automation processes. The company is “pragmatic, service-driven, built with and for brokers.” ## Sources 1. [afori.com/en/](https://www.afori.com/en/) 2. [afori.com/en/ressourcen/uber-uns](https://www.afori.com/en/ressourcen/uber-uns) 3. [linkedin.com/company/afori-ai](https://linkedin.com/company/afori-ai) 4. [builtin.com/company/afori/jobs](https://builtin.com/company/afori/jobs) 5. [builtin.com/company/afori](https://builtin.com/company/afori) ## Other roles at Afori - [Founding Senior ML Engineer](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-senior-ml-engineer-afori-barcelona-4vtj2j1maxqk) — Barcelona, Spain - [Business Manager Deutschschweiz](https://feeny.ai/job/business-manager-deutschschweiz-afori-aarau-axczr571gzkc) — Aarau, Switzerland - [Broker Deployment Lead](https://feeny.ai/job/broker-deployment-lead-afori-barcelona-051dxx4hw4rw) — Barcelona, Spain - [Senior NodeJS Backend Engineer (Context Engineering)](https://feeny.ai/job/senior-nodejs-backend-engineer-context-engineering-afori-barcelona-ngpjzqs9e6vt) — Barcelona, Spain - [AI Associate Insurance (Praktikum/Internship)](https://feeny.ai/job/ai-associate-insurance-praktikum-internship-afori-barcelona-tt9svkkqmm37) — Barcelona, Spain - [Founding Senior Product Manager](https://feeny.ai/job/founding-senior-product-manager-afori-barcelona-j3sg8za5xrzj) — Barcelona, Spain