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title: 'Founding Product Manager at Aurelian'
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# Founding Product Manager at Aurelian

- **Company:** Aurelian
- **Location:** Seattle, WA
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-06-15
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/aurelian/add5cdef-328f-4e04-a42a-00ceee5e19d6

## Job description

## ABOUT AURELIAN

Aurelian builds AI tools that help 911 centers handle more with less, so telecommunicators can stay focused on what matters most and communities get the response they need.

AVA https://www.aurelian.com/ava is a conversational AI agent that answers non-emergency calls; the agent routes, triages, and resolves the calls without any human intervention. By handling administrative calls like noise complaints, lost dogs, and parking inquiries, AVA eliminates hold times and lets call-takers focus their energy on actual emergencies.

CORA https://www.aurelian.com/cora supports call-takers on the calls that matter most. CORA is an on-screen assistant that delivers real-time SOP checklists, smart reminders, and contextual guidance as an emergency call unfolds, so dispatchers stay calm, consistent, and confident when every second counts. When AVA detects an emergency mid-call, it transfers the caller to a telecommunicator and passes along the caller details, location, incident type, and key statements directly into CORA. The call-taker never starts from scratch.

The problem we're solving is serious. The average emergency communications center is 30% understaffed nationwide. Staffing shortages drive burnout and attrition, which makes the shortage worse. Meanwhile, 60-80% of the calls coming in aren't even emergencies at all. Aurelian addresses both sides of that equation: AVA reduces unnecessary call volume, and CORA makes every emergency call more manageable for the people handling it.

Aurelian is live in centers across the country, answering thousands of non-emergency calls every day, and is backed by New Enterprise Associates https://www.nea.com/blog/aurelian-ai-agents-powering-the-911-call-centers-of-the-future and Y Combinator https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aurelian. Aurelian is growing rapidly; we are hiring people who want to help scale this work and make a real difference in public safety infrastructure for communities across the country.

## WHY JOIN US

Aurelian builds state of the art, multimodal conversational AI systems that help save lives. We work directly with 9-1-1 call centers to modernize emergency response workflows - where reliability, speed, and usability aren’t “nice-to-haves,” they’re mission-critical.

We’re hiring our first Product Manager. This is a high-ownership role: you won’t be handed a tidy roadmap—you’ll define and own a product area end-to-end, partner tightly with the founders and work with customers to turn operational pain into shipped product.

## WHAT YOU’LL BE DOING

- You will own a product area, not a single feature.
- You will help define the roadmap, not execute an existing one - you will talk with customers, founders, and engineers daily to figure out what to build next and do whatever it takes to serve their needs.
- You will work across every business function: You’ll work closely with engineers to prototype and ship products, marketers and AEs to figure out the right angle and pain points to highlight, and implementation specialists to strategize on rollout. Nothing is beyond your scope to drive a product to completion.

## WHO WE’RE LOOKING FOR

- Technical Depth / Engineering Experience: You can engage with engineers as a peer - you’re able to use tools like Codex, Claude Code, etc. to quickly prototype ideas, but understand the additional steps needed to go from prototype to production.
- High Ownership: You take responsibility for outcomes and push things to completion across teams. You are excited to work hard and move fast.
- Customer Obsession: You genuinely like talking to customers constantly and turning those conversations into decisions and shipped product.
- Strong Opinions, Loosely Held: You are strongly opinionated but are comfortable quickly shifting and adapting based on new information when presented with it.

To learn more about what it's like to work at Aurelian, visit our About Us https://www.aurelian.com/about page and follow us on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/company/aureliansystem to stay up to date!

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet every qualification listed above. We believe exceptional people come from many different backgrounds, and we’d rather connect with you than miss the opportunity.

Come do the best work of your life and join us in shaping the future of critical technology that truly matters.

FOR FULL-TIME ROLES, AURELIAN OFFERS A VARIETY OF BENEFITS, INCLUDING:

- Comprehensive Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance
- 401(k)
- Unlimited PTO
- Company-wide offsites
- Equipment stipend
- Relocation assistance
- Daily delivered lunches (on us)
- Office in Seattle
- Start-up Equity

## About Aurelian

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Aurelian builds AI tools that help 911 centers automate non-emergency calls and provide real-time guidance to telecommunicators during emergencies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Backed by Y Combinator and NEA)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, WA, USA
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Max Keenan (CEO), James Liu (CTO)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Government technology (GovTech) / Public safety
- **Target customers**: Public Safety Answering Points (PSAPs) and emergency communications centers across the United States (B2G)
- **Mission**: Make every call better for telecommunicators and the communities they serve.

## Products & Services
- **AVA**: A conversational AI agent that answers non-emergency calls (noise complaints, lost dogs, parking inquiries) autonomously – routes, triages, and resolves calls without human intervention. Integrates with existing CAD and phone systems.
- **CORA**: An on-screen assistant for telecommunicators that delivers real-time SOP checklists, smart reminders, and contextual guidance during emergency calls. Captures caller details, location, and incident type, passing them seamlessly from AVA.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available
- **Key Metric**: 53 employees (LinkedIn, as of early 2025) with 528.6% yearly headcount growth; trained on thousands of non-emergency calls daily
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Y Combinator (Summer 2022 batch), New Enterprise Associates (NEA)
- **Growth Signals**: 13 active job postings; rapid hiring across engineering, sales, and implementation; expanding presence in US 911 centers

## Competitive Advantages
- Purpose-built for emergency communications (not a general-purpose AI platform)
- Reduces non-emergency call volume by 60–80%, directly addressing nationwide 30% understaffing in PSAPs
- Integrates alongside existing CAD/phone systems – no rip-and-replace
- Self-healing call routing continuously improves accuracy
- Real-time SOP guidance reduces cognitive load and improves consistency during emergencies

## Strategic Focus
- Scaling deployments across US 911 centers
- Hiring aggressively in engineering, product, and go-to-market roles
- Building deeper integrations with public safety infrastructure
- Growing the team to meet demand while maintaining mission-driven culture

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Fast-growing startup with a meaningful mission – improving public safety and helping telecommunicators focus on emergencies. Described as a place where “every call matters.”
- **Work Policy**: In-office in Seattle, WA (headquarters) – collaborative environment for a tightly-knit team.
- **Perks**: Competitive compensation – posted salaries for senior roles range from $150K–$240K (Staff Backend Engineer: $180K–$240K); opportunity to work on high-impact AI in a critical industry.
- **Engineering Culture**: Emphasis on building reliable, real-time systems that fit real workflows; ownership over products that save lives.

## Sources
1. [aurelian.com](https://www.aurelian.com/)
2. [aurelian.com/careers](https://www.aurelian.com/careers)
3. [ycombinator.com](https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/aurelian)
4. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/aurelian)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/aureliansystem)

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