People & Operations Manager

Aureus Group Pte. Ltd.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 78,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Aureus Group Pte. Ltd. is seeking a strategic People Ops leader to design and run systems that keep a founder-led company accountable to its priorities. You will drive end-to-end projects and adapt as the business scales from Singapore HQ.

The role focuses on performance management, employee ownership, OKR discipline, leadership cadence, and cross-functional initiatives across 400+ teachers and 30 centres. Based in Singapore, close to senior leadership.

Qualifications

• 4–5 years designing and rolling out performance management and levelling systems.
• Backgrounds in people strategy, chief of staff, programme or project management, or multi-site operations.
• Excellent communication and high emotional intelligence.

Responsibilities

• Design and roll out a multi-tier performance management and career progression system.
• Build and communicate company-wide employee equity programmes.
• Track OKRs and KPIs with clear ownership and regular reporting.
• Maintain leadership cadence with structured 1:1s and check-ins.
• Lead cross-functional projects across benefits, culture and engagement.
• Support senior searches and candidate management.

Skills

Systems thinking

Communication skills

Emotional intelligence

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Founded in September 2013, the Aureus Group has revolutionised music education in Singapore. Aureus Academy is Singapore's fastest-growing private music school chain, teaching over 17,000 active students with 400+ full-time teachers across a network of 30 centres in Singapore and 3 centres in the United Arab Emirates. We are founder-led and profitable. Our mission is to give every student their own way into music - matched with the right teacher, so it becomes something they carry for life.

Our proprietary curriculum, Aureus Interactive, teaches music through immersive storytelling rather than traditional method books. It is the product behind our next chapter: expansion into the United States and the Middle East, with the first US centres slated to open in 2027. International scale calls for IPO-grade infrastructure - the goal-setting, performance and ownership systems this role is here to build.

The Role

This isn't a conventional HR or People Ops role. You'll sit close to senior leadership, design and run the systems that keep a fast-moving, founder-led company accountable to its own priorities, and see projects through end to end. The scope will shift as the company's needs do.

You will be based at our Singapore headquarters in Kallang.

Your Scope of Work

• Performance and career progression. Design and roll out a multi-tier performance management and career progression system for our frontline teaching and centre teams, and carry it through to communication and adoption, so everyone can see where they are, what comes next, and what it takes to get there.
• Employee ownership. Contribute to the build-out of a company-wide employee equity programme, (currently in design), focusing on communications, rollout and education.
• Company-wide OKRs. Help run the tracking behind our OKRs and KPIs - single ownership per goal, regular reporting, real follow-through across the leadership team.
• Leadership cadence. Support a structured cadence of 1:1s and check-ins, keeping a clear record of what was committed to and what shipped, and making trade-offs visible when priorities shift.
• Cross-functional projects. Take point on work with company-wide impact: benefits rollouts, culture and engagement initiatives, and whatever a given quarter demands.
• Hiring. Support senior searches, including direct sourcing and candidate management.

Who You Are

• You think in systems. Give you something messy and undefined, and you can come back with a structure people can follow.
• At least 4 to 5 years helping build performance management and levelling systems - thinking them through, designing them, and getting them rolled out.
• Backgrounds that fit: people strategy, chief of staff, programme or project management, or operations in a multi-site business.
• You genuinely like people. You have the patience and empathy to work closely with 400+ teachers (many of them early in their careers), and you'll spend real time in centres.
• High EQ. You build trust across functions and influence without authority, and you're comfortable moving work forward with people who don't report to you.
• A strong communicator. Much of this job is making things clear to people across different levels and locations.
• Energised, not drained, by a founder-led environment where priorities move quickly.

Nice to Have

• Experience with a large frontline or multi-site workforce - retail, F&B, education, healthcare or fitness.
• Interest in the arts, music, education, or franchise-model businesses.

Compensation

S$7,000 - S$9,000 per month, depending on experience.