In this episode of Reimagining Company Culture, we’re chatting with Dan Smolkin, Head of People Operations at Aurora Solar. Since joining in early 2019, Aurora has grown from 45 employees in San Francisco to more than 250 team members distributed across the United States and Canada.

Dan Smolkin is the Head of People Operations for Aurora Solar, a platform focused on enabling a clean energy future for all. Since joining in early 2019, Aurora has grown from 45 employees in San Francisco to more than 250 team members distributed across the United States and Canada. Prior to Aurora, Dan has been both an HR tech startup founder and practitioner. Dan started working in HR at Quixey, a search technology company, as the 9th employee, and was responsible for building the People function as the company onboarded more than 250 employees globally. He believes strongly in taking an open source approach to People Operations by actively sharing and building useful tools for other HR professionals and advises several startups on forward-thinking people strategies.