Accelerator Program Manager, Founders School - $200,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Propel daily execution and momentum across your assigned student group through standups, coaching, and accountability frameworks.
• Deliver weekly 1:1 coaching and daily check-ins that enable students to navigate obstacles and sustain forward motion.
• Track student performance in FounderOS, detect stalled progress early, and bring in support resources as necessary.
• Link students with mentors, founders, operators, and opportunities that speed up their development.
• Lead workshops, events, and community programming that deepen culture and elevate performance expectations.
• Demonstrate practical AI application and guide students in integrating AI into their businesses, workflows, and decision-making.
• Accompany students on 3-4 school trips annually.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering in-depth strategic business consulting as students develop their ventures.
• Tolerating performance beneath a student's proven capability.
• Instructing academic subjects.
• Facilitating workshops beyond your expertise.
• Offering generic resources or connections that fail to meet Founders School standards.

Basic Requirements

• 3+ years in leadership roles or high-impact individual contributor positions within startups, growth-stage companies, or similarly rigorous environments.
• Comfort engaging in entrepreneurial discussions and knowing when to involve specialized expertise.
• A unique strength beyond coaching: workshop facilitation, event design, content creation, community building, relationship development, or another equally impactful skill.
• The capacity to capture the attention of ambitious teenagers and build an environment they're eager to join.
• The skill to deliver challenging feedback in ways that boost motivation and performance.
• Daily use of AI tools with concrete examples of how AI enhances your output.
• Willingness to work on-site in New York City (relocation assistance available).
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Founded or co-founded a business.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, or managing programs for teenagers or young adults.
• An established network of founders, operators, investors, or mentors.
• Early-stage startup experience wearing multiple hats and creating systems from the ground up.

About Founders School

Founders School is a four-year high school built for ambitious students who want to create, build, and solve meaningful problems. The program combines Alpha School's elite academics, real-world experience, and mentorship from world-class entrepreneurs around three commitments to every student: Build a million-dollar business. Identify problems in the world worth solving. Master AI before adults do. This is a place for people who'd rather build the thing than manage the thing. We're hiring the founding team that builds the dream high school for the most entrepreneurial and ambitious students in the country. Launching in NYC Fall 2026.

Working with us

• This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position.
• The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record.
• The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year.
• The payment period is weekly.
• Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.