Entrepreneurship Program Director, Founders School - $250,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Mentor and drive a group of student entrepreneurs through regular 1:1 sessions, daily touchpoints, and collective stand-ups that ensure continuous, quantifiable advancement.
• Maintain exceptionally demanding performance standards while delivering the guidance and accountability students require to navigate challenges and continue building.
• Track student development via FounderOS, recognize when students encounter roadblocks, and facilitate connections to mentors, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, or additional resources that catalyze their advancement.
• Contribute to establishing the culture, rituals, programming, gatherings, and operational cadence of an elite entrepreneurial secondary school.
• Accompany students on multiple annual trips while cultivating enduring relationships with founders, investors, business operators, and entrepreneurial families.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Serving as the lead startup advisor or crafting business strategies for students.
• Crafting conventional academic instruction or evaluating traditional coursework.
• Tolerating mediocre output from students with the capacity for excellence.
• Facilitating workshops beyond your specialized knowledge or defaulting to superficial startup guidance.
• Operating within an inflexible educational bureaucracy where administrative processes obstruct substantive student progress.

Basic Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years in leadership or high-impact roles at a startup or rapidly scaling organization.
• Sound business acumen and the capacity to engage credibly with early-stage entrepreneurs while understanding when to engage specialized experts.
• Proven capability to mentor, inspire, and maintain demanding standards with high-achieving individuals.
• Regular, practical application of AI to enhance your work's quality and efficiency.
• Excellent communication and relationship-development abilities with students, families, mentors, and entrepreneurs.
• Commitment to full-time, in-person work in New York City, including periodic travel during the year.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Llaunched or co-launched a company.
• Background in coaching, mentoring, or directing programs serving teenagers or emerging adults.
• Active network including founders, investors, business operators, or mentors.
• Background in early-stage ventures where you frequently worked across diverse functional areas.

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.