Founder Coach, Founders School - $250,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Guide and inspire a group of student founders through structured weekly one-on-one sessions, daily accountability touchpoints, and team stand-ups that ensure consistent, measurable advancement.
• Maintain exceptionally high performance standards while delivering the encouragement and accountability necessary for students to push through barriers and continue building.
• Track student development via FounderOS, recognize when learners encounter roadblocks, and facilitate introductions to mentors, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, or resources that expedite progress.
• Contribute to developing the culture, rituals, workshops, events, and operational cadence of an elite entrepreneurial high school environment.
• Accompany students on multiple trips annually 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 plans for students.
• Delivering conventional academic instruction or evaluating traditional coursework.
• Tolerating mediocre effort from students who possess the capacity for outstanding achievement.
• Facilitating sessions beyond your domain of competence or depending on one-size-fits-all entrepreneurial guidance.
• Operating within an inflexible institutional framework where administrative overhead undermines impactful student development.

Basic Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of leadership or high-impact experience in a startup or high-growth company.
• Solid business acumen and the confidence to interact with early-stage founders while understanding when to bring in specialized experts.
• Proven capacity to coach, inspire, and maintain accountability among high-performing individuals.
• Regular, practical experience leveraging AI to enhance work quality and efficiency.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building capabilities with students, families, mentors, and founders.
• 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

• Laundered or helped launch a company.
• Background in coaching, mentoring, or managing programs for teenagers or young adults.
• Developed network of founders, investors, operators, or mentors.
• Experience at early-stage startups where you routinely handled responsibilities across diverse functions.

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.