Founder Success Manager, Founders School - $250,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Provide direct coaching and motivation to a cohort of student founders via weekly one-on-one sessions, daily progress check-ins, and team stand-ups designed to ensure continuous, quantifiable advancement.
• Maintain an exceptionally high standard for execution while delivering the guidance and accountability necessary for students to work through challenges and continue building.
• Track student progress using FounderOS, detect when students encounter roadblocks, and facilitate connections to mentors, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, or additional resources that drive momentum.
• Contribute to the development of school culture, rituals, workshops, events, and the daily operational cadence of a premier entrepreneurial high school.
• Accompany students on travel experiences multiple times annually while cultivating enduring relationships with founders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurial families.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Serving as the lead business consultant or formulating venture strategy for students.
• Delivering conventional academic instruction or evaluating traditional coursework.
• Tolerating mediocre effort from students with the capacity for outstanding work.
• Facilitating workshops beyond your core competencies or defaulting to generic entrepreneurial guidance.
• Operating within an inflexible institutional framework where administrative barriers obstruct meaningful impact on student outcomes.

Basic Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years of leadership experience or high-impact contribution within a startup or high-growth business environment.
• Sound business judgment and the confidence to engage meaningfully with early-stage founders, while recognizing when to defer to specialized expertise.
• Proven capacity to coach, inspire, and enforce accountability among high-performing individuals.
• Consistent, daily application of AI tools to enhance both the quality and efficiency of your output.
• Exceptional communication abilities and skill in building relationships with students, families, mentors, and founders.
• Commitment to working full-time on-site in New York City, with periodic travel required throughout the year.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Prior experience founding or co-founding a business.
• Background in coaching, mentoring, or managing programs targeting teenagers or young adults.
• Experience working in early-stage startups with regular cross-functional responsibilities.
• An active network of founders, investors, operators, or mentors.

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.