Founding Content Creator, Founders School - $400,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Transform founder discussions, student narratives, event footage, and unprocessed material into engaging stories that ambitious teenagers and parents organically choose to watch and distribute.
• Execute fast-paced tests with hooks, thumbnails, titles, formats, editing techniques, publishing frequency, and distribution methods to drive organic audience expansion.
• Apply analytics platforms and AI resources to enhance content caliber, production velocity, and outcome metrics with each new release.
• Construct the creator-driven media system that fuels qualified admissions interest through genuine storytelling.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Oversee agencies, production contractors, or teams tasked with creating content on your behalf.
• Review creative work from the periphery rather than directly producing high-impact content yourself.
• Execute traditional school marketing, corporate branding initiatives, or maintain scheduled social media posts.
• Pursue superficial engagement numbers or depend on paid advertising rather than cultivate organic audience development.
• Allocate time to meetings about content rather than actively producing it.

Founding Content Creator Key Responsibilities

Independently establish Founders School's creator-driven media infrastructure to produce 5,000 qualified inbound admissions inquiries during the initial 12 months via high-impact, founder-centered content.

Basic Requirements

• Verified experience in one of these categories:
  • Independently grew an audience from zero to millions as a creator or served as an early team member of a creator operation, or
  • Contributed directly within a premier founder-led content operation with documented responsibility for content production and audience expansion.
• A portfolio containing 2–3 content pieces you personally filmed, edited, packaged, and released with quantifiable organic results.
• Confirmed capacity to articulate your individual impact on audience growth through metrics including subscribers, followers, watch time, engagement, shares, or views.
• Advanced hands-on proficiency in scripting, filming, editing, packaging, publishing, and refining creator-driven video material.
• Strong intuition for founder narratives and platform-optimized content development.
• Regular application of AI tools to expedite research, scripting, editing, repurposing, or performance enhancement.
• Currently based in, or prepared to move to, New York, NY within 60 days.
• Eligible to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background producing content for entrepreneurs, startup founders, or creator-driven enterprises.
• Track record launching a media brand or channel from the ground up.
• Comprehensive knowledge of what engages ambitious teenagers and young entrepreneurs.
• Proven ability converting analytics into scalable content frameworks.

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.