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.