Founding General Manager

About the role

The role of Founding General Manager is, in every meaningful sense, the role of CEO. You will be the senior leader of Frontier in your city. You will help raise founding capital, assemble and lead a high-performing team, build the culture that defines what Frontier stands for locally, and own the full P&L of your market.

You set the vision. You will build the team that everyone wants to be a part of a leader that shapes talent, builds culture and creates a community and ecosystems your city embraces.

Frontier provides the model, the accreditation, the curriculum, the national platform, and the infrastructure. What no institution can provide from the outside is what you bring: the local relationships, the community trust, the entrepreneurial conviction, and the leadership that turns a national movement into a local institution people are proud to be part of.

What You'll Do

• Represent Frontier’s mission in working to build the next generation of talent for the AI era
• Raise founding capital from foundations, corporate partners, and major donors
• Convene a founding advisory board of civic, philanthropic, and corporate leaders
• Build the employer coalition that anchors the local talent pipeline
• Hire and lead the local team across operations, learner success, employer partnerships, and marketing
• Launch Frontier’s first short courses, micro-credentials, and degree cohorts in your market
• Own full P&L responsibility — revenue, costs, margin, and long-term sustainability of the city hub
• Drive measurable outcomes: job placements, income growth, ventures launched
• Represent Frontier as a thought leader on the local and national stage

What We're Looking For

• 10+ years of senior leadership experience with a mix of entrepreneurial, consulting, operational, and capital-raising responsibilities
• Demonstrated track record of founding, leading, or significantly scaling an organization, business unit, or major initiative — you can point to something you built and name the financial and human impact it had
• Proven ability to mobilize capital: a verifiable history of mobilizing $1M+ around a vision — venture capital raised for a startup, corporate budgets owned and grown, major partnership deals structured, philanthropic capital secured, or board-level resource decisions you led. The category of capital is secondary; the evidence of mobilization is primary
• Conglomerate coalition building and stakeholder management: can convene diverse voices and leaders from education, workforce, philanthropy, civic government, and the private sector around a shared agenda and sustain those relationships over time
• P&L ownership experience: you have built the systems, owned the revenue and the corresponding operations and costs
• Team building experience: you have hired, led, and grown a high-performing team in a fast-moving environment
• Activatable trust capital: a meaningful network you can deploy from day one — either deeply rooted in your city’s civic, philanthropic, and corporate community, or deeply rooted in the technology, AI, and entrepreneurial ecosystem with the relationships to bring Fortune 500 employer partners, applied AI partnerships, and learners into your city. Either profile works.