Founding Video Producer, Founders School - $400,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Independently produce founder-focused content by scripting, shooting, editing, packaging, publishing, and refining videos for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and additional creator platforms.
• Transform founder conversations, student achievements, live events, and unedited footage into narratives that resonate organically with ambitious teenagers and their parents.
• Execute fast-cycle tests on hooks, thumbnails, titles, video formats, editing techniques, posting frequency, and distribution methods to drive organic audience expansion.
• Leverage analytics platforms and AI workflows to enhance content quality, accelerate production timelines, and boost performance with each iteration.
• Develop the creator-driven media system that fuels qualified admissions interest through genuine storytelling instead of paid channels.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Overseeing agencies, production contractors, or staff who handle content creation on your behalf.
• Reviewing and greenlighting creative work from the periphery rather than personally executing high-impact content.
• Operating within a traditional school marketing, enterprise brand initiative, or maintaining scheduled social media posts.
• Pursuing superficial engagement metrics or depending on paid media instead of cultivating organic audience development.
• Allocating time to strategy meetings about content rather than actively producing it.

Basic Requirements

• Documented experience in one of these areas:
• Independently grew an audience from zero to millions as a creator or as an early contributor on a creator team, or
• Operated hands-on within a top-tier founder-driven content operation with direct accountability for content production and audience expansion.
• A portfolio containing 2–3 examples of content you personally filmed, edited, packaged, and published with verifiable organic results.
• Proven ability to articulate your specific role in audience growth using data such as subscribers, followers, watch time, engagement, shares, or views.
• Advanced hands-on proficiency in scripting, filming, editing, packaging, publishing, and refining creator-focused video content.
• Strong intuition for founder-driven narratives and platform-specific content formats.
• Routine use of AI tools to expedite research, scripting, editing, repurposing, or performance enhancement.
• Currently based in, or prepared to relocate 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 companies.
• Track record launching a media brand or channel from the ground up.
• Strong grasp of what appeals to ambitious teenagers and aspiring young entrepreneurs.
• Ability to convert analytics insights 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.