Private Client Relationship Manager, Founders School - $400,000/year USD

About the role

This position demands the ability to build and sustain long-term relationships with high-net-worth individuals, particularly those involved in their children's future. It requires managing the entire pipeline of vetted prospective families, guiding them through a rigorous engagement process, and maintaining a warm family ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Managing the entire pipeline of vetted prospective families, transforming each lead into a genuine relationship.
• Organizing events that unite prospective and enrolled families, ranging from broader information sessions to curated dinners and casual gatherings.
• Shepherding families through application and due diligence, clarifying the school model, the guarantee structure, and the educational trajectory.
• Maintaining warmth across the entire family ecosystem, including those deliberating, those enrolled, and those whose younger children will follow.
• Initiating proactive outreach to families, ensuring they receive communication before needing to request it.
• Embodiment of Founders School for these families, constructing the scalable relationship and enrollment framework that enables program operation and expansion.
• Collaborating directly with school leadership on the highest-tier early conversations, establishing the foundational system.

Qualifications

• Authentic comfort and proven effectiveness building relationships with high-net-worth individuals.
• Prior experience in investor relations, private wealth management, private-client sales, luxury hospitality, high-end real estate, or a comparable field.
• Confidence engaging with billionaires, interpreting their individual styles, and operating as a peer rather than subordinate.
• A relationship-centric orientation, not transaction-focused.
• Sufficient organization and initiative to own a pipeline independently.
• Currently residing in or relocating to New York, NY within 60 days.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Benefits

• No commission structure, no quota targets, no aggressive closing tactics.
• Established connections within, or recognized credibility among, NYC high-net-worth communities.
• Authentic conviction in the mission and enthusiasm for articulating it.

Pay

$200 USD/hour, which equates to $400,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year.

Schedule

Full-time (40 hours per week).