Startup Coach, Founders School - $250,000/year USD

Your Role

You won't deliver traditional lessons or dictate how students should operate their ventures. Instead, you'll coach a cohort of young founders daily, keeping them accountable, helping them navigate setbacks, and ensuring they maintain momentum when entrepreneurship becomes challenging. You'll recognize when to push them, when to support them, and when to introduce them to the appropriate mentor or resource.

The Curriculum

• Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
• Founders Network
• Curriculum developed by Founders School

What You Will Be Doing

• Coach and inspire a cohort of student founders through weekly 1:1 sessions, daily check-ins, and group stand-ups that ensure measurable forward progress.
• Maintain an exceptionally high standard for execution while delivering the support and accountability students require to push through obstacles and continue building.
• Track student progress using FounderOS, recognize when students hit roadblocks, and link them with mentors, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, or other resources that speed their development.
• Contribute to building the culture, traditions, workshops, events, and daily operational rhythm of a world-class entrepreneurial high school.
• Travel with students multiple times per year while cultivating enduring relationships with founders, investors, operators, and entrepreneurial families.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Serving as the primary startup advisor or creating business strategy for students.
• Delivering traditional academic classes or evaluating coursework.
• Tolerating mediocre effort from students capable of exceptional work.
• Leading workshops beyond your domain of expertise or depending on generic startup guidance.
• Operating within a rigid educational system where bureaucracy obstructs meaningful student outcomes.

Basic Requirements

• At least 3 years of leadership or high-impact experience within a startup or high-growth business.
• Strong business judgment and the ability to confidently engage with early-stage founders while knowing when to involve subject matter experts.
• Demonstrated ability to coach, motivate, and hold high-performing individuals accountable.
• Daily, hands-on experience using AI to improve the quality and speed of your work.
• Outstanding communication and relationship-building skills with students, families, mentors, and founders.
• Willingness to work full-time on-site in New York City, with occasional travel throughout the year.
• Authorization to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Founded or co-founded a business.
• Experience coaching, mentoring, or leading programs for teenagers or young adults.
• Experience in early-stage startups where you regularly operated across multiple functions.
• An established network of founders, investors, operators, or mentors.

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.