Youth Entrepreneurship Program Director, Founders School - $200,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Lead day-to-day execution and forward movement within your assigned student cohort using standups, coaching conversations, and accountability frameworks.
• Facilitate weekly individual coaching meetings and daily progress touchpoints that enable students to navigate challenges and sustain momentum.
• Track student activity within FounderOS, detect slowing progress proactively, and arrange support interventions as necessary.
• Link students with mentors, entrepreneurs, operators, and pathways that speed their development.
• Organize workshops, gatherings, and community initiatives that deepen culture and elevate performance expectations.
• Demonstrate hands-on AI application and guide students in embedding AI tools into their ventures, operations, and decision frameworks.
• Accompany students on 3-4 school trips annually.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering in-depth strategic business advisory as students develop their ventures.
• Tolerating output that sits beneath a student's proven capability.
• Instructing traditional academic coursework.

Basic Requirements

• 3+ years in leadership or high-impact individual contributor positions in startups, scaling ventures, or equivalently rigorous settings.
• Comfort participating in entrepreneurial discussions and awareness of when specialized expertise should be engaged.
• A distinct capability beyond coaching: workshop design, event production, content development, community cultivation, relationship building, or another equally impactful skill.
• The capacity to capture the focus of driven teenagers and build an environment they are eager to join.
• The skill to provide challenging feedback in ways that elevate both drive and results.
• Regular use of AI technologies with concrete examples demonstrating how AI enhances your output.
• Readiness to work on-site in New York City (relocation assistance available).
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience founding or co-founding a company.
• Background coaching, mentoring, or managing programs for teenagers or emerging adults.
• An established network of entrepreneurs, operators, investors, or advisors.
• Early-stage venture experience where you managed diverse responsibilities and created systems from the ground up.

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.