YouTube Creator, 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 discussions, student achievements, live events, and unedited material into engaging stories that ambitious teens and their parents organically choose to watch and distribute.
• Execute fast-paced tests with hooks, thumbnails, titles, formats, editing approaches, posting frequency, and channel strategies to drive maximum organic reach.
• Leverage analytics platforms and AI-driven tools to elevate content quality, accelerate production timelines, and enhance performance with each iteration.
• Establish the creator-driven media operation that fuels qualified admissions demand through genuine storytelling instead of paid campaigns.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Overseeing agencies, external production companies, or internal teams that handle content creation on your behalf.
• Reviewing and approving creative work from a distance rather than personally generating high-impact content.
• Executing traditional school marketing initiatives, corporate branding projects, or maintaining scheduled posting calendars.
• Prioritizing superficial engagement numbers or depending on paid media instead of cultivating organic audience expansion.
• Allocating time to content planning meetings instead of actively producing material.

Basic Requirements

• Verified background in one of these areas:
• Independently grew an audience from zero to millions as a creator or as an early core member of a creator operation,
• Contributed directly within a top-tier founder-driven content system with documented responsibility for content production and audience expansion.
• A showcase featuring 2–3 content examples you personally filmed, edited, packaged, and released with trackable organic reach.
• Proven capacity to articulate your specific role in audience development using data points such as subscribers, followers, watch duration, engagement rates, shares, or total views.
• Advanced hands-on proficiency in scripting, shooting, editing, packaging, publishing, and refining creator-driven video material.
• Sharp instincts for founder-centric storytelling and platform-optimized content development.
• Regular application of AI technologies to streamline research, scripting, editing, repurposing, or performance analysis.
• Currently based in, or prepared to move 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 ventures.
• Track record launching a media property or channel from the ground up.
• Strong familiarity with content themes that engage ambitious teenagers and aspiring young entrepreneurs.
• Proven ability to convert performance data 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.