Guide, Programs Team

Founders School is the high school where every student aims to build a million-dollar company before graduation. We pair Alpha's elite academics with real companies, world-class mentors, and a culture built for ambitious teenagers. Our north star is bigger than one campus: develop 1 million+ youth entrepreneurs across all Founders School initiatives.

Founders School has full campuses in NYC and Austin, and we're establishing our presence in San Francisco, Miami, and Los Angeles. The Programs Team leads that push across all five cities, and we're hiring a team of 1-2 per city, starting by January at the latest. You won't be running a school. You'll be part of the team running the Founders Nights and Weekends Program in your city, and traveling with the team to run our weekend events across the country.

Above all, you are a great business coach to teens who can make hard challenges a fun experience. You know when to coach to high standards, and you know how to build genuine connections and get our students hyped about entrepreneurship. Deep relationships, high standards, and high support go together, never one without the other. Exceptional people skills are a hard must: earn trust fast, give hard feedback that sticks, and hold the relationship through the messy middle.

You coach entrepreneurship the way an elite athletic coach develops athletes: direct instruction, deliberate practice, reps with real stakes, not inquiry-based exploration. If you've coached high performers or built something real and want to help grow Founders School, read on.

The job has two parts.

First, you run the Founders Nights and Weekends Program in your city. It launches in each city in January and continues at the start of each school year. Students are enrolled full-time at their own schools, so they come to us on nights and weekends to build real companies. We only work with ambitious, entrepreneurial students who want to be in the room.

Your job is to challenge and support them, unlocking their full potential through entrepreneurship. You coach them through a set program: workshops, skills, and revenue milestones, from a founder's first $100 to $100k.

Second, you travel as part of the Programs Team running Founders School weekend events across the country, and you help run our Summer Programs. Every weekend is a chance to show a new city what ambitious teenagers can do, and you're part of the team that makes it world-class.

This is the Programs Team, not the full-time campus team. Campus Guides coach students across a full school day, every day, in one building. You coach part-time students on nights and weekends, in your city and on the road. In NYC and Austin, you run the program alongside our campus for students who aren't enrolled full-time.

As a Guide, your focus is your students. You report to Cameron Sorsby, Co-Head of Founders School.

• Coaching a group of students in your city's Founders Nights and Weekends Program, with relationships deep enough that your coaching is specific, not generic

• Running weekly 1:1s where each student names a target, gets direct instruction on the skill they need, and reports back on real reps

• Running workshops and office hours on selling, building in public, resilience, and financial thinking, and pulling mentors in to provide specific support

• Coaching students through real firsts: first cold call, first rejection, first product nobody wants, first pivot

• Tracking every student's progress against the revenue milestones, with honest conversations about where they actually are

• Traveling with the Programs Team to run Founders School weekend events across the country, and helping run our Summer Programs

• Building a founder culture in your city where students push each other because you modeled it

• Using AI daily in your own work and modeling AI-native building for students

• Running the school. You're on the programs team, not the full-time campus team.

• Managing other Guides. This is a coaching seat.

• Inventing your own program. The program is set; your job is coaching and accountability inside it.

• Facilitating inquiry-based exploration instead of coaching entrepreneurship directly.

• Teaching academics. Students handle school elsewhere; you stay on the founder program.

• Handling event logistics, enrollment, or family scheduling. Operations owns that.

• Coaching remotely. You're on-site in your city and on the road with the team.

The first cold call. A…