Elite 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. 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. As an Elite Guide, you bring more business depth and a core skill beyond coaching, and you own a piece of the program that every city runs. If that's you, 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 a group of 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. You're one of the coaches students remember from those weekends, and you run workshops in your area of strength.

Beyond your own students, you own and improve a piece of the program: a workshop track, the mentor bench in your city, a module we run at every weekend, or something we haven't thought of yet. What this team builds in year one becomes the playbook for every city that follows.

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. This is a pure coaching seat: you don't manage other Guides.

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

• Talking real shop with students whose companies are further along, and knowing when to pull in a mentor

• Owning a piece of the program across cities and making it better every season

• Running workshops and office hours in your area of strength, at home and at weekend events, and pulling mentors in to…