Founding Art Director

Founders School is a radical new program that launched in Fall 2026. Our promise is that students will make $1,000,000 in profit by graduation or their tuition is refunded. But not every student can afford to attend, and there are countless people outside that age range who want to learn these skills. That's where you come in.

We are building the first entrepreneurship simulation game. We expect this game to be played by hundreds of thousands of people, not just teenagers, within three years, and to become the canonical artifact of how to teach hard skills through play.

The first game is built with the IP of a business educator whose books have sold millions of copies.

We believe entrepreneurship is one of the most positive forces in the world. Our entire thesis is that teaching teenagers to build real, profitable businesses changes their trajectory and the trajectory of the country. We are unapologetically pro-business, pro-entrepreneurship, and pro-wealth-creation, and we want people who share that worldview. If you think "founder" is a dirty word or capitalism needs to be apologized for, you will hate every meeting we have.

We use AI across the full game development pipeline. We want people who are already obsessed with using AI to accelerate and enhance game development, and who are excited to create new kinds of game experiences with it. If you think AI is overhyped or a threat to your craft, this role is not for you.

You are an AI-first art team of one: concept, characters, environments, props, UI and tech art. You work directly with the Simulation Game Director and the Founding Technical Director.

• Define the art direction and art style for the platform and game simulations, in collaboration with the Simulation Game Director.
• Own the visual identity and style bible for the platform and all game simulations.
• Build workflows for every stage of the art process.
• Build your own AI art pipeline (Scenario, ComfyUI, LoRAs, whatever works).
• Wire your pipeline into our engine and authoring tools.

• Deployed workflows generate art for multiple games at our quality bar, and at least 8 in 10 early teen play testers call the look polished and exciting
• The first simulation looks like a finished, commercial-quality game
• Generative pipelines produce near-production-level assets in the house style, using LoRAs or equivalent

• Output: the pipeline supplies several simulations' worth of art at that bar, and a new sim's art takes weeks
• Integration: the workflows are wired into the team's tools with the technical director and the director, so anyone on the team can generate on-style assets without you in the loop
• The style is unmistakably ours: players recognize the game from a screenshot, and the fine-tuned models encode it

• You've been an artist on successful commercial games, ideally as a lead, on a large studio team, an indie team, or both.
• You know the full game art pipeline, from concept to in-engine.
• You're in the top 1% of AI users in game art, hands-on with tools like Scenario, ComfyUI and LoRA training.
• You've built and run your own generative art pipeline and shipped game art through it.
• You're a hands-on generalist artist.
• You've written a style bible others followed.
• You think about art commercially.
• You're based in or able to relocate to NYC for a hybrid schedule (relocation covered).
• You're authorized to work in the US.

• UI/UX expertise.
• You have shipped a game in a relevant genre, such as sandbox, sim, tycoon or builder.
• You are a passionate player of relevant genre games.
• You have worked on educational games, simulations or products.
• You have bridged game art and marketing: key art, trailers and social.
• You have worked…