Entrepreneurship Program Director, Founders School

Develop founders, not curricula. Most educators believe high school exists to ready students for what comes next. We believe what comes next begins immediately. Founders School is a four‑year secondary institution serving students unwilling to postpone creating meaningful impact until they reach adulthood. These students aren’t completing simulated entrepreneurial exercises; they are building actual companies, collaborating with experienced founders, mastering AI, and addressing real‑world challenges.

Our elevated expectations are driven by the exceptional nature of our students: launch a million‑dollar enterprise, discover problems deserving solutions, and achieve AI mastery ahead of their adult counterparts. Your responsibility is to ensure that ambition remains viable.

You won’t deliver classroom instruction or dictate operational strategies for student ventures. Instead, you will mentor a cohort of emerging founders daily, maintaining their accountability, helping them navigate obstacles, and sustaining momentum when entrepreneurship becomes challenging. You will recognize when to push them harder, when to offer encouragement, and when to facilitate introductions to appropriate mentors or tools. The curriculum, Entrepreneurs‑in‑Residence, and founder ecosystem supply the technical startup knowledge.

You deliver the structure, expectations, and forward motion that convert capability into achievement.

This also represents a chance to contribute to an institution from its inception. As part of our founding team in New York City, you will influence the culture, operational frameworks, and everyday reality of a school built to transform what secondary education can achieve. Your contributions will inform the model for every subsequent Founders School location.

• Mentor and drive a group of student entrepreneurs through regular 1:1 sessions, daily touchpoints, and collective stand‑ups that ensure continuous, quantifiable advancement.
• Maintain exceptionally demanding performance standards while delivering the guidance and accountability students require to navigate challenges and continue building.
• Track student development via FounderOS, recognize when students encounter roadblocks, and facilitate connections to mentors, Entrepreneurs‑in‑Residence, or additional resources that catalyze their advancement.
• Contribute to establishing the culture, rituals, programming, gatherings, and operational cadence of an elite entrepreneurial secondary school.
• Accompany students on multiple annual trips while cultivating enduring relationships with founders, investors, business operators, and entrepreneurial families.

• Serving as the lead startup advisor or crafting business strategies for students. FounderOS, Entrepreneurs‑in‑Residence, and guest mentors handle that domain.
• Conducting conventional academic instruction or evaluating traditional coursework.
• Tolerating mediocre output from students with the capacity for excellence.
• Facilitating workshops beyond your specialized knowledge or defaulting to superficial startup guidance.
• Operating within an inflexible educational bureaucracy where administrative processes obstruct substantive student progress.

Establish conditions where each student continuously develops as an entrepreneur by integrating superior mentorship, rigorous accountability, strategic relationships, and a culture that transforms driven adolescents into competent founders.

• A minimum of 3 years in leadership or high‑impact roles at a startup or rapidly scaling organization.
• Sound business acumen and the capacity to engage credibly with early‑stage entrepreneurs while understanding when to engage specialized experts.
• Proven capability to mentor, inspire, and maintain demanding standards with high‑achieving individuals.
• Regular, practical application of AI to enhance your work’s quality and efficiency.
• Excellent communication and relationship‑development abilities with students, families, mentors, and entrepreneurs.
• Commitment to full‑time, in‑person work in New York City, including periodic…