What are the responsibilities and job description for the Accelerator Program Manager, Founders School - $200,000/year USD position at Crossover?
Traditional high schools define success by grades and standardized test results. At Founders School, success means businesses started, real problems solved, and students reaching outcomes most adults would think impossible.
We need someone capable of motivating, challenging, and developing driven teenage entrepreneurs as they launch actual companies, harness AI, and pursue ambitions typically reserved for adulthood.
If high standards, high ownership, and guiding exceptional young people toward extraordinary results excite you, read on.
What You Will Be Doing
Build the culture, accountability, and support infrastructure that allow ambitious student founders to execute consistently, use AI with skill, and reach outcomes that exceed what conventional education permits.
Basic Requirements
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.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5816-US-NewYork-AcceleratorPro.004
We need someone capable of motivating, challenging, and developing driven teenage entrepreneurs as they launch actual companies, harness AI, and pursue ambitions typically reserved for adulthood.
If high standards, high ownership, and guiding exceptional young people toward extraordinary results excite you, read on.
What You Will Be Doing
- Propel daily execution and momentum across your assigned student group through standups, coaching, and accountability frameworks.
- Deliver weekly 1:1 coaching and daily check-ins that enable students to navigate obstacles and sustain forward motion.
- Track student performance in FounderOS, detect stalled progress early, and bring in support resources as necessary.
- Link students with mentors, founders, operators, and opportunities that speed up their development.
- Lead workshops, events, and community programming that deepen culture and elevate performance expectations.
- Demonstrate practical AI application and guide students in integrating AI into their businesses, workflows, and decision-making.
- Accompany students on 3-4 school trips annually.
- Delivering in-depth strategic business consulting as students develop their ventures. That responsibility belongs to FounderOS, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence, and visiting mentors.
- Tolerating performance beneath a student's proven capability.
- Instructing academic subjects. The academic platform and team handle that domain.
- Facilitating workshops beyond your expertise.
- Offering generic resources or connections that fail to meet Founders School standards.
Build the culture, accountability, and support infrastructure that allow ambitious student founders to execute consistently, use AI with skill, and reach outcomes that exceed what conventional education permits.
Basic Requirements
- 3 years in leadership roles or high-impact individual contributor positions within startups, growth-stage companies, or similarly rigorous environments.
- Comfort engaging in entrepreneurial discussions and knowing when to involve specialized expertise.
- A unique strength beyond coaching: workshop facilitation, event design, content creation, community building, relationship development, or another equally impactful skill.
- The capacity to capture the attention of ambitious teenagers and build an environment they're eager to join.
- The skill to deliver challenging feedback in ways that boost motivation and performance.
- Daily use of AI tools with concrete examples of how AI enhances your output.
- Willingness to work on-site in New York City (relocation assistance available).
- Authorization to work in the United States.
- Founded or co-founded a business.
- Experience coaching, mentoring, or managing programs for teenagers or young adults.
- An established network of founders, operators, investors, or mentors.
- Early-stage startup experience wearing multiple hats and creating systems from the ground up.
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.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
Working with us
This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.
Crossover Job Code: LJ-5816-US-NewYork-AcceleratorPro.004
Salary : $200,000