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Founding Content Creator, Founders School - $400,000/year USD

Crossover · Multiple locations ·

Pay:
340.000 - 400.000
Job type:
Contract

You understand what separates content that sits idle from content that spreads. If you've independently grown an audience by shooting, editing, packaging, and publishing your own videos, this is your chance to replicate that success—this time for a school dedicated to teaching teenagers how to become entrepreneurs.

What You Will Be Doing

Independently produce founder-driven content by scripting, shooting, editing, packaging, publishing, and refining videos for YouTube, TikTok, Instagram, and additional creator platforms.

Transform founder discussions, student narratives, event footage, and unprocessed material into engaging stories that ambitious teenagers and parents organically choose to watch and distribute.

Execute fast-paced tests with hooks, thumbnails, titles, formats, editing techniques, publishing frequency, and distribution methods to drive organic audience expansion.

Apply analytics platforms and AI resources to enhance content caliber, production velocity, and outcome metrics with each new release.

Construct the creator-driven media system that fuels qualified admissions interest through genuine storytelling instead of paid channels.

What You Won’t Be Doing

Overseeing agencies, production contractors, or teams tasked with creating content on your behalf.

Reviewing creative work from the periphery rather than directly producing high-impact content yourself.

Executing traditional school marketing, corporate branding initiatives, or maintaining scheduled social media posts.

Pursuing superficial engagement numbers or depending on paid advertising rather than cultivating organic audience development.

Allocating time to meetings about content rather than actively producing it.

Founding Content Creator Key Responsibilities
Independently establish Founders School's creator-driven media infrastructure to produce 5,000 qualified inbound admissions inquiries during the initial 12 months via high-impact, founder-centered content.

Basic Requirements

Verified experience in one of these categories:

Independently grew an audience from zero to millions as a creator or served as an early team member of a creator operation, or

Contributed directly within a premier founder-led content operation with documented responsibility for content production and audience expansion.

A portfolio containing 2–3 content pieces you personally filmed, edited, packaged, and released with quantifiable organic results.

Confirmed capacity to articulate your individual impact on audience growth through metrics including subscribers, followers, watch time, engagement, shares, or views.

Advanced hands‑on proficiency in scripting, filming, editing, packaging, publishing, and refining creator-driven video material.

Strong intuition for founder narratives and platform-optimized content development.

Regular application of AI tools to expedite research, scripting, editing, repurposing, or performance enhancement.

Currently based in, or prepared to move to, New York, NY within 60 days.

Eligible to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice‑to‑have Requirements

Background producing content for entrepreneurs, startup founders, or creator-driven enterprises.

Track record launching a media brand or channel from the ground up.

Comprehensive knowledge of what engages ambitious teenagers and young entrepreneurs.

Proven ability converting analytics into scalable content frameworks.

About Founders School
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.

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 $200 USD/hour, which equates to $400,000 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.

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