Client Advisor, Founders School - $400,000/year USD

Building long-term relationships with individuals whose net worth reaches into the billions—and earning their confidence around one of the most consequential decisions they will make for their child—is the essence of this role. If your default approach is to "manage applicants" or "optimize a pipeline," this position will not suit you. If your instinct is to take full ownership of a relationship over multiple years, this may prove to be the most rewarding role of your career.

Founders School is a four-year high school where students launch genuine businesses targeting $1M in profit before they graduate. Annual tuition stands at $150K, backed by a guarantee: $1M in profit by graduation, or full tuition refunded. The program will open in New York City in Fall 2026 with an inaugural class of 20 students, with plans to scale toward 1,000. Our families rank among the most accomplished and exacting in the world—many hold net worths ranging from hundreds of millions to billions of dollars. Every one of those relationships, from initial contact through enrollment and well beyond, must be owned by someone.

This role resembles managing investor relations at a premier fund far more than it does overseeing admissions at a traditional private school. You will steward a portfolio of high-net-worth prospects, guide them through a rigorous evaluation process, support them in making a significant commitment, and then sustain the relationship over years so that trust deepens: families re-enroll, enroll additional children, and refer peers.

What You Will Be Doing

• Taking full ownership of the pipeline of qualified prospective families—every lead, whether it arrives inbound, surfaces at an event, or comes by referral, becomes a meaningful relationship with you at its core. This means regular calls, considered follow-up, and serving as the person who either holds the answer to any question, large or small, or secures it quickly.
• Organizing events that convene prospective and enrolled families, ranging from larger informational sessions to more private dinners and social gatherings.
• Shepherding families through the application and diligence journey—articulating the school's model, the guarantee, and the trajectory, and moving them from curiosity to enrollment without resorting to high-pressure tactics.
• Maintaining warmth across the entire family ecosystem—those still deciding, those already enrolled, and those whose younger siblings may join later. Proactive outreach ensures families hear from you before they need to reach out.
• Serving as the human embodiment of Founders School for these families, and constructing the replicable relationship-and-enrollment framework that enables the program to operate and expand.
• Collaborating directly with the school heads who lead the most senior-level conversations initially, while you establish the operational foundation beneath them.

Much like a fund, the calendar follows two distinct rhythms: an active season during which you cultivate relationships with prospective families and guide them toward commitment, and a maintenance season during which you keep enrolled families engaged, proactively informed, and satisfied enough to renew their trust and bring others into the fold.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Selling. There is no commission structure, no quota, and no aggressive closing. If a family perceives pressure, we have not succeeded. You are not a sales professional; you are the individual they trust most throughout this decision.
• Managing selectivity. Traditional admissions centers on rejecting applicants at institutions with 4% acceptance rates. We are constructing something new and persuading exceptional families to place their confidence in it.
• Transferring families to others and vanishing. The relationship does not conclude at the deposit—it marks the start of a multi-year engagement you continue to own.
• Becoming buried in logistics. Scheduling, documentation, and enrollment administration are managed by operations. Your attention remains focused on families.

Client Advisor Key Responsibilities

Within 6 months, you will own the complete pipeline of prospective NYC families—each one will have an established relationship with you, and the heads of school will no longer serve as the constraint on any relationship outside the highest tier. The families of the Fall 2027 cohort will have been personally guided from initial interest through enrollment, every enrolled family will be on a proactive communication cadence, and you will have created the first iteration of the messaging framework and family-relationship playbook that does not currently exist.

At 12 months, the NYC enrollment funnel will operate through you as a system rather than an ad-hoc effort—you will be able to describe the pipeline, the conversion metrics, and the status of every family relationship at any moment. Enrolled families will be renewing their trust and generating referrals; retention and referral outcomes will be measurably attributable to your work.

As the program expands toward 1,000 students across multiple cities, you will build and manage the enrollment team reporting to you—recruiting, training, and defining the family experience at every campus. You are entering at the foundational stage of the function that will determine whether Founders School fills its seats with the right families.

Basic Requirements

• You are authentically comfortable and effective in cultivating relationships with high-net-worth individuals. You have done so in a previous role—investor relations, private wealth management, private-client sales, luxury hospitality at the Four Seasons or Aman level, high-end real estate, or comparable fields—and you can engage with someone worth a billion dollars as a peer, interpret their idiosyncrasies, and avoid appearing deferential. This is essential.
• You are relationship-oriented, not transaction-oriented. You would find a high-pressure, commission-based culture uncomfortable, and you are motivated by building something enduring and exceptional rather than maximizing a metric.
• You are organized and proactive enough to manage a pipeline independently. Nothing is overlooked, and no family ever feels neglected after they commit.
• You are based in or prepared to relocate to New York, NY within 60 days.
• You are legally authorized to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Investor-relations or relationship-management experience at a fund—the most direct parallel to this role. This expressly includes capable individuals who are exhausted by the fundraising cycle and wish to apply the same skill set to something purposeful.
• An established network within, or credibility among, NYC high-net-worth families.
• Sincere conviction in the mission—that entrepreneurship offers a superior education to the conventional route—and enthusiasm for communicating that vision.

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.

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 $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.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5832-US-Paterson-ClientAdvisor