Private Client Relationship Manager, Founders School - $400,000/year USD

Building and sustaining relationships with billionaires requires a particular skill — especially when the decision involves their child's future. This position demands exactly that. If you're inclined toward "application processing" or "funnel management," look elsewhere. If you're drawn to long-term relationship ownership spanning years, this could be the defining role of your career.

Founders School is a four-year high school where students launch actual companies with the goal of $1M in profit before they graduate. Annual tuition stands at $150K, backed by a guarantee: $1M profit or full tuition refund. The inaugural New York City cohort begins Fall 2026 with 20 students, with plans to scale to 1,000. Our families rank among the world's most accomplished and selective — net worths frequently range from hundreds of millions into the billions. Every one of those relationships must be owned, nurtured, and maintained from initial contact through enrollment and well beyond.

This role resembles investor relations at an elite fund far more than traditional admissions. You'll steward a portfolio of high-net-worth prospects, guide them through a rigorous engagement process, secure their commitment on a significant decision, and preserve the relationship over years so trust deepens: renewals, sibling enrollments, and peer referrals follow naturally.

What You Will Be Doing

• Managing the entire pipeline of vetted prospective families — each lead, whether it arrives inbound, originates at an event, or comes via referral, transforms into a genuine relationship with you as the anchor. Consistent calls, deliberate follow-up, and serving as the immediate source for answers or the person who secures them quickly.
• Organizing events that unite prospective and enrolled families, ranging from broader information sessions to curated dinners and casual gatherings.
• Shepherding families through application and due diligence — clarifying the school model, the guarantee structure, and the educational trajectory, moving them from curiosity to enrollment without resorting to aggressive tactics.
• Maintaining warmth across the entire family ecosystem — those deliberating, those enrolled, and those whose younger children will follow. Initiating outreach proactively so families receive communication before needing to request it.
• Embodying Founders School for these families while constructing the scalable relationship and enrollment framework that enables program operation and expansion.
• Collaborating directly with school leadership handling the highest-tier early conversations as you establish the foundational system.

Much like a fund, the calendar divides into two phases: an intensive period focused on cultivating relationships with prospective families and advancing them toward commitment, followed by a stewardship period dedicated to keeping enrolled families engaged, informed proactively, and satisfied enough to renew trust and attract others.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Selling. No commission structure, no quota targets, no aggressive closing tactics. Any perception of pressure constitutes failure. You represent trusted counsel, not a salesperson.
• Administering selectivity. Conventional admissions centers on exclusion at institutions with 4% acceptance rates. We're constructing something new and persuading exceptional families to invest in it.
• Transferring families and vanishing. The relationship begins, not ends, at deposit — it's a multi-year partnership you retain ownership of.
• Submerging in administrative tasks. Operations handles scheduling, documentation, and enrollment paperwork. Your capacity remains dedicated to families.

Private Client Relationship Manager Key Responsibilities

Within 6 months, you command the complete prospective family pipeline for NYC — each family maintains a substantive relationship with you, and school leadership no longer serves as the constraint on any relationship below the highest tier. Fall 2027 cohort families have been individually guided from initial interest through enrollment, every enrolled family receives a proactive engagement rhythm, and you've created the foundational messaging framework and relationship playbook that doesn't currently exist.

At the 12-month mark, the NYC pipeline operates through you as a structured system rather than reactive chaos — you can articulate pipeline status, conversion metrics, and the condition of every family relationship at any moment. Enrolled families are renewing their commitment and generating referrals; retention and referral outcomes are measurably attributable to your efforts.

As the program expands toward 1,000 students across multiple cities, you construct and direct the enrollment team reporting to you — recruiting, developing, and defining the family experience across all campuses. You're establishing yourself at the foundation of the function that determines whether Founders School attracts the right families.

Basic Requirements

• You possess authentic comfort and proven effectiveness building relationships with high-net-worth individuals. Prior experience required — investor relations, private wealth management, private-client sales, luxury hospitality at Four Seasons / Aman caliber, high-end real estate, or comparable — and you can engage confidently with billionaires, interpret their individual styles, and operate as a peer rather than subordinate. This is mandatory.
• Your orientation is relationship-centric, not transaction-focused. Hard-sell, commission-driven environments would make you uncomfortable, and you're motivated by building enduring excellence rather than inflating metrics.
• You demonstrate sufficient organization and initiative to own a pipeline independently. Nothing escapes attention, and no family experiences neglect after commitment.
• You currently reside in or will relocate to New York, NY within 60 days.
• You possess legal authorization to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Investor-relations or relationship-management background at a fund — the closest parallel to this position. This explicitly welcomes accomplished professionals experiencing fundraising burnout who wish to apply identical skills toward meaningful impact.
• Established connections within, or recognized credibility among, NYC high-net-worth communities.
• Authentic conviction in the mission — that entrepreneurial education surpasses traditional pathways — and enthusiasm for articulating that narrative.

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 for more details on this topic.

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