Private Client Relationship Manager

$400,000 USD/year ^{Pay is set based on global value, not the local market. Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks}  ($200 USD/hour)

• Managing the entire pipeline of qualified prospective families — whether inbound inquiries, event-sourced leads, or referrals, each becomes a substantive relationship you steward personally. This includes regular phone conversations, considered follow-up, and ensuring you either have the answer to every question or secure it without delay.
• Organizing and hosting events that unite prospective and enrolled families — ranging from broader informational sessions to curated dinners and intimate receptions.
• Leading families through the application and due-diligence process — articulating the school's model, the profit guarantee, and the educational pathway, and guiding them from curiosity to enrollment without resorting to aggressive sales tactics.
• Maintaining continuous engagement across the family ecosystem — those deliberating, those enrolled, and those whose younger children may join in future years. You'll initiate contact proactively, ensuring families hear from you before needing to reach out.
• Serving as the principal point of human contact for Founders School among these families, and designing the scalable relationship and enrollment infrastructure that enables the program to operate and expand.
• Collaborating directly with school leadership, who handle the most senior-tier conversations early on, while you establish the operational framework beneath them.

Much like a fund, the calendar operates in two phases: an active cycle during which you cultivate relationships with prospective families and guide them toward commitment, and a stewardship cycle in which you keep enrolled families engaged, informed, and satisfied enough to renew trust and introduce others.

• Selling in the traditional sense. There are no commissions, quotas, or pressure tactics. If a family perceives any coercion, we have failed. You are not a salesperson; you are their most trusted advisor in this decision.
• Managing artificial scarcity. Traditional admissions offices are gatekeepers at institutions with 4% acceptance rates. We are building something entirely new and persuading exceptional families to take a calculated risk on it.
• Transferring families to others and exiting the relationship. The relationship begins at deposit, not ends — it is a multi-year engagement you will own continuously.
• Being consumed by administrative logistics. Scheduling, documentation, and enrollment paperwork are managed by operations. Your focus remains squarely on families.

Within six months, you will own the complete pipeline of prospective families in New York City — each will have a personal relationship with you, and school leadership will no longer be constrained by relationship capacity below the highest tier. The fall 2027 cohort's families will have been personally guided from initial interest to enrollment, every enrolled family will be receiving proactive outreach on a defined cadence, and you will have authored the first iteration of the messaging framework and family relationship playbook that does not yet exist.

At the twelve-month mark, the New York City enrollment funnel will operate as a disciplined system rather than an ad hoc effort — you will be able to describe the pipeline, conversion metrics, and the health of every family relationship at any moment. Enrolled families will be renewing their commitment and actively referring others; retention and referral outcomes will be directly attributable to your stewardship.

As the program scales toward 1,000 students across multiple cities, you will recruit and lead the enrollment function beneath you — hiring, training, and defining the family experience at every campus. You are joining at the foundational stage of the function that will determine whether Founders School attracts and retains the right families.

• You are genuinely comfortable and effective cultivating relationships with high-net-worth individuals. You have done so in a prior capacity — investor relations, private wealth management, high-end client sales, luxury hospitality at institutions such as Four Seasons or Aman, elite real estate, or equivalent — and you can engage confidently with someone whose net worth reaches into the billions, interpret their idiosyncrasies, and interact as a peer rather than a subordinate. This is essential.
• You are motivated by relationships, not transactions. You would find a high-pressure, commission-driven environment uncomfortable, and you are driven by the prospect of building something enduring and excellent rather than maximizing short-term metrics.
• You are sufficiently organized and self-directed to manage a pipeline independently. Nothing is overlooked, and no family feels neglected after they commit.
• You are currently located in New York, NY, or prepared to relocate within 60 days.
• You are legally authorized to work in the United States.

• Investor relations or relationship management experience at a fund — the most analogous role to this one. This explicitly includes talented professionals who are exhausted by the perpetual fundraising cycle and wish to apply the same skill set to something more purposeful.
• An established network within, or demonstrated credibility among, New York City high-net-worth families.
• Authentic conviction in the mission — that entrepreneurship offers a superior education to conventional pathways — and enthusiasm for articulating that vision.