Private Wealth Advisor

$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)

• Taking full ownership of the qualified prospect pipeline — every lead, whether it arrives inbound, emerges from an event, or comes via referral, transforms into a genuine relationship centered on you. Consistent calls, deliberate follow-up, and serving as the individual who either possesses the answer to any inquiry, large or small, or retrieves it promptly.
• Organizing events that unite prospective and current families, ranging from broader informational sessions to more private dinners and receptions.
• Shepherding families through application and diligence — articulating the school's model, the guarantee, and the trajectory, moving them from interest to enrollment without resorting to aggressive sales tactics.
• Maintaining engagement with every family in the community — those deliberating, those already enrolled, and those whose younger siblings may follow. Anticipatory touchpoints ensure families hear from you before needing to reach out.
• Serving as the personal embodiment of Founders School for these families, and constructing the repeatable relationship-and-enrollment framework that enables the program to operate and expand.
• Collaborating directly with school leadership who manage the most elite-tier conversations initially, while you establish the operational foundation.

Much like a fund, the calendar follows two cadences: an active phase during which you cultivate relationships with prospective families and advance them toward commitment, and a sustaining phase where you keep enrolled families engaged, proactively informed, and satisfied enough to renew their confidence and introduce others.

• Selling. There are no commissions, no targets, and no aggressive closing techniques. If a family perceives pressure, we have not succeeded. You are not a salesperson; you are the individual they rely upon most for this decision.
• Administering selectivity. Conventional admissions focuses on exclusion at institutions with 4% acceptance rates. We are creating something novel and persuading exceptional families to place their trust in it.
• Transferring families elsewhere and withdrawing. The relationship does not conclude at deposit — it marks the start of a multi-year engagement you will own.
• Becoming overwhelmed by logistics. Event coordination, documentation, and enrollment administration are managed by operations. Your attention remains on families.

Within 6 months, you will own the complete pipeline of prospective New York City families — each one has an authentic relationship with you, and school leadership is no longer the constraint on any relationship beneath the highest tier. Families in the Fall 2027 cohort have been personally guided from curiosity to enrollment, every enrolled family receives proactive touchpoints on a regular cadence, and you have developed the initial version of the messaging framework and family-relationship playbook that does not currently exist.

By 12 months, the New York City funnel operates as a system under your stewardship, not an improvisation — you can describe the pipeline, the conversion metrics, and the status of every family relationship at any moment. Enrolled families are renewing their commitment and referring their networks; retention and referral outcomes are directly attributable to you.

As the program expands toward 1,000 students across multiple cities, you will recruit and lead the enrollment team reporting to you — sourcing, onboarding, and defining the family experience at every location. You are entering at the foundational stage of the function that will determine whether Founders School attracts the right families to fill its seats.

• You are authentically comfortable and capable when cultivating relationships with high-net-worth individuals. You have accomplished this in a previous capacity — investor relations, private wealth management, private-client sales, luxury hospitality at the Four Seasons / Aman level, high-end real estate, or comparable fields — and you can engage confidently with someone worth a billion dollars, interpret their idiosyncrasies, and operate as a peer rather than a subordinate. This is essential.
• You are relationship-focused, not transaction-focused. You would be ill-suited to a high-pressure, commission-oriented environment, and you are driven by creating something enduring and exceptional rather than inflating a metric.
• You are sufficiently organized and self-directed to manage a pipeline independently. Nothing is overlooked, and no family feels neglected after commitment.
• 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.

• Investor-relations or relationship-management experience at a fund — the most direct parallel to this position. This explicitly includes capable professionals who are exhausted by the fundraising cycle and wish to apply the same skill set toward something impactful.
• An established network within, or credibility among, New York City high-net-worth families.
• Authentic conviction in the mission — that entrepreneurship offers a superior education to the conventional model — and enthusiasm to communicate that narrative.