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About the Role

As the Founding General Manager, you will serve as the CEO for your city, responsible for raising capital, building and leading a high-performing team, establishing the local culture, and owning the P&L for your market. You will set the vision and build a team that attracts talent and creates a community embraced by the city. Frontier provides the model, accreditation, curriculum, platform, and infrastructure, while you bring local relationships, community trust, entrepreneurial conviction, and leadership to establish a local institution.

Responsibilities

Represent Frontier’s mission in working to build the next generation of talent for the AI era
Raise founding capital from foundations, corporate partners, and major donors
Convene a founding advisory board of civic, philanthropic, and corporate leaders
Build the employer coalition that anchors the local talent pipeline
Hire and lead the local team across operations, learner success, employer partnerships, and marketing
Launch Frontier’s first short courses, micro-credentials, and degree cohorts in your market
Own full P&L responsibility — revenue, costs, margin, and long-term sustainability of the city hub
Drive measurable outcomes: job placements, income growth, ventures launched
Represent Frontier as a thought leader on the local and national stage

Requirements

10+ years of senior leadership experience with a mix of entrepreneurial, consulting, operational, and capital-raising responsibilities
Demonstrated track record of founding, leading, or significantly scaling an organization, business unit, or major initiative with measurable financial and human impact
Proven ability to mobilize capital: a verifiable history of mobilizing $1M+ around a vision (e.g., venture capital, corporate budgets, major partnerships, philanthropic capital)
Experience in coalition building and stakeholder management, convening diverse leaders from education, workforce, philanthropy, civic government, and the private sector
P&L ownership experience, including building systems and managing revenue, operations, and costs
Team building experience, including hiring, leading, and growing high-performing teams
Possession of activatable trust capital: a meaningful network within your city’s civic, philanthropic, and corporate community, or within the technology, AI, and entrepreneurial ecosystem
Ability to build teams people fight to join
Experience mobilizing capital as a founder or principal
Experience running a business with P&L ownership
Ability to be an ecosystem player, connecting with key stakeholders
Strong storytelling ability to communicate complex ideas effectively
Track record of moving with confidence and conviction
Willingness to execute and roll up sleeves ('GYSHIDO' operator)
Combination of courage and humility

Skills

Leadership
Capital Raising
Team Building
P&L Management
Coalition Building
Stakeholder Management
Entrepreneurship
Operations Management
Marketing
Storytelling
Strategic Partnerships
Community Building
AI Talent Development

Location

15 cities across the US

Work Type

Independent Contractor

Experience Level

Senior leadership experience

Salary/Compensations

Base pay, performance-based upside, and long-term economics tied to success

Benefits

Responsible for own taxes, benefits, and work equipment

About the Company

Frontier provides the model, the accreditation, the curriculum, the national platform, and the infrastructure.
Joining a movement with serious institutional weight behind it: a fully accredited university, a proven operating model, a national peer network of Founding GMs across launch cities, and a content and thought leadership platform.