Experience and Program Designer
The Academy
Experience and Program Designer
The Academy
For-profit AI startup-education incubator
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The Horowitz Andreessen Academy is a playground for an incredible Experience and Program Designer.
This is a highly creative role where you’ll design the program, events, spaces, and experiences that make the Academy the best possible experience for every student. Not by hosting one-off events, but by thoughtfully designing the entire student journey from beginning to end.
HAA is where students will need to lock in and build - but they also need to have a vibrant social life. Our goal is to expose the students to wildly creative and unique experiences that would never be possible at a traditional college or university - and that I honestly can't even dream up right now, but you can.
In this role, you will:
Find extremely unique people to speak or run workshops at the Academy - some for students only, some open to the broader public
Design hackathons, galas, and offsites for young builders and the wider tech community
Build partnerships with major SF cultural institutions like SF MOMA, the Exploratorium, the de Young Museum
Create a small "museum of technology" within the space so students and guests have an awesome landing place when they arrive
Design icebreakers, factory tours, evening adventures, pop-ups, and art events - and just as importantly, build the culture and conditions for students to organize these themselves
Build and manage a small team (at least one FTE) so this experience scales beyond what you alone can produce
You must love designing for college-aged students, since almost everything you build will be for them. You'll also need to have great taste and an eye for details. If you’re interested, share with us a few ideas for experiences you’d want to design for HAA students, and why.
P.S. This role is specifically Experience and Program design for extracurricular activities. There's another role focusing entirely on curriculum called "Dean of Education".
For-profit AI startup-education incubator
The Horowitz Andreessen Academy offers a for-profit, college-style alternative for recent high school graduates who want to build AI-enabled tech companies. Its program uses three pillars—Pursuits (self-directed projects), Courses (short, founder- and operator-led classes), and Co-ops (work rotations at partner firms)—with a Founding Class Fellowship that is tuition-free for about 50 students in Fall 2027, plus travel funds and compute credits; a two-year paid program is planned for 2028. Unlike traditional schools, it is not accredited and does not award degrees, and relies on “proof of work” and hands-on experience, supported by deep ties to industry partners like Google, NVIDIA, OpenAI, Stripe, and others. The goal is to train a new generation of AI builders and startup leaders and to create a scalable model that serves as a talent pipeline for Andreessen Horowitz portfolio companies.
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