A One-Year Fellowship for Recent College Graduates
About LeapYear
Eighty percent of high school graduates have no idea what they want to do with their lives. Yet we send them straight to college where they'll change majors three times and graduate into jobs they don't love - or careers completely unrelated to what they studied.
LeapYear exists to change this story.
We're building the definitive Launch Year program for high school graduates who want to discover their calling before investing in further education. Through a combination of career prototyping (design thinking), intensive skill development, spiritual formation, and personalized coaching, we help students answer four critical questions:
Who are you?
What do you love?
What are you great at?
What does the world need?
Our inaugural cohort launches in Austin this August. A group of carefully selected students will spend a transformational year exploring their calling, running intentional experiments, building essential skills, and preparing to thrive in whatever comes next.
More about LeapYear can be found here:
startleapyear.com
Why We Need a Fellow
As we launch our first cohort, we're looking for someone special to join our founding team. Not just to help execute the program, but to help us learn, iterate, and build something extraordinary.
You'll be our bridge between leadership and students, close enough to students to understand their experience, mature enough to contribute to program development, and positioned uniquely to help us create something that will impact thousands of young adults in the years to come.
This role exists because we believe the best programs are built by people who live them. You'll experience LeapYear as a participant while helping us deliver it, giving you insider knowledge that will make you invaluable to our mission.
The Opportunity
Join the founding team of LeapYear as our first Fellow—a unique post-graduation role that combines meaningful work, accelerated learning, and direct mentorship from our CEO. You'll help launch and execute our inaugural cohort while participating in the transformational program yourself.
This isn't a typical fellowship. You're not just observing - you're building something meaningful alongside students discovering their calling, while discovering your own.
Think of this as:
Compensation & Benefits
Financial Package:
Program Benefits:
Flexibility:
Who You Are
Heart & Character:
Drive & Capability:
Practical Skills:
What You'll Do
Student Integration (Player/Coach Role):
Program Operations (30 hours/week):
Special Projects:
Timeline
Why This Matters
You'll be part of something bigger than a job - you're helping solve the formation crisis facing young adults today. Our students aren't just choosing majors; they're discovering their calling and learning to integrate faith with their future work.
As our first Fellow, you'll help establish systems and culture that will impact thousands of future students. You'll learn startup operations, gain leadership experience, and build a network that will serve you throughout your career.
Most importantly, you'll spend a year asking and beginning to answer the same four questions our students explore: Who are you? What do you love? What are you great at? What does the world need?
“I have had the wonderful privilege to get to work alongside and learn from Riley. Off the bat, Riley wants to get to know you and see where your gifts, talents, and skills may excel. He curates your responsibilities to align with those skills, so that they may be further enhanced and improved with tangible work experience. Regardless of your “level” within the company, you are treated as an equal. Your ideas will never go unheard since you are a part of the unified LeapYear team, working together."
- Brett Hyman, McCombs MS in Marketing, LeapYear Marketing Intern
"Each time I've gotten to work with Riley it has grown me in all the best ways.
His energy and mind for development alongside his commitment to excellence in his craft is contagious and inspiring!"
- Ben F.
“My time working with Riley was the most empowering experience I have had in the workforce to this day. He is the boss that embodies the saying “A good leader grows leaders.”
- Taylor W.
Ready to Apply?
Send the following to: hello@startleapyear.com
LeapYear is committed to creating an inclusive environment and encourages applications from candidates of all backgrounds.
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