Associate, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the role

This is not a teaching position. Your role is motivation. The most meaningful support you can offer a student who has reached 99% of their target is to insist it is not finished.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on subjects including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other transferable competencies, modifying the playbook and creating new sessions when gaps are identified
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions that drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and individual relationships to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and working with students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Adjusting your approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to eighth graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains expectations and the adult students trust; warmth establishes credibility to challenge, and challenging demonstrates belief in their capability

Requirements

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT - relocation assistance provided
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can share of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Regular use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable goals
• History of personal high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that upholding rigorous standards is intrinsic rather than performative
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or reluctant students into engaged contributors

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it. Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lessons at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Developing curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students at workstations; motivation in this environment is direct, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly objective to help a student meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the target
• Scoring assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Associate Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting they loved you.

Pay

$50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly.