Associate, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

Current openings at this compensation level are in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; and Park City, UT. Relocation assistance is available.

About the role

At Alpha, students master core subjects through adaptive AI-powered learning platforms. No traditional lectures, textbooks, or whiteboard instruction. Your mandate is entirely focused on motivation and life skills—typically relegated to the periphery in conventional schools.

Consider a typical Tuesday: you spend half the day facilitating one-hour workshops for a K-8 cohort focused on public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. The remaining hours are dedicated to individual and small-group sessions with those same students, where you analyze their Coachbot data and drive each toward 100% completion of weekly app objectives, leveraging school currency, leaderboards, and the trust you've established to overcome resistance.

Your quarterly success reduces to three metrics: every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, every student demonstrates mastery on the Test2Pass assessment for each workshop, and 90% or higher report they value working with you. Falling short on any single metric means the role has not been fulfilled.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback practices
• Conduct daily individual and small-group motivation sessions designed to drive every student to 100% completion of weekly app goals, informed by Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards)
• Deliver the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then provide additional coaching to any student who does not pass until mastery is achieved
• Refine the workshop playbook and create new sessions as needed to ensure content resonates with both kindergarteners and 8th graders
• Serve as both the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students voluntarily confide in

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures, designing math and reading curricula, or grading assignments (academic content is delivered through the apps)
• Conducting standardized test preparation or being accountable for class-wide test performance
• Managing parent conferences, correspondence, and concerns (campus leadership handles all parent communication)
• Managing behavior for 30 students simultaneously (cohorts are intentionally small and behavior intervention is one-on-one)
• Passively monitoring students at computers (motivation work here is hands-on and relational)

Requirements

• Able to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; or Park City, UT
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom instruction, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth programming
• Comfortable allowing adaptive learning software to handle academic instruction while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
• A demonstrated history of high achievement—academic, athletic, or professional—that has made upholding rigorous standards habitual rather than performative
• Stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without volume escalation
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without need for visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, or after-school programming where you held direct accountability for students achieving defined goals
• Experience delivering social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills instruction
• A specific student you can identify who transitioned from disengaged or resistant to fully committed, along with the precise intervention you employed
• Regular use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini

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 include guides, operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. The culture is fast-moving, ambitious, and student-focused—ideal for those who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Benefits

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD per year, paid weekly.

Schedule

This is a year-long, full-time, in-person position.