Athletic Director, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

On-site location at an Alpha campus: Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Fort Worth, TX; or Oklahoma City, OK. Relocation assistance available.

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. We believe confidence doesn't grow by lowering standards. It grows by guiding students to accomplish what they previously thought impossible. That conviction informs every choice we make. Our approach is intentionally different: students achieve academic mastery independently through AI-powered learning, which allows adults to concentrate on coaching character, cultivating resilience, nurturing leadership, and instilling habits that produce exceptional results.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it—those who believe young people deserve more than compliance, seat time, and mediocre expectations.

Responsibilities

• Develop and coach Guides to execute Alpha's coaching model with consistency, intensity, and uncompromising standards.
• Facilitate dynamic life skills workshops on communication, focus, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K-8 students using tested playbooks.
• Leverage student and Guide performance data to surface coaching opportunities, eliminate obstacles, and achieve measurable progress weekly.
• Conduct motivation sessions that empower every student to embrace ambitious goals and reliably reach them.
• Lead your own student cohort while exemplifying the coaching quality and accountability you require from all Guides.
• Establish a coaching culture in which exceptional Guides reliably cultivate students who love school, achieve academic mastery at an accelerated rate, and develop the resilience, leadership, and life skills necessary to thrive well beyond the classroom.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching academic content. Students master core academics independently via AI-powered learning applications.
• Developing lesson plans or designing curriculum. Your focus is outstanding coaching, not producing instructional materials.
• Managing classrooms using lectures, worksheets, or behavior management systems. Students direct their own learning, and you coach the habits that enable their success.
• Reducing expectations to sidestep challenging conversations. High standards and authentic belief in every student's capacity are inseparable.
• Defining success by activity rather than outcomes. Results take precedence over effort alone.

Requirements

• Willing to work on campus in Austin, TX; Dallas, TX; Fort Worth, TX; or Oklahoma City, OK.
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or related area.
• Experience managing an ongoing team of five or more adults, with final or primary authority to hire team members and make performance-based termination decisions.
• Consistent, recurring responsibility for the learning, behavior, motivation, or development of children ages 5-14 in an educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership context.
• Demonstrated history of building, launching, or substantially expanding a program, team, school, business, or initiative from inception, rather than only sustaining or inheriting one.
• Established ability to apply performance metrics and data to identify problems, prioritize initiatives, and produce measurable outcomes.
• Willingness to work in a school that intentionally rejects traditional pedagogy.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline.
• Experience coaching athletics, facilitating outdoor or experiential education, managing camps, youth programs, or other cohort-based organizations.
• Experience developing or directing innovative education, EdTech, tutoring, nonprofit, or learning programs beyond traditional classroom instruction.
• Personal track record of exceptional accomplishment in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership.
• Deeply held belief that education should cultivate capable, resilient, independent young people rather than merely transmit academic content.

Pay

$150,000 annual W2 salary, paid weekly.

Benefits

• Health benefits begin on day one.