Career Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the role

This is not a teaching position. This is about driving motivation. The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you communicate belief in a student's potential, continue reading.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 groups focused on public speaking, concentration, feedback culture, and other transferable competencies, customizing the established framework and creating new modules when needed
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation meetings that drive every student to 100% completion of weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot performance data, Alpha's motivational infrastructure (campus currency, competitive rankings), and your personal rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass mastery-based evaluation for each life skill, then coaching students who fall short until they achieve passing standards
• Adjusting your approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high-energy and kinesthetic engagement to eighth graders needing candid dialogue and personal accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains rigorous expectations and the adult students actively seek out; relational warmth creates the foundation for demanding standards, and those demands signal your confidence in their capacity

Requirements

• Available 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 field
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, athletic coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate programs, camp leadership, theater, or extracurricular initiatives where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable outcomes
• Demonstrated personal record of exceptional performance (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining rigorous standards for others reflects consistent practice, not adopted persona
• Narrative ability and commanding presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating volume
• Proven success converting disengaged or reluctant students into motivated, active 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.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one

Pay

$100,000 annual W2 compensation, disbursed weekly

Schedule

Full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position