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

About the role

The role is not to teach. Your role is to motivate. The most valuable thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving constructive feedback.
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% of their weekly app objectives, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance.
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery.
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners who require high energy and physical engagement to 8th graders who need candid conversation and accountability.
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students want to confide in; warmth creates the trust that gives you permission to push, and pushing communicates your belief in their potential.

Requirements

• Willing 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
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI handling instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined goals
• 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 resistant students into active, invested participants

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.

Benefits

On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area) — relocation assistance available

Pay

$100,000/year W2 salary with weekly pay

Schedule

Full-time (40 hours per week)