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

About the role

This role is not about teaching. It is about motivation. The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their target is to insist it is not yet complete.

Responsibilities

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 student groups on subjects including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other transferable competencies, modifying the standard playbook and creating new sessions when needed
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions designed to drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (campus currency, performance leaderboards), and your personal rapport with each student to overcome reluctance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, then coaching students who fall short until they achieve passing performance
• Adjusting your approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and kinesthetic engagement to eighth graders needing candid dialogue and personal accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge communicates your confidence in their potential

Requirements

• Available to work full-time 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 (including classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp leadership, 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 allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate programs, camp leadership, theater, or after-school initiatives where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward defined outcomes
• Demonstrated personal achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) indicating that holding others to rigorous standards reflects consistent practice, not adopted rhetoric
• Narrative ability and presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without volume escalation
• Proven success converting disengaged or resistant students into willing, 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.

Benefits

The compensation level for this role is $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.