Client Success Director, Alpha - $200,000/year USD
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$200,000 USD per year (weekly payment)
Schedule
On-site full‑time, including early mornings, late afternoons, evening events 2–3× per month, and occasional weekends.
We need to preserve all substantive information. Let's extract details. About the role: from first paragraph: "Alpha School students, on average, experience 2.4 to 2.6 times the academic growth of traditional school students" — Forbes Alpha is hiring. On-site (multiple cities - see Requirements) W2 Employee $200K/yr Relocation assistance available Most schools have someone whose job is keeping parents happy. Alpha needs someone parents trust. That is a different job and a harder one: you will tell these families no, and they will think more of you for it. You'll be the person families call when something feels off, when they're uncertain, or when they want to share a moment they know you'll understand. You'll know each family well enough to anticipate what they need before they ask. You'll also be the person who says no when the answer is no: clearly, with the reasoning, without flinching. Roles that trade hard conversations for short-term satisfaction build polite, fragile communities. This one builds committed ones. You won't do it alone, and you won't do it around the Guides who mentor these students. You are the parent-facing side of a leadership partnership with your Guides: aligned with them before and after every sensitive conversation, protective of their authority with students, and willing to take family issues off their plate so they can coach. Ambiguous situations land on you. A student incident, a conflict between families, a decision you have to make on the spot with incomplete information. You decide, and you own the outcome. What you own beyond that depends on where your campus is in its life. At a launch or under-enrolled campus, you own school growth. At a mature campus with dedicated admissions staff, you concentrate on retention, referrals, and the depth of the community. Same role, different center of gravity, and it can shift as the campus matures. Alpha isn't a traditional school. Students finish core academics in two hours a day using AI-powered apps, then spend the rest of their time on public speaking, critical thinking, and real-world projects. No lectures. No busywork. Top 1% results nationwide. The families who choose it are paying for something they believe in, and belief needs tending. You'll carry that conversation with every family, through every doubt, for as long as their child is enrolled. If defending an unconventional model to sophisticated skeptics sounds like a burden, this role isn't for you. If it sounds like the most interesting conversation you could be having, keep reading. We can condense but must preserve all substantive info; we can't omit details. However we can summarize but must not invent or summarize away detail. The instruction: "Preserve ALL substantive information; do NOT invent or summarize away detail." That suggests we should not omit details; we need to keep them. But we can still use prose to convey same info, not bullet points. It's okay to rephrase as long as we keep all details. However it's risky to miss some. Safer to include the paragraphs as is, maybe split intotags. We can keep the introductory text as About the role paragraph(s). Then Responsibilities: list from "What You Will Be Doing" and "What You Won't Be Doing". Also "Key Responsibilities Four things sit on your desk at Alpha:" etc. We need to ensure we don't duplicate lines. We'll extract unique responsibilities. Let's list responsibilities from text: - Own the relationship with every family on campus, and lead the hard conversations. - Find the real concern, deliver a clear decision, hold it, and follow through until it stays resolved. - Defend Alpha's model through screen-time worries, skeptical relatives, and moments of doubt. - Operate as the parent-facing co-leader alongside your Guides. - Align before and after sensitive conversations, protect the coaching relationship they hold with students, take family issues off their plate, and make sure families always know who owns what. - Make the real-time calls in ambiguous student and family situations, and route child-safety, legal, and high-risk matters through the correct escalation path immediately. - Telling those two apart on the spot is the judgment this job turns on. - Build the community: campus traditions, parent networks, and local partnerships, each with a defined outcome behind it, plus the trusted parent champions who become the campus's most credible voice. - Own the growth contribution your campus phase calls for, against outcomes agreed up front and tracked as the campus changes. - At a launch or under-enrolled campus: developing local demand and personally owning admissions follow-through to enrollment. - At a mature campus: retention, referrals, and clean handoffs to admissions. What You Won’t Be Doing: - Passing concerns along to someone else. - Keeping the peace by saying yes, softening a standard, bending the model, or treating parent concerns as a ticket queue rather than as relationships that need boundaries. - Escalating every ambiguous situation to avoid owning the call, or at the other extreme, sitting on something that genuinely belongs with campus leadership, safety, or legal. - Taking over the mentoring and coaching decisions that belong to your Guides, or leaving Guides to absorb parent issues you should have resolved. - Routine school administration, desk work, or waiting for a playbook, an established process, or a full team before you act. Also "Key Responsibilities Four things sit on your desk at Alpha: the trust, retention, and advocacy of every current family; the parent-facing partnership with your Guides and the real-time judgment calls that come with it; the campus's community life; and the growth contribution your campus's phase requires. Build a campus where families stay, Guides feel backed, and hard decisions get made quickly and credibly." We can incorporate that as part of responsibilities. Now Requirements: - Live within commuting distance of one of these campuses, or relocate within 60 days: Boca Raton, FL; Burlington, VT; Jackson Hole, WY; Las Vegas, NV; Palm Beach, FL; Park City, UT; Tulsa, OK - On-site full-time, including early mornings, late afternoons, evening events 2–3x/month, and occasional weekends (this is schedule, but also requirement) - Legally authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship - 5+ years personally owning high-trust relationships with families, clients, donors, or members, where your judgment and follow-through changed retention or advocacy - A track record of holding firm decisions with demanding stakeholders without losing the relationship - Independent ownership of an ambiguous relationship, community, or growth outcome, with results you can point to as your own - Willing to own school growth and admissions follow-through when your campus phase calls for it - Clear, concise communication that earns confidence quickly with affluent, high-expectation families - Familiarity with independent, private, or non-traditional education - Hands-on daily use of AI tools, and genuine conviction about AI-powered education Nice-to-have (optional) we can ignore as not required. Benefits: - Health coverage (medical, dental, vision), life and disability insurance, voluntary benefits, tax-advantaged FSA, HSA, and commuter accounts, and a 401(k). - Paid time off and parental leave. - A one-time relocation allowance. Pay: - Compensation level for this role is $200,000 USD/year. - Payment period is weekly. Schedule: - On-site full-time, including early mornings, late afternoons, evening events 2–3x/month, and occasional weekends. We already have schedule in requirements but we can separate. Now produce HTML. We must not include markdown fences. Just raw HTML. Let's craft. We'll have:
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Alpha School students, on average, experience 2.4 to 2.6 times the academic growth of traditional school students — Forbes Alpha is hiring. On‑site (multiple cities – see Requirements) W2 Employee $200K/yr Relocation assistance available. Most schools have someone whose job is keeping parents happy. Alpha needs someone parents trust. That is a different job and a harder one: you will tell these families no, and they will think more of you for it. You'll be the person families call when something feels off, when they're uncertain, or when they want to share a moment they know you'll understand. You'll know each family well enough to anticipate what they need before they ask. You'll also be the person who says no when the answer is no: clearly, with the reasoning, without flinching. Roles that trade hard conversations for short‑term satisfaction build polite, fragile communities. This one builds committed ones. You won't do it alone, and you won't do it around the Guides who mentor these students. You are the parent‑facing side of a leadership partnership with your Guides: aligned with them before and after every sensitive conversation, protective of their authority with students, and willing to take family issues off their plate so they can coach. Ambiguous situations land on you. A student incident, a conflict between families, a decision you have to make on the spot with incomplete information. You decide, and you own the outcome. What you own beyond that depends on where your campus is in its life. At a launch or under‑enrolled campus, you own school growth. At a mature campus with dedicated admissions staff, you concentrate on retention, referrals, and the depth of the community.