Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

About the Role

Alpha is hiring a Coach to lead life-skills workshops and motivation sessions for K-8 students. This is a full-time, on-site role focused on pushing students to achieve their weekly learning goals and master key life skills through one-on-one coaching and group workshops. The role is centered on motivation and relationship-building, not academic instruction—academics are delivered through AI-powered adaptive learning apps.

What You Will Be Doing

• Running one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback
• Running daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that push every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards)
• Administering the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coaching any student who does not pass until they do
• Adapting the workshop playbook, and building new sessions when you find a gap, so the same material lands with a kindergartener and with an 8th grader
• Being both the adult who holds the standard and the adult your students choose to talk to

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Lecturing at a whiteboard, writing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic instruction lives in the apps
• Running standardized test prep or answering for a class-wide test score
• Handling parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership owns all parent-facing work
• Crowd-controlling 30 students at once; cohorts are small and behavior work here is 1:1 coaching
• Supervising kids at computers; motivation here is active and personal

Coach Key Responsibilities

• Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort hits their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and leaves the year saying they loved school

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; or Austin, Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, or Brownsville, TX – relocation support provided
• Bachelor's degree in any subject
• At least 3 years working directly with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom teaching, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work
• Comfortable letting adaptive learning software deliver the academic instruction while you own motivation and life-skills coaching
• A personal record of high achievement, academic, athletic, or professional, that made holding a hard standard a habit rather than a posture
• Stage presence strong enough to hold a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voice
• Legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, or after-school program work where you were personally accountable for kids hitting a specific goal
• Experience teaching social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curricula
• A student you can name who went from resistant or checked out to fully engaged, and the specific thing you did
• Daily use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini

Pay

• $100,000 USD/year
• Weekly payment period

Benefits

• Immediate access to benefits (W2 employee position)

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused—it's for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.