Coaching Manager, Alpha - $200,000/year USD

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.

About the Role

Outstanding leaders understand that success isn't defined by their personal achievements. It's defined by the growth and accomplishments of those they lead. If you've developed high-performing teams, guided individuals to surpass expectations, and excel in settings where excellence is non-negotiable, this position provides an opportunity to leverage those capabilities in shaping future generations.

At Alpha, students don't sit through traditional lectures. They progress through academics via adaptive technology while Guides concentrate on coaching, inspiration, accountability, and life skills development. As a Lead Guide, you'll assemble and lead the team that brings this model to life—mentoring Guides, cultivating leaders, and establishing an environment where students routinely surpass expectations. This is not a traditional instructional coaching position, nor is it classroom teaching. You won't be evaluating lesson plans or observing lectures—because those don't exist here. Instead, you'll establish a culture of excellence through Guide coaching, facilitating impactful life skills workshops, and inspiring students toward ambitious objectives. Your performance will be evaluated based on student experience quality, team results, and your capacity to uphold rigorous standards while motivating others to reach them.

Alpha is constructing the world's premier K-12 experience. That demands leaders who have demonstrated their ability to elevate others' performance, execute objective, data-informed decisions, and champion innovative approaches rather than defend outdated conventions. If that reflects your leadership style, we want to connect with you.

This position is presently available at selected Alpha campuses: Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Orange County, CA; and Santa Barbara, CA. If you reside in any of these areas—or are enthusiastic about relocating—we encourage you to reach out. Exceptional candidates from other locations are also welcome to apply. As Alpha expands, we consistently connect outstanding leaders with opportunities throughout our growing campus network.

What You Will Be Doing

• Mentoring Guides to reliably provide exceptional student experiences while upholding Alpha's rigorous standards.
• Facilitating dynamic life skills workshops that cultivate communication, leadership, concentration, and other practical skills for K-12 students.
• Inspiring students to pursue ambitious learning objectives and maximize advancement in their self-directed academic pathways.
• Leveraging data, observation, and coaching dialogues to enhance Guide effectiveness and student results.
• Supporting the launch and establishment of new Alpha campuses by fostering a culture rooted in excellence, accountability, and ongoing improvement.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Conducting traditional academic classes or providing subject-specific lectures.
• Developing lesson plans or creating curriculum.
• Compromising standards to create superficial feelings of success rather than facilitating genuine mastery.
• Leading a team remotely without direct, regular coaching of students and Guides.
• Maintaining outdated methods simply because "that's the way it's always been done."

Responsibilities

• Guarantee that every student reliably experiences Alpha's three promises through developing high-performing Guides, facilitating compelling life skills experiences, and sustaining rigorous standards for student achievement.

Requirements

• Willingness to work on-site at an Alpha campus (relocation support available): Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Orange County, CA; Santa Barbara, CA.
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field; Master's degree preferred.
• At least 5 years of experience in education, coaching, learning and development, or a related leadership role.
• Experience leading and developing teams of five or more people, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions.
• Demonstrated success using data to drive performance improvements.
• Experience working with children ages 5-14 in an educational, coaching, or developmental setting.
• Experience building or launching a new team, program, business, school, or initiative, with willingness to help open a new campus from zero.
• Willingness to work in a school model that rejects traditional lecture-based pedagogy.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience coaching youth through athletics, debate, camps, or extracurricular programs.
• Exceptional public speaking and storytelling skills.
• A track record of achieving high levels of academic, professional, or athletic performance.
• Experience motivating teams through ambitious goals while maintaining high accountability.
• A passion for challenging conventional education and helping shape a new model for K-12 learning.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $200,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.

Schedule

This is a full-time, year-long position.

Benefits

Immediate access to benefits as a W2 employee (details available at this link).