Early Childhood Educator, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the Role

At Alpha, academic work is completed in just two hours daily through adaptive learning technology. This structure allows Guides to dedicate their time to transformational work: developing confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficult challenges. You won't stand at the front of a room delivering lessons. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, acknowledge their progress, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.

You'll oversee one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time goes to facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on essential life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining half involves coaching students both individually and in small groups, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives.

This position isn't designed for someone seeking to deliver curriculum or oversee a traditional classroom. It's suited for someone who enjoys motivating young learners, operates well with measurable results, and believes the right mentor can alter a child's path.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students toward mastery of communication, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills through active engagement rather than passive listening.
• Provide one-on-one and small group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation systems, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child stays aligned with ambitious weekly learning objectives.
• Evaluate life-skill mastery using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, guiding students until they show genuine understanding—not merely attendance.
• Adjust your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether that involves songs, movement, and narratives for younger children or increased independence and responsibility for older students.
• Cultivate relationships where students feel secure enough to push past what they believed were their limits.
• Develop a cohort of K-3 students who are excited to attend school, regularly meet ambitious learning goals, and acquire the life skills that position them to succeed well beyond elementary school.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Presenting academic lessons at a whiteboard. Students complete academics through adaptive software.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing lessons from scratch.
• Observing students work quietly on computers. Your role centers on active coaching, motivation, and meaningful interaction.
• Reducing expectations when students face difficulties. Success emerges from helping students meet the goal, not adjusting the goal downward.
• Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or managing routine parent communication.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings are available in La Jolla (San Diego); Orange County (Lake Forest); Los Angeles (South Bay, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu); San Francisco Bay Area (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Piedmont); Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton; Miami; Miami Beach; Palm Beach Gardens; Chicago; Boston; New York City; and Kirkland (Seattle area). Relocation assistance is available.
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years of experience working directly with children ages 4-9 through teaching, coaching, tutoring, camps, youth programs, or similar environments.
• A track record of motivating young children to achieve challenging goals, with specific examples of your impact.
• Comfort using AI-powered learning while focusing your own energy on coaching, motivation, and life-skill development.
• The ability to balance warmth with unwavering expectations.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

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.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year.

Schedule

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The payment period is weekly.