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

About the Role

Your role is to help a child believe in capabilities they previously doubted. Alpha students finish their academic coursework in two hours daily through adaptive learning systems, allowing Guides to concentrate on transformative work: cultivating confidence, resilience, communication skills, and the drive to embrace difficulty. You won't deliver prepared lessons from the front of a classroom. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, acknowledge achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.

You'll oversee one K-3 cohort band—Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time goes to facilitating dynamic, hour-long workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and receiving feedback. The remaining half involves individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to guide every child toward ambitious weekly targets. Each interaction carries weight; students should exit your workshops with expanded capabilities and leave coaching sessions convinced they can accomplish more than they previously imagined.

This position is designed for someone who enjoys motivating young learners, values measurable progress, and believes an effective coach can alter a child's path. If you've inspired children as an educator, coach, camp counselor, youth mentor, or performer, you'll discover an unconventional classroom environment here.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate engaging life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students toward mastery of communication, concentration, feedback reception, and other foundational skills through hands-on participation instead of lecture-based instruction.
• Provide one-on-one and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, established motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to maintain every child's progress toward ambitious weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill mastery using Alpha's Test2Pass framework, coaching students until they show genuine comprehension—not merely attendance.
• Modify your coaching approach according to your cohort's developmental stage, whether that involves songs, physical activity, and narrative for younger children or increased independence and responsibility for older students.
• Establish relationships where students feel secure enough to reach beyond their perceived limitations.
• Develop a K-3 cohort of students who are enthusiastic about attending school, regularly accomplish ambitious learning objectives, and acquire the life skills that equip them for success well beyond elementary education.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction from a whiteboard. Academic learning occurs through adaptive software platforms.
• Creating curriculum materials from the ground up. You'll refine and customize proven playbooks rather than designing original lessons.
• Observing students as they work quietly on computers. Your function centers on active coaching, encouragement, and engagement.
• Reducing standards when students encounter difficulty. Achievement comes from supporting students to meet the goal, not adjusting the goal downward.
• Overseeing homework, grading assignments, or conducting routine parent correspondence.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at one of Alpha's campuses. Current openings are available in Palo Alto, Los Angeles (South Bay), Malibu, Orange County (Lake Forest), San Francisco, and Santa Monica, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton and Miami, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; and Seattle (Kirkland), WA. 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.
• Experience leading group activities for young children, with a concrete example of the structure or routine you used and how you kept the group engaged.
• A track record of motivating young children to achieve challenging goals, with specific examples of your impact.
• A concrete example of changing your approach based on feedback and the result.
• 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.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth sports, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori, progressive education, or high-engagement after-school programs.
• Personal experience achieving ambitious goals in academics, athletics, or your career.
• Outstanding storytelling or performance skills that naturally capture the attention of young children.
• Evidence of helping reluctant or shy children become confident, engaged participants.

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 $120,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.

Benefits

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits. All roles are year-long positions.