Elite Sports Mentor, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

Key Responsibilities

• Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
• At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance
• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation support provided)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
• Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
• Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
• Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition

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.

What You Will Be Doing

• Cultivating trusted mentoring relationships with students and families through consistent high standards and documented motivational strategies
• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious objectives, and ensure accountability for execution
• Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on authentic stories from your elite background, and measuring mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework
• Establishing the campus cultural standard each morning with focused sessions that reinforce high-performance expectations
• Monitoring student progress continuously and adapting coaching approaches based on evidence rather than intuition

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Designing lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments—Alpha's AI academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
• Delivering lectures to large groups of 30 students (your work is intensive coaching in small settings, not mass instruction)
• Supervising other staff or pursuing administrative advancement (this role centers on direct student influence, not organizational rank)
• Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-focused)
• Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is determining what prevented 100%)