Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the role

At Alpha, K-3 students complete academic learning through AI-driven apps in two hours each day. As a Guide, you lead one cohort band—either K-1 (Kindergarten–1st) or 2-3 (2nd–3rd)—and adjust your energy, pacing, and workshops to fit that group.

Responsibilities

• Running one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, adapting the playbook to your group rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group motivation sessions that ensure every student stays on track for weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you have built with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill, and supporting students who do not pass until they achieve mastery.
• Moving kindergarten-aged children through playful activities while holding second and third graders to concrete, measurable expectations.
• Being the warm adult kids are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not allow them to settle for less.

Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
• A Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• A personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• A natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• A track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.