Kindergarten Teacher, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

About the role

You believe a six-year-old is capable of far more than a traditional classroom ever asks of them, and you have used data to prove it more than once. Alpha runs on a two-hour learning model: adaptive apps teach academics in the morning, which clears your day for coaching, life skills, motivation, and accountability. You personally own a cohort of K–3 students while coaching the Guides responsible for their daily progress. You stay hands-on every day, not managing from an office down the hall.

Responsibilities

• Coach Guides and students using performance data, classroom observation, and direct feedback; hold both accountable to measurable goals
• Facilitate one-hour live workshops for K–3 students on life skills such as public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback
• Run individual and small-group motivation sessions that connect each child’s goals and interests to real academic progress
• Build and refine playbooks that turn your best practices into repeatable systems other Guides can execute consistently
• Train Guides on those playbooks and model excellence in facilitation so standards hold as the team grows

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction or lecturing from the front of the room; adaptive apps teach the content while you coach the humans
• Lowering expectations when a student struggles
• Supervising from a distance the way instructional coaches and principals do; you stay embedded with your own cohort daily
• Owning the entire campus’s budget, operations, and parent relationships; a Campus Lead carries that so you can stay focused on student and Guide outcomes
• Defending traditional teaching methods or following a conventional K–12 curriculum

Requirements

• Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; relocation support is provided
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related field
• At least 5 years working with elementary-aged children (roughly ages 5 to 9)
• Experience leading a team of 5 or more people, including authority to hire and to remove people based on performance outcomes
• Experience building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, or initiative from the ground up, not inheriting an existing one
• Comfortable working in a school that rejects traditional teaching methods
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Nice-to-have

• Master’s degree in a related field
• Track record using metrics, dashboards, or analytics to diagnose problems and drive measurable improvement
• Experience coaching or managing other adults toward measurable outcomes, not just doing the work yourself
• Background in youth development, camp leadership, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment where motivation was central
• Comfort and skill facilitating or public speaking in front of rooms full of young children

About Alpha

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.

Pay

$150,000 USD/year, paid weekly.