Lead Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

About the role

This role sits at the center of Alpha’s mission: you’ll develop the Guides who work directly with students, helping them become exceptional coaches rather than classroom instructors. You’ll lead life skills workshops that students remember years later, use performance data to coach Guides and students back to excellence, and lead your own student cohort while modeling the standards you expect. Every Guide you coach influences dozens of students; every improvement you make compounds across hundreds of young lives.

Responsibilities

• Coach and develop Guides to deliver Alpha’s coaching model with consistency, energy, and uncompromising standards.
• Lead engaging life skills workshops covering communication, focus, feedback, leadership, and resilience for K–8 students using proven playbooks.
• Use student and Guide performance data to identify coaching opportunities, remove barriers, and drive measurable improvements every week.
• Lead motivation sessions that help every student take ownership of ambitious goals and consistently achieve them.
• Maintain your own student cohort while modeling the coaching excellence and accountability you expect from every Guide.

What you won’t be doing:

• Teaching academic subjects (students learn core academics independently through AI-powered learning applications).
• Writing lesson plans or designing curriculum—your job is exceptional coaching, not creating instructional materials.
• Managing classrooms through lectures, worksheets, or behavior systems—students own their learning, and you coach the habits that make success possible.
• Lowering expectations to avoid difficult conversations—high standards and genuine belief in every student’s potential go hand in hand.
• Measuring success by activity instead of outcomes—results matter more than effort alone.

Basic Requirements

• Willingness to work on campus in Dallas, TX; Oklahoma City, OK; Austin, TX; or Fort Worth, TX (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a related field.
• Experience leading an ongoing team of five or more adults, with final or primary authority to select team members and make performance-based termination decisions.
• Sustained, recurring responsibility for the learning, behavior, motivation, or growth of children ages 5–14 in an educational, developmental, athletic, or youth leadership setting.
• Track record of building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, business, or initiative from the ground up.
• Proven ability to use performance metrics and data to diagnose problems, prioritize actions, and deliver measurable results.
• Willingness to work in a school that deliberately rejects traditional pedagogy.
• Legally authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master’s degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field.
• Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education, directing camps, youth programs, or other cohort-based organizations.
• Experience building or leading innovative education, EdTech, tutoring, nonprofit, or learning programs outside traditional classroom teaching.
• Personal history of exceptional achievement in academics, athletics, entrepreneurship, or leadership.
• Strong conviction that education should develop capable, resilient, independent young people rather than simply deliver academic content.

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 include Guides, operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. It’s a fast-moving, ambitious, student-focused culture for builders who want to improve the system, not maintain it.