Learning Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

About the Role

At Alpha, students finish their academic coursework in only two hours daily through adaptive learning systems. This allows Guides to concentrate on transformational work: cultivating confidence, perseverance, communication skills, and the drive to take on difficult challenges. Your day won't involve standing before a class delivering content. Instead, you'll coach students through obstacles, recognize achievements, and demonstrate what rigorous standards look like when combined with authentic support.

You'll guide one K-3 cohort band—either Kindergarten-1st grade or 2nd-3rd grade. Half your time involves facilitating dynamic, one-hour workshops focused on life skills such as public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. The remaining half is dedicated to individual and small-group coaching, leveraging learning analytics to ensure every child progresses toward challenging weekly objectives.

Every moment counts. Students should emerge from your workshops more skilled than when they entered and finish coaching sessions with expanded belief in their capabilities. This position isn't suited for someone seeking to deliver predetermined lessons or oversee a traditional classroom. It's designed for someone passionate about inspiring young learners, energized by quantifiable results, and convinced that the right mentor can alter a child's future.

If you've motivated children as an educator, coach, camp director, youth mentor, or entertainer, a fundamentally different classroom experience awaits you here.

This is a full-time, on-campus position at an Alpha location. We conduct nationwide recruiting, so job postings may appear in neighboring cities without an Alpha campus. Available positions are 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. If another Alpha campus interests you, submit your application and specify your location preference—we'll evaluate you for the relevant opening.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate dynamic life-skills workshops that guide K-3 students toward mastery of communication, concentration, feedback, and other enduring competencies through hands-on engagement rather than passive listening.
• Provide individualized and small-group coaching, utilizing Coachbot analytics, validated motivation frameworks, and meaningful relationships to ensure every child remains on pace for challenging weekly learning targets.
• Evaluate life-skill proficiency using Alpha's Test2Pass system, continuing to coach students until they exhibit genuine competence—not merely attendance.
• Modify your coaching approach to match the developmental stage of your cohort, whether through songs, physical activity, and narratives for younger children or increased autonomy and responsibility for older students.
• Establish relationships where students feel secure enough to push past their perceived limitations.

What You Won't Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction from the front of the room. Students acquire academic knowledge through adaptive technology.
• Creating lesson plans from the ground up. You'll refine and customize established playbooks rather than designing new material.
• Observing students as they quietly complete computer-based work. Your function is hands-on coaching, encouragement, and relationship-building.
• Reducing standards when students face difficulties. Progress happens by elevating students to meet the target, not adjusting the target downward.
• Overseeing homework assignments, evaluating papers, or conducting standard parent correspondence.

Learning Coach Key Responsibilities

• Develop a K-3 cohort of students who are enthusiastic about attending school, regularly meet challenging learning targets, and acquire the life skills that equip them for long-term success beyond elementary education.

Basic 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 & Schedule

• This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits.
• All roles are year-long positions.
• The compensation level for this role is $120,000 USD/year.
• The payment period is weekly.