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

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other enduring skills, customizing the playbook for your group rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions to ensure every student stays on track for weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you've cultivated with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based evaluation, for each life skill, and coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery.
• Engaging kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, storytelling, physical activity, and playfulness while maintaining real, quantifiable standards for second and third graders.
• Serving as the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who will not permit them to settle for less.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures. Academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you.
• Building curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook and your job is to bring it to life.
• Passively monitoring children at computers. Motivation in this role is active, individualized, and continuous.
• Reducing a weekly target so a child can meet it. When a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal.
• Grading homework, conducting standardized test prep, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest doesn't exist here.

Basic 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).
• 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.
• Likely to be 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.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.