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

About the Role

You understand that true care means holding students to the highest standard, not lowering expectations. Your background includes competition, achievement, or building something at a level most only observe from a distance: elite-level sports, graduating with distinction from a highly selective university, working at a top-tier firm, or launching a venture from the ground up.

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, allowing students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments demonstrate what's possible: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding students through resistance, lack of focus, and uncertainty.

Responsibilities

Your responsibility is motivation, coaching, and applying the same rigorous standards you've maintained for yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching to identify obstacles and establish challenging goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement alone. The final twenty percent focuses on morning sessions that set daily expectations and reinforce a culture where average performance isn't acceptable.

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish ambitious objectives, and maintain accountability for execution
• Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your own elite background, and evaluating mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework
• Establishing campus-wide cultural expectations each morning through focused sessions that reinforce high-performance standards
• Monitoring student development in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
• Cultivating trusted mentorship relationships with students and families through consistent high standards and documented motivation strategies

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
• At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance
• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Orange County, CA; Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Kirkland (Seattle), WA (relocation support provided)
• Legal right to work in the United States

Nice-to-have requirements include background in elite competitive athletics, experience in high-accountability environments, and track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings.

Benefits

This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits. All roles are year-long positions.

Pay

The compensation level for this role is $150,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly.

Schedule

The role involves working in-person at an Alpha campus, with relocation support provided if necessary.