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

About the role

You'll work with high school students who are building companies with genuine $1M upside potential. These aren't classroom exercises or hypothetical scenarios. You'll dedicate approximately 60-65% of your time to individual coaching sessions: pinpointing where founders are encountering obstacles, determining the most impactful next step, and ensuring accountability to concrete action plans. The remaining 35-40% divides between overseeing academic performance and facilitating workshops designed to build practical capabilities, not merely theoretical knowledge.

This role differs fundamentally from traditional teaching. You are accountable for comprehensive student outcomes: venture advancement, academic performance, and personal development simultaneously. You'll leverage dashboards, business progress reports, and academic metrics to coach with data-driven precision rather than instinct alone. When academic performance begins to decline? You address it proactively before it escalates. When a venture loses momentum? You identify the actual bottleneck, not the easier conversation.

You'll begin by understanding each student's business, their core strengths, and their recurring challenges. Within several months, you become the advisor whose guidance they genuinely trust, precisely because you've operated in similar environments yourself. The fulfillment comes from witnessing a 16-year-old arrive with a concept and depart with an operational enterprise, the organizational discipline to sustain it, and academic results that preserve all future opportunities.

What You Will Be Doing

• Providing 1:1 coaching to student founders on strategic direction, execution tactics, and scaling decisions — consuming approximately two-thirds of your weekly schedule
• Analyzing student dashboards, venture updates, and academic metrics to assess progress and establish actionable next steps
• Tracking academic results and proactively addressing issues when concentration or prioritization begins to falter
• Designing and delivering workshops that produce tangible, immediately applicable learning outcomes
• Facilitating stand-ups, review sessions, and group conversations that maintain student commitment to their stated objectives

What You Won't Be Doing

• Conducting traditional lectures or adhering to predetermined curricula (you enable experiential learning, not conventional classroom teaching)
• Offering generalized mentorship or inspirational messages without concrete action commitments and follow-through
• Handling student administrative tasks — calendar management, documentation, or admissions processes
• Attending lengthy faculty meetings or navigating institutional red tape (your focus remains concentrated on direct student engagement)

Key Responsibilities

Propel student founders toward ventures with $1M potential while simultaneously maintaining their academic trajectory.

Basic Requirements

• Must be available to work on-site at Alpha High School in Austin, TX (we provide relocation support)
• Minimum 2 years of experience coaching or developing others (whether direct reports, colleagues, or clients) including a concrete example of a coaching engagement and measurable results achieved
• Professional background with ownership of critical outcomes or performance metrics, including at least one example showing $500,000+ in annual revenue influence
• Minimum 1 year working with younger individuals (students, emerging professionals, or youth program participants) on initiatives, educational objectives, or entrepreneurial efforts
• Legal authorization to work in the United States

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Personal experience founding, co-founding, or running a startup or early-stage venture
• Background as a Chief of Staff, program manager, or high-impact individual contributor with complete outcome ownership
• Proficiency with AI applications (such as ChatGPT, Copilot) to enhance coaching preparation, data analysis, or stakeholder communication
• Experience in K-12 education, EdTech, or initiatives combining academic rigor with practical application (such as accelerators, project-based curricula, or entrepreneurship programs)

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

• Full-time, W2 employee position
• Annual salary of $150,000, distributed weekly
• Health benefits begin on day one
• Year-long position