Student Performance Strategist, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

About the role

Alpha hires for roles with real student impact. This position stays student-facing and is about depth, not management. You coach students one-on-one and in small groups, lead life-skills workshops, and set the tone each morning to reinforce a culture where mediocrity isn’t an option. Your job is to motivate, coach, and hold students to the same uncompromising bar you’ve held yourself to. AI handles instructional content; you handle motivation.

Responsibilities

• Run 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions using Coachbot analytics and student progress data to diagnose blockers, set ambitious goals, and hold students accountable for follow-through
• Deliver structured life-skills workshops built for mastery using credible storytelling from your own elite experience, then assess mastery through Alpha’s Test2Pass system
• Set the cultural tone each morning through focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance expectations across the campus
• Track student progress in real time and adjust coaching strategies based on data, not instinct
• Build trusted mentor relationships with students and families through high standards, consistency, and documented motivation plans

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Designing lessons, building curriculum, or grading assignments — Alpha’s AI-powered academic model handles instruction; you handle motivation
• Lecturing to a classroom of 30 students (your work is high-touch coaching in small groups, not broadcast teaching)
• Managing other staff or climbing an administrative ladder (this role is about direct student impact, not organizational hierarchy)
• Sitting through faculty meetings or navigating school bureaucracy (your time stays focused on students)
• Lowering the bar to hit metrics (if a student scored 99%, your job is to figure out what kept them from 100%)

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; Santa Barbara, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; Park City, UT; or Kirkland (Seattle), WA (relocation support provided)
• Legal right to work in the United States

Nice-to-have

• Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
• Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
• Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
• Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition

Pay

$150,000 USD per year, paid weekly.