Youth Development Manager, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops on life skills (public speaking, concentration, giving and receiving feedback) for K-8 (elementary and middle school) cohorts, executing Alpha's playbook rather than creating content independently
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student analytics and Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal completion
• Coaching Guides on program adherence and standards enforcement, ensuring every session generates concrete improvement actions
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously developing other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance metrics on a weekly basis to identify underperformance before it escalates

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching or tutoring students on academic content. Students complete learning through self-guided apps without adult presence in the room.
• Creating curriculum or developing lesson plans independently. The playbook is established; the expectation is faithful execution, not innovation.
• Coaching Guides on instructional methodology. Guides don't instruct, so you're coaching energy, motivation, and accountability practices instead.
• Accepting 99% when the standard is 100%. Upholding the standard demonstrates your belief in their capacity to reach it.
• Serving as the "empathy default" that exists in every school. Students receive connection here, along with direct feedback and meaningful consequences.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-campus in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a comparable field
• Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions
• Direct experience working with kids aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
• Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, business, school, or initiative from the ground up
• Proven use of data and metrics to set weekly goals and drive decisions, not just report results
• Likely the outlier in traditional education: overly data-focused, excessively results-oriented, too comfortable challenging conventional approaches with young people
• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field (nice-to-have)
• Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth ministry at a scale requiring cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned from classroom teaching to program building or operational roles: EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
• Early-career history of exceptional personal performance — academic, athletic, or professional — prior to entering leadership
• Conviction that the current education system is fundamentally broken and personal commitment to rebuilding it

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field (nice-to-have)
• Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth ministry at a scale requiring cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned from classroom teaching to program building or operational roles: EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
• Early-career history of exceptional personal performance — academic, athletic, or professional — prior to entering leadership
• Conviction that the current education system is fundamentally broken and personal commitment to rebuilding it

About Alpha

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.