Youth Entrepreneurship Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD
About the Role
Your students are high schoolers building real companies with $1M potential. You'll spend 60-65% of your time in 1:1 coaching sessions: diagnosing where each founder is stuck, identifying the highest-leverage move, and holding them to a clear action plan. The other 35-40% splits between academic oversight and leading workshops that leave students with applied skills.
This is not a teaching job. You own student outcomes: venture progress, academic standing, and personal growth at the same time. You'll use dashboards, business updates, and academic data to coach with precision, not intuition.
What You Will Be Doing
- Coaching student founders 1:1 through strategy, execution, and growth decisions — roughly two-thirds of your week
- Using student dashboards, business updates, and academic data to diagnose progress and define next actions
- Monitoring academic performance and intervening early when focus or time management slips
- Preparing and facilitating workshops with clear applied-learning takeaways
- Leading stand-ups, debriefs, and group discussions that keep students accountable to their own goals
What You Won't Be Doing
- A pre-set curriculum or lecture format has no place here — you facilitate applied learning, not classroom instruction
- Providing general mentorship or motivational talks without follow-through on action items
- Managing student administration — scheduling, paperwork, or enrollment logistics
- Sitting through faculty meetings or navigating school bureaucracy (your time stays focused on students)
Key Responsibilities
- Drive student founders toward $1M-potential ventures while keeping them on track academically
Basic Requirements
- Willing to work on-site at Alpha High School in Austin, TX (relocation support provided)
- At least 2 years coaching or developing others (direct reports, peers, or clients) with a specific example of a coaching relationship and its outcomes
- Professional experience owning key outcomes or metrics, with at least one example demonstrating $500,000+ annual revenue impact
- At least 1 year working with young people (students, early-career professionals, or youth program participants) on projects, learning goals, or ventures
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
Nice-to-have Requirements
- Founded, co-founded, or operated a startup or early-stage business yourself
- Experience as a Chief of Staff, program lead, or high-performing individual contributor where you owned outcomes end-to-end
- Comfort using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) to support coaching prep, analysis, or communication
- Background in K-12 education, EdTech, or programs that blend academics with real-world application (accelerators, project-based learning, entrepreneurship programs)
About Alpha
Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It's for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.
Pay
$150,000 USD/year, paid weekly. This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits. All roles are year-long positions.