eSports Coach $150,000 USD/year
Description
- On-campus at an Alpha location: Denver, CO · Atlanta, GA · Oklahoma City, OK · Tulsa, OK · Keller (Fort Worth), TX · The Woodlands (Houston), TX · Park City (Salt Lake City), UT · Toronto, Canada
- $150,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly. Health coverage begins day one.
- Support for relocation is provided
The kindest thing you can tell a student who achieved 99% is that they haven't met the standard. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If you find yourself agreeing, read on.
Alpha students complete their academic work in two hours daily using AI-driven, self-guided applications. No traditional teachers. No lectures. No classroom content delivery. This structure allows you to focus on what genuinely transforms outcomes: facilitating high-impact workshops on communication skills, concentration, and constructive feedback; driving students toward complete goal achievement using live analytics; and developing the Guides who work with you.
A typical morning might begin with individual coaching for a Guide, analyzing performance metrics and pinpointing where a group is underperforming. Midday, you're facilitating a structured workshop with students, executing a playbook exercise on feedback dynamics. Your afternoons transition to motivational work: engaging individual students, identifying their intrinsic motivators, and leveraging Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a reluctant middle schooler. You maintain direct responsibility for your own cohort, keeping your skills current alongside those you're developing in others.
You're likely the outlier in educational environments: excessively metrics-oriented, excessively outcome-focused, excessively willing to question conventional approaches with students. Alpha may be the first environment where you truly belong. You'll begin coaching other Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable results consistently, your influence on campus-wide programming expands.
Maintain the standard. Transform the student. Submit your application.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating structured one-hour workshops on essential life competencies (communication, concentration, feedback exchange) for elementary and middle school cohorts (K-8), executing Alpha's established playbook rather than creating original content
- Conducting motivational interventions using student performance data and Alpha's incentive architecture (campus currency, performance rankings) to achieve 100% goal completion across your cohort
- Developing Guides in program adherence and standards maintenance, ensuring every coaching interaction yields specific improvement actions
- Managing your own student cohort concurrently with Guide development responsibilities
- Monitoring student engagement scores, completion metrics, and Guide performance indicators on a weekly basis to identify declining performance before escalation
What you will NOT be doing
- Providing direct academic instruction or subject tutoring. Students progress through self-directed applications independently, without adult supervision of content.
- Creating original curricula or developing lesson plans independently. The playbook is established; success depends on precise execution, not creative innovation.
- Training Guides in instructional methodology. Since Guides don't deliver traditional instruction, you're developing their capacity for energy management, student motivation, and accountability enforcement.
- Accepting 99% performance when 100% is the standard. Maintaining expectations demonstrates your belief in student capability.
- Serving as the campus emotional safety net. Students receive genuine connection alongside honest assessment and meaningful consequences.
Key responsibilities
Execute Alpha's three core commitments for every student under your supervision: genuine enthusiasm for school, learning velocity double that of traditional classrooms, and measurable development of practical life competencies.
Candidate requirements
- Available for on-site work at Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline
- Minimum 5 years' experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable sector
- Demonstrated history of managing teams of 5+ adults, including recruitment and performance-based termination authority
- Hands-on experience working with children ages 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts
- Experience building, launching, or substantially scaling a program, team, enterprise, school, or initiative from inception
- Documented use of analytics and performance metrics to establish weekly objectives and inform decisions, beyond simple reporting
- Legal authorization for employment in the United States or Canada
Nice to have
- Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related discipline
- Background in athletic coaching, wilderness/experiential programming, camp direction, or youth ministry at sufficient scale to require cohort management and outcome measurement
- Transitioned from classroom instruction to program design or operations: EdTech, tutoring enterprises, youth-focused nonprofits, or school intervention systems
- Early-career pattern of exceptional individual achievement — academic, athletic, or professional — prior to leadership transition
- Conviction that traditional education systems are fundamentally inadequate and personal commitment to systemic redesign
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