Description
IMPORTANT NOTE: This position requires on-site presence at our Austin, Texas campus.
Traditional education focuses on teaching students what to think. This position centers on teaching them how to execute.
Alpha is constructing a fundamentally different high school—one where students don't passively absorb lectures or memorize facts. Instead, they build, ship, communicate, and advance. They launch projects, validate ideas, and acquire real-world capabilities that elude most adults. Your responsibility is ensuring they not only attempt these things, but accomplish them at a high standard.
You will collaborate directly with high school students as they launch businesses, manage projects, and cultivate the confidence, communication skills, and competence necessary for success beyond the classroom. You are not here to deliver theory. You are here to coach practical execution. You will establish rigorous expectations, maintain accountability, and drive students to produce work that holds up in professional contexts.
This position suits individuals who have accomplished something significant outside academic settings—built a product, cultivated an audience, operated within a startup, or delivered results in high-velocity environments—and wish to leverage that experience developing the next generation. If you seek a conventional teaching position, this is not it. If you want to influence how driven teenagers think, operate, and perform, this is your opportunity.
If you've achieved something substantial in your career and want to dedicate your days pushing motivated teenagers toward their full potential, this is your platform. Apply now
What you will be doing
- Design experiential workshops teaching students authentic social media growth strategies
- Mentor students on content strategy, spanning ideation through AI-powered optimization
- Support students in transforming their personal expertise domains into viable brands
- Provide 1:1 and small-group coaching to establish objectives, maintain execution consistency, and generate concrete deliverables
- Enforce rigorous standards across communication quality, work output, and commitment
- Mentor students through applied projects (entrepreneurship, marketing, coding, etc.) while demanding measurable outcomes
- Monitor student advancement across the 3 C's and take corrective action when performance declines
- Maintain transparent communication with students and parents regarding progress, deficiencies, and recommended actions
What you will NOT be doing
- Presenting conventional lectures or following standardized curricula
- Evaluating homework assignments or emphasizing abstract academic concepts
- Accommodating disengaged students or compromising standards for comfort
- Working within a sluggish, bureaucratic educational system
Key responsibilities
Produce quantifiable improvement in students' confidence, communication, and practical capability by coaching them toward sustained high-level execution.
Candidate requirements
- Proven record of significant personal achievement in at least one practical domain: company building, audience development, revenue generation, research publication, high-level competition, or equivalent
- Robust coaching and mentoring capabilities, with demonstrated ability to motivate teenagers
- 3+ years coaching/mentoring teenagers
- Superior communication and presentation abilities
- AI/tech proficiency (ChatGPT, Claude, etc.)
- Willing to work on-site in Austin, TX. Relocation assistance is available
- Able to work in the US without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Extensive expertise in at least one applied field (entrepreneurship, medicine, sales, technology, creative industries, finance, athletics) that you can integrate into sessions and workshops with precision
- Background working within a startup or high-growth organization at any capacity
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