Description
"We are never going to lower the standard for any kid — instead we're going to raise the support to help them get there."
— Braden, Head Guide, Alpha Austin
Alpha is hiring.
- In person at the Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ — relocation support provided
- $150,000/year
- Full-time
Most elementary schools lower the bar when a child struggles. You raise it. You believe a six-year-old is capable of far more than a traditional classroom ever asks of them, and you have used data to prove it more than once.
Alpha runs on a two-hour learning model. Adaptive apps teach academics in the morning, which clears your day for the work that actually changes a child's life: motivation, life skills, coaching, and accountability. You personally own a cohort of K-3 students while coaching the Guides (Alpha's term for the adults who coach and inspire the kids) responsible for their daily progress. You stay hands-on every day, not managing from an office down the hall.
A normal day moves between three things. You read performance data and Coachbot analytics to find which students and Guides are off track. You run coaching conversations that send people away with a specific next step instead of vague encouragement. And you hold the attention of a room full of five- to nine-year-olds through a workshop on public speaking, focus, or giving and receiving feedback.
As you discover what works, you write it down. The playbooks you build become the standard every other Guide follows, so your impact grows from one cohort to the whole level. Proving you can scale that excellence is how you grow into bigger leadership here.
If lowering expectations feels like kindness to you, this is the wrong job. If raising them feels like respect, apply.
What you will be doing
- Coaching Guides and students using performance data, classroom observation, and direct feedback, then holding both accountable to measurable goals
- Facilitating one-hour live workshops for K-3 students on life skills such as public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback
- Running individual and small-group motivation sessions that connect each child's goals and interests to real academic progress
- Building and refining playbooks that turn your best practices into repeatable systems other Guides can execute consistently
- Training Guides on those playbooks and modeling excellence in facilitation so standards hold as the team grows
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering academic instruction or lecturing from the front of the room; adaptive apps teach the content while you coach the humans
- Lowering expectations when a student struggles
- Supervising from a distance the way instructional coaches and principals do; you stay embedded with your own cohort daily
- Owning the entire campus's budget, operations, and parent relationships; a Campus Lead carries that so you can stay focused on student and Guide outcomes
- Defending traditional teaching methods or following a conventional K-12 curriculum
Key responsibilities
Deliver Alpha's three promises to every K-3 student: they love school, learn twice as fast, and build exceptional life skills and independence.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work in person at the Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; relocation support is provided
- Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related field
- At least 5 years working with elementary-aged children (roughly ages 5 to 9)
- Experience leading a team of 5 or more people, including authority to hire and to remove people based on performance outcomes
- Experience building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, or initiative from the ground up, not inheriting an existing one
- Comfortable working in a school that rejects traditional teaching methods
- Legally authorized to work in the United States
This role sits closer to a consulting mandate than a classroom job: you are brought in to diagnose what's off-track using data, then redesign the system, not just execute inside someone else's playbook. If your background is in advising, assessing, and rebuilding programs rather than running them exactly as handed to you, the requirements above will read as familiar territory.
The team-leadership requirement matters especially here: you're not just making recommendations, you have actually hired, managed, and removed people based on outcomes. And the "ground-up build" requirement rules out roles where you inherited a mature program and kept it running — Alpha wants evidence you've built the thing, not just maintained it.
- Master's degree in a related field
- Track record using metrics, dashboards, or analytics to diagnose problems and drive measurable improvement
- Experience coaching or managing other adults toward measurable outcomes, not just doing the work yourself
- Background in youth development, camp leadership, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment where motivation was central
- Comfort and skill facilitating or public speaking in front of rooms full of young children
- In person at the Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ — relocation support provided
- $150,000/year
- Full-time
Most elementary schools lower the bar when a child struggles. You raise it. You believe a six-year-old is capable of far more than a traditional classroom ever asks of them, and you have the data from past engagements to prove it.
Alpha runs on a two-hour learning model. Adaptive apps teach academics in the morning, which clears your day for the work that actually changes a child's life: motivation, life skills, coaching, and accountability. You personally own a cohort of K-3 students while coaching the Guides (Alpha's term for the adults who coach and inspire the kids) responsible for their daily progress. You stay hands-on every day, embedded in the work you're advising on, not delivering a report and moving to the next client.
A normal day moves between three things. You read performance data and Coachbot analytics to find which students and Guides are off track. You run coaching conversations that send people away with a specific next step instead of vague encouragement. And you hold the attention of a room full of five- to nine-year-olds through a workshop on public speaking, focus, or giving and receiving feedback.
As you discover what works, you write it down. The playbooks you build become the standard every other Guide follows, so your impact grows from one cohort to the whole level. Proving you can scale that excellence is how you grow into bigger leadership here.
If lowering expectations feels like kindness to you, this is the wrong job. If raising them feels like respect, apply.
- Coaching Guides and students using performance data, classroom observation, and direct feedback, then holding both accountable to measurable goals
- Facilitating one-hour live workshops for K-3 students on life skills such as public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback
- Running individual and small-group motivation sessions that connect each child's goals and interests to real academic progress
- Building and refining playbooks that turn your best practices into repeatable systems other Guides can execute consistently
- Training Guides on those playbooks and modeling excellence in facilitation so standards hold as the team grows
- Delivering academic instruction or lecturing from the front of the room; adaptive apps teach the content while you coach the humans
- Lowering expectations when a student struggles
- Supervising from a distance the way instructional coaches and principals do; you stay embedded with your own cohort daily
- Owning the entire campus's budget, operations, and parent relationships; a Campus Lead carries that so you can stay focused on student and Guide outcomes
- Defending traditional teaching methods or following a conventional K-12 curriculum
Deliver Alpha's three promises to every K-3 student: they love school, learn twice as fast, and build exceptional life skills and independence.
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- Supervising from a distance the way instructional coaches and principals do; you stay embedded with your own cohort daily \n
- Owning the entire campus's budget, operations, and parent relationships; a Campus Lead carries that so you can stay focused on student and Guide outcomes \n
- Defending traditional teaching methods or following a conventional K-12 curriculum \n
Nice to have
- Master's degree in a related field
- Track record using metrics, dashboards, or analytics to diagnose problems and drive measurable improvement
- Experience coaching or managing other adults toward measurable outcomes, not just doing the work yourself
- Background in youth development, camp leadership, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment where motivation was central
- Comfort and skill facilitating or public speaking in front of rooms full of young children
Applying for a role? Here’s what to expect.
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Interview with the hiring manager.
Pass proctored test.
Accept job offer.
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