Student Performance Strategist $150,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
Most roles = hourly rate x 40 hrs x 50 weeks
Description
You consider it a disservice to students to soften standards. Your background includes competition, achievement, or creation at a level few people experience firsthand: elite-level athletics, graduation with distinction from a top university, a role at a highly selective organization, or a venture you founded and grew. Imagine channeling that rigor into a setting with K-12 students who have never encountered someone like you—someone determined to hold them to standards they haven't yet imagined reaching. If the idea of maintaining elite expectations for students feels too rigid, this role isn't for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to help students complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is devoted to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model the standard—someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing culture, and guiding students through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not instructional. The AI manages academic content delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, guide, and uphold the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching to identify obstacles and define stretch goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills sessions designed for competency, not engagement for its own sake. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning sessions that set expectations and cultivate a culture incompatible with mediocrity.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the person they allow to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The return isn't a title change. It's continuity—the same students, year over year, maturing with your support. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a pathway to something else. If your motivation to leave your current role is the mission rather than resume positioning, submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious objectives, and ensure accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills sessions designed for competency development, drawing on authentic examples from your own high-level experience, and verifying mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing cultural expectations each morning through purposeful kickoff sessions that reinforce high-performance norms across the campus
- Monitoring student development continuously and modifying coaching approaches based on evidence rather than intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentorship with students and their families through unwavering standards, reliability, and formalized motivation frameworks
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-based academic system manages instruction; your focus is student drive
- Presenting to large classrooms of 30 students (your work centers on high-touch coaching in intimate groups, not one-to-many teaching)
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing an administrative career path (this position prioritizes direct student influence, not organizational management)
- Attending traditional faculty meetings or dealing with institutional red tape (your schedule remains student-focused)
- Compromising standards to satisfy performance indicators (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to understand what prevented 100%)
Key responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill competency at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement within a highly competitive, internationally recognized field (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
- At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably elevated others' performance
- Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Orange County, CA; Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Kirkland (Seattle), WA (relocation support provided)
- Legal right to work in the United States
Nice to have
- Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition
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