Student Excellence Coach $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 understand that setting a high bar and refusing to lower it is the most respectful thing you can offer a student. Your background includes achievement at a level most people only observe from the outside: elite-level athletics, graduation with distinction from a top-tier institution, acceptance into a highly selective firm, or a venture you launched and grew independently. Now imagine channeling that rigor into a setting with K-12 students who have never encountered someone like you—someone who will push them toward standards they didn't believe they could meet. If the idea of maintaining elite expectations feels excessive to you, this is not your role.
Alpha deploys AI-powered 1-on-1 learning that enables students to complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remainder of their day is dedicated to life skills, passion-driven 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 coaching through resistance, distraction, and internal doubt.
Your role is not instructional. AI delivers the academic content. Your responsibility is to motivate, coach, and apply the same exacting standard you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies obstacles and establishes ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not engagement alone. The final twenty percent is spent leading focused morning sessions that set a campus culture where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's framework and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The return isn't a title change. It's continuity with the same students, year over year, as they mature with you as their advocate. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults in May.
This role remains student-centered. Students are the mission, not a pathway to something else. If you're seeking to leave your current position because of the mission itself, not the credential it offers, apply now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions informed by Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on credible examples from your own elite background, and verifying mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the campus cultural tone each morning with focused kickoff sessions that reinforce high-performance standards
- Monitoring student progress continuously and modifying coaching approaches based on evidence, not intuition
- Developing trusted mentorship relationships with students and families grounded in high expectations, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-driven academic platform manages instruction; you manage motivation
- Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your focus is high-touch coaching in intimate groups, not one-to-many instruction)
- Supervising other personnel or advancing through an administrative career path (this role centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational structure)
- Attending faculty meetings or managing school bureaucracy (your time remains student-focused)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your role is to understand what prevented 100%)
Key responsibilities
Lead exceptional student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (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 roles where you demonstrably improved others' performance
- Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; or New York City, NY (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 coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability settings such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Demonstrated youth development through mentoring outside academic contexts (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Ability to present to and establish trust with high-expectation families investing in premium private school tuition
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