Student Success 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 believe the greatest kindness you can offer a student is refusing to compromise the standard. You've competed, built, or succeeded at a level most people only read about—elite athletics, a top-tier university with honors, a highly selective firm, or a venture you grew from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that intensity into a room full of K-12 students who've never had someone with your credentials in their corner, holding them to standards they didn't know existed. If maintaining elite expectations feels unreasonable to you, this isn't the role for you.
Alpha leverages AI-powered 1-on-1 learning so students master core academics in roughly two hours per day. That leaves the rest of the day open for life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a trusted mentor whose personal accomplishments define the benchmark: someone who can assess the room, establish the culture, and guide them through resistance, distraction, and doubt.
Your role isn't instruction. AI manages the academic content. Your role is to inspire, coach, and hold students to the same exacting standard you've maintained for yourself. Forty percent of your week involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies obstacles and establishes ambitious objectives. Another forty percent is facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not engagement. The final twenty percent is establishing the tone each morning through focused kickoffs that build a culture where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here is depth, not management. You begin by mastering Alpha's playbook and earning credibility with students. Within months, you become the person they trust enough to push them beyond what they believed possible. The reward isn't upward mobility. It's the same students, year after year, maturing with you in their corner. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room full of adults in May.
This role remains student-facing. Students are the purpose, not a pathway to something else. If your motivation to leave your current position is the mission, not the credential, apply now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions using Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify blockers, establish ambitious objectives, and ensure students follow through on commitments
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery using authentic storytelling from your own elite background, then measuring mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass system
- Establishing the cultural standard each morning through focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance expectations across the campus
- Monitoring student progress in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on data, not intuition
- Developing trusted mentor relationships with students and families through high standards, consistency, and documented motivation plans
What you will NOT be doing
- Teaching lessons, creating curriculum, or grading assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic model manages instruction; you manage motivation
- Lecturing to a classroom of 30 students (your work is high-touch coaching in small groups, not broadcast instruction)
- Managing other staff or advancing through an administrative hierarchy (this role is about direct student impact, not organizational structure)
- Attending faculty meetings or navigating school bureaucracy (your time remains focused on students)
- Compromising the standard to meet metrics (if a student achieved 99%, your job is to determine what prevented them from reaching 100%)
Key responsibilities
Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one 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 measurably raised 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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