Leadership and Growth 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 believe the greatest service you can offer a student is to maintain the highest standard. You've excelled, created, or succeeded at a level most people only observe from a distance: elite-level competition, a prestigious university with honors, a highly competitive organization, or a venture you launched independently. Now imagine channeling that drive in a setting with K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials dedicated to their development, elevating them to standards they didn't believe they could meet. If maintaining elite expectations for students strikes you as unkind, this role isn't for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction so students can complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. This structure opens the remainder of the day for life skills, self-directed projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They require a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments establish the benchmark: someone who can assess group dynamics, establish culture, and guide them through resistance, distraction, and doubt.
Your role isn't instructional. AI manages the academic content. Your role is to inspire, coach, and maintain the same rigorous standard you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish ambitious objectives. Another forty percent is facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not engagement. The final twenty percent is establishing culture each morning through purposeful kickoffs that create an environment where mediocrity is unacceptable.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over management. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they trust to push them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's the same students, year after year, maturing 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 position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a means to something else. If your motivation to leave your current position is the mission, not the credential, apply now.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious objectives, and maintain accountability for execution
- Leading structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery through authentic storytelling drawn from your own elite background, then evaluating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass system
- Establishing the cultural standard each morning through purposeful kickoffs that reinforce high-performance expectations campus-wide
- Monitoring student performance in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on data, not intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families through rigorous standards, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-driven academic system manages instruction; you manage motivation
- Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your work is intensive coaching in small groups, not large-format teaching)
- Supervising other staff or advancing through an administrative track (this role centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational structure)
- Attending faculty meetings or managing school bureaucracy (your time remains student-focused)
- Reducing standards to achieve targets (if a student achieved 99%, your role is to determine what prevented 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 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 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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