Academic 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 gift you can give a student is to refuse to compromise standards. You've achieved, competed, or built something at a level most people only observe from a distance: elite-level athletics, a distinguished degree from a top-tier institution, a position at a highly selective firm, or a venture you launched and grew yourself. Now imagine channeling that drive into a space with K-12 students who have never encountered someone like you—someone committed to pushing them toward standards they didn't believe they could meet. If the idea of maintaining elite expectations feels too demanding, this isn't for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 learning to enable students to complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. This structure opens the remainder of the day for life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal achievements model the standard: someone capable of reading the environment, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and doubt.
Your role is not to teach. AI delivers the instructional material. Your role is to inspire, coach, and maintain the same rigorous standard you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning kickoffs that create a culture in which mediocrity is unacceptable.
The trajectory here is depth, not advancement into management. You begin by mastering Alpha's approach and earning credibility with students. 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 constant. 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 itself, not résumé enhancement, apply now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious objectives, and ensure accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your own elite background, and evaluating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the cultural standard each morning through focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance norms across the campus
- Monitoring student progress in real time and refining coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining high standards, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or grading work — Alpha's AI-driven academic system manages instruction; you manage motivation
- Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your focus is high-impact coaching in small settings, not large-group instruction)
- Supervising other staff or ascending an administrative track (this role centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational structure)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your attention remains on students)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to identify 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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