Academic Success 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 hold the line on high standards. You've performed, created, or succeeded at a level most people encounter only in headlines: elite competitive sports, graduation with honors from a top university, a position at a highly selective organization, or a company you launched from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that drive into a room full of K-12 students who have never had someone with your credentials standing beside them, raising them to benchmarks they didn't believe they could meet. If maintaining elite expectations feels too demanding to you, this isn't the right fit.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction so students complete core academics in roughly two hours each day. The remainder of their time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They require a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model the standard: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not instructional. AI delivers the academic content. Your role is to inspire, coach, and enforce the same rigorous standards 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 objectives. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not amusement. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning sessions that set daily expectations and cultivate a culture where mediocrity is not tolerated.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning students' trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond self-imposed 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 role remains student-centered. 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 leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish ambitious targets, and ensure students remain accountable for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on credible examples from your own elite background, then evaluating mastery using Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the performance culture each morning through focused opening sessions that reinforce high-expectation standards campus-wide
- Monitoring student performance in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on evidence, not intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentorship relationships with students and families through rigorous standards, reliability, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; you manage motivation
- Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your work centers on high-impact coaching in small settings, not large-scale teaching)
- Supervising other staff or advancing through an administrative track (this role focuses on direct student outcomes, not organizational structure)
- Attending faculty meetings or managing school bureaucracy (your focus remains on students)
- Compromising standards to meet metrics (if a student achieved 99%, your role is to identify what prevented 100%)
Key responsibilities
Lead exceptional student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally 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 measurably 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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