Performance 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 refusing to lower the bar is the most generous act you can offer a student. You've competed, created, or excelled at a level the majority only observe from the outside: elite-level athletics, graduation with honors from a top-tier institution, entry into a highly competitive firm, or a venture you launched independently. Now imagine channeling that rigor into a classroom of K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials, prepared to elevate them to standards they never imagined they could meet. If the idea of enforcing elite expectations strikes you as too demanding, this isn't the right fit.
Alpha employs AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to enable students to 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 need a credible mentor whose track record defines the benchmark: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role isn't instructional. AI delivers the academic content. Your responsibility is to inspire, coach, and apply the same exacting standards you've lived by. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group sessions that identify obstacles and define stretch goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for competency, not engagement. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning kickoffs that cultivate a culture intolerant of mediocrity.
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 allow to challenge them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's continuity with the same students across years, supporting their evolution. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to adults in May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the mission, not a platform for career progression. If you're motivated to leave your current role by purpose rather than resume enhancement, apply now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance metrics to identify barriers, establish challenging objectives, and enforce accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for competency using authentic examples from your own high-achievement background, then validating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the campus cultural standard each morning through deliberate kickoffs that reinforce rigorous performance norms
- Monitoring student advancement continuously and refining coaching approaches using data-informed strategies, not intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentorship with students and their families through unwavering standards, reliability, and formalized motivation frameworks
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, creating curricula, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-based academic platform manages instruction; your focus is on motivation
- Presenting to a full classroom of 30 students (your efforts center on intensive coaching in intimate settings, not mass instruction)
- Supervising other personnel or ascending a management structure (this position prioritizes direct student influence, not organizational advancement)
- Attending staff meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy (your energy remains concentrated on students)
- Compromising standards to satisfy quotas (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to determine what prevented 100%)
Key responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill proficiency at Alpha's most demanding 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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