Elite 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 understand that the greatest kindness you can offer a student is to refuse lowering standards. You've competed, created, or succeeded at a level most people only observe from a distance: elite competition, a distinguished degree from a top university, a career at a highly selective organization, or a venture you launched and grew. Now consider applying that intensity in a room of K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials in their corner, elevating them to benchmarks they never imagined reaching. If maintaining elite expectations for students feels unreasonable to you, this isn't your role.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction so students master foundational academics in roughly two hours daily. This structure opens the rest of the day for life skills, passion-led projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments define the standard: someone capable of reading dynamics, establishing culture, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not to teach. AI manages instructional delivery. Your role is to inspire, coach, and uphold 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 sessions that identify obstacles and establish stretch goals. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not engagement. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning kickoffs that frame each day with a culture where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here is depth, not advancement. 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 reward is not a title. It's the privilege of staying with the same students year after year, watching them mature with you as their anchor. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a stepping stone. If your motivation to leave your current role is the mission, not the credential, apply now.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating 1-on-1 and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish stretch goals, and ensure accountability for execution
- Leading structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your own elite background, and measuring mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the cultural standard each morning through focused kickoffs that embed high-performance expectations campus-wide
- Monitoring student progress continuously and refining coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families through consistent high standards and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, building 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 one-to-many instruction)
- Supervising other staff or pursuing an administrative career path (this role centers on direct student impact, not organizational leadership)
- Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-focused)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your responsibility is understanding 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 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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