Business 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 

Austin, TX
In-person
8am-5pm, Monday to Friday
full-time (40 hrs/week)
Long-term role

Business Coach   $150,000 USD/year

Description

  • Based on-site in Austin, TX (relocation assistance available)
  • $150,000 annual salary, disbursed weekly. Full health coverage from day one.

The best way to support a teenager launching a company is to refuse to accept mediocrity. You understand that holding high expectations isn't creating stress—it's showing you believe the student is capable of reaching them. If that resonates with you, continue reading.

Your students are high school founders building legitimate businesses with $1M upside. These aren't classroom exercises or hypothetical scenarios. You'll dedicate 60-65% of your time to individual coaching sessions: pinpointing where each founder is blocked, isolating the most impactful next step, and enforcing a concrete action plan. The remaining 35-40% is divided between academic monitoring and running workshops that equip students with practical capabilities, not merely lecture content.

This isn't a conventional teaching position. You are accountable for student results: venture traction, academic performance, and personal development simultaneously. You'll rely on dashboards, progress reports, and academic metrics to coach deliberately, not by feel. When a student's grades drop? You step in before it escalates. When a venture plateaus? You surface the actual issue, not the one that's easier to address.

You begin by understanding each student's business, identifying their capabilities, and recognizing where they get stuck. Within months, you become the person whose challenge they respect, because you've operated in the real world yourself. The payoff is seeing a 16-year-old arrive with an idea and leave with a working enterprise, the systems to sustain it, and academic results that preserve every future opportunity.

If you've been seeking a role where your operational background directly influences the next cohort of entrepreneurs, apply today. If you require a scripted syllabus, a stable classroom setting, or a position where effort alone is valued, this isn't it.

What you will be doing

  • Delivering 1:1 coaching to student founders on strategy, implementation, and scaling choices — approximately two-thirds of your time
  • Leveraging student dashboards, venture updates, and academic records to assess trajectory and set clear next steps
  • Tracking academic standing and stepping in proactively when attention or organizational habits falter
  • Designing and running workshops that deliver tangible, applicable learning outcomes
  • Facilitating stand-ups, retrospectives, and group sessions that reinforce student accountability to their commitments

What you will NOT be doing

  • Teaching from a fixed lesson plan or delivering traditional lectures (you guide experiential learning, not classroom-style teaching)
  • Offering general mentorship or motivational speeches without concrete action commitments
  • Handling student operations — calendar management, forms, or admissions tasks
  • Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional processes (your focus remains on direct student impact)

Key responsibilities

Propel student founders toward ventures with $1M potential while ensuring they maintain strong academic standing.

Candidate requirements

  • Able to work on-site at Alpha High School in Austin, TX (relocation assistance available)
  • Minimum 2 years of experience coaching or developing others (team members, colleagues, or clients) with a concrete example of a coaching engagement and its results
  • Professional track record of owning critical outcomes or performance metrics, including at least one example showing $500,000+ in annual revenue impact
  • At least 1 year working directly with young people (students, junior professionals, or youth program participants) on projects, educational objectives, or entrepreneurial initiatives
  • Authorized to work legally in the United States

Nice to have

  • Launched, co-founded, or run a startup or early-stage venture personally
  • Served as a Chief of Staff, program manager, or top-tier individual contributor with full ownership of end-to-end outcomes
  • Proficiency with AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) to enhance coaching preparation, data interpretation, or correspondence
  • Experience in K-12 education, EdTech, or initiatives that integrate academics with practical application (such as accelerators, project-driven curricula, or entrepreneurship programs)

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