Guide II $120,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Guide II $120,000 USD/year
Description
- $120,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly; day-one health, dental, vision benefits
- On-site at an Alpha K-8 campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Santa Monica, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation support provided)
You are not a teacher. You motivate.
The most supportive thing you can do for a kid who hit 99% of their goal is refuse to call it done. If that standard makes you uncomfortable, stop reading. If it makes you light up because holding the bar is how you show a student you believe they can clear it, keep going.
At Alpha, students learn their academics through AI-powered apps. No lectures. No textbooks. About 60% of your week you run one-hour life-skills workshops on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving real feedback. Around 30% of your week you sit with students 1:1 or in small groups, review their progress through Coachbot analytics, and push each of them to their weekly app goals. The final 10% is data review that turns the numbers into next week's coaching plan. You will not deliver a script; workshops are a starting point, and the best in this role adapt them and design new ones when something is missing.
A semester succeeds when at least 90% of the students in your cohort hit their weekly app goals, show measurable life-skill gains on Test2Pass, and rate their experience with you 4/5 or better. Missing any of those three is missing the job. As you prove you can hold the bar, the path opens to Lead Guide — coaching newer Guides while still running a cohort — and from there to Campus Lead, running a school and owning parent relationships.
If you love traditional teaching, want a curriculum handed to you, or believe warmth and high standards are in tension, this is not the job. If you have been an athletic coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who refused to let a kid quit, or a performer who could hold a room of 12-year-olds, the final step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching real Alpha students. If that is the part that excites you most, apply today.
What you will be doing
- Leading one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback, and other durable skills, adapting the playbook and designing new sessions when you spot a gap
- Running daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that push every student to their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards), and your relationship with each kid to break resistance
- Administering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and coaching students who do not pass until they do
- Adapting your coaching style across a wide age range, from kindergarteners who need high energy and movement to 8th graders who need real talk and accountability
- Being the adult who holds the bar and the adult kids want to talk to; warmth earns you the right to push, and pushing shows you believe they can get there
What you will NOT be doing
- Lecturing at a whiteboard; academic instruction lives in the apps, not in you
- Writing curriculum from scratch; you bring a proven playbook to life with energy and storytelling
- Supervising kids at computers; motivation here is active, personal, and relentless
- Lowering a weekly goal to help a student hit it; if a kid is behind, the fix is the kid, not the target
- Grading homework, running standardized test prep, or managing parent communication; Campus Leads own parent-facing work, and none of the rest exists here
Key responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort hits their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and leaves the year saying they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Santa Monica, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR; or Seattle, WA (relocation support provided)
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- At least 3 years working directly with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A specific example you can describe of motivating a K-8 student to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome
- Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Legal right to work in the US without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Experience in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating kids toward specific goals
- Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture
- Storytelling and stage presence strong enough to hold a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voice
- Track record of turning disengaged or resistant students into active participants
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