Lead Guide II $200,000 USD/year Pay is set based on global value, not the local market.
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Description
- On-site in NYC or Miami (relocation support provided)
- $200,000/year, paid weekly
You don't want a comfortable education job. You want a scoreboard, a high bar, and the authority to enforce it. If you think "nice" matters more than results, stop reading.
GT.School's gifted K–6 students (expanding to K–12) use adaptive learning apps to move 5–10x faster than a traditional classroom, then spend afternoons building emotional intelligence and life skills with Guides who coach, not lecture. Three things have to land for every student: they love school, they accelerate at 5–10x pace, and they walk away with skills no textbook teaches. You'll help launch a new campus by coaching both students and the Guides who deliver those outcomes. This is a player-coach seat: you own results for your own cohort while coaching 2–4 Guides and holding them to a standard most schools won't touch.
Your mornings start with data. Coachbot analytics show which students are on track and which need a push. By mid-morning you're running a life skills workshop: public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback, using the playbook but bringing the energy that makes kids lean in. After lunch you're observing a Guide's session, then pulling them aside with three specific actions to sharpen their delivery. Some days you're leading a motivation huddle, turning leaderboard competitions and school currency into fuel. You stay hands-on with your own cohort while developing Guides who can match your standard, and as they do, your impact multiplies from one cohort to an entire campus.
You'll watch shy kids present confidently to adults. You'll see a student who "hated school" ask to stay late. And you'll know the standard you held is what got them there. If you've built high-performance teams and you're ready to do it for gifted kids: apply now.
What you will be doing
- Coaching 2–4 Guides through live and recorded session observations, 1:1 feedback, and tracked improvement goals — with underperformance addressed in days, not semesters
- Running playbook-driven life skills workshops (public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback) that are high-energy, structured, and measured for mastery via Test2Pass
- Reviewing Coachbot analytics and student progress data daily to identify who needs intervention, then intervening personally
- Leading motivation sessions that drive 100% of students toward weekly learning goals using age-appropriate incentives like school currency and leaderboards
- Mentoring your own student cohort directly, modeling the coaching standard you expect from every Guide
What you will NOT be doing
- Writing lesson plans or designing curriculum — students learn through adaptive apps; your job is to make the humans around them extraordinary
- Lecturing in front of a classroom — you're 80% performer, 20% subject-matter; if you want a whiteboard, this isn't it
- Making exceptions when a student is "close enough" — 100% mastery is the bar, and lowering it isn't kindness
- Managing campus-wide operations, budgets, or parent relationships — that's the Campus Lead's job
Key responsibilities
Consistently deliver accelerated academic progress and life-skills mastery across all student cohorts by coaching Guides and personally owning student outcomes at a new gt.school campus.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- At least one objective indicator of high academic achievement (e.g., National Merit recognition, PhD, academic competition awards, college-level coursework before high school, or graduating with honors such as cum laude or higher)
- 5+ years of experience in education, coaching, leadership, or a related field
- Experience leading a team of 5+ people, including responsibility for hiring and firing based on performance
- 3+ years working with gifted and talented (GT) students in a structured setting
- Daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot)
- Willing to work fully in-person in NYC or Miami (relocation support provided)
- Legal right to work in the U.S. without sponsorship
Nice to have
- Experience in a gifted enrichment program, academic competition coaching (Math Olympiad, Science Bowl, debate), or accelerated learning environment
- Experience coaching adults in a role where their performance was tracked and scored
- Comfort performing in front of large groups of children — the kind of energy that makes a room of 8-year-olds sit up straight
- Familiarity with adaptive learning platforms or educational technology tools used in gifted education
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