Description
"We are never going to lower the standard for any kid — instead we're going to raise the support to help them get there."
— Braden, Head Guide, Alpha Austin
Alpha is hiring.
The most supportive thing you can do for a student who hits 99% of their weekly goal is refuse to call it done. Not because you are indifferent, but because you believe they can clear the bar, and lowering it is the real failure.
You are not a teacher. At Alpha, students learn academics through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard. Motivation and life skills, the two things schools normally squeeze into the margins, are the whole job here.
Picture a Tuesday. Half your day you run one-hour workshops for a K-8 cohort on public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive real feedback. The other half you sit with those same students one-on-one or in small groups, read their Coachbot analytics, and push each of them to 100% of their weekly app goals, using school currency, leaderboards, and the relationship you have built with them to break through resistance.
Your quarter comes down to three numbers: every student in your cohort hits their weekly app goals, every student passes the Test2Pass mastery check for each workshop, and 90% or more say they love you. Missing one of the three is missing the job.
The payoff is the day a student who spent September insisting they were bad at math asks you to raise their goal.
This is a full-time, on-site role at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus yet.
Current openings for this salary tier are available in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; and Austin, Dallas, Plano, and Fort Worth, TX.
If you're interested in another Alpha campus, apply anyway and tell us your preferred location—we'll consider you for the appropriate opening.
If you have coached youth sports, run a cabin at camp, or led an after-school program where kids were counting on you to show up with a plan, the last step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching real Alpha students. If that day is the part you want most, apply today.
What you will be doing
- Leading one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback
- Running daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that push every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards)
- Administering the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coaching any student who does not pass until they do
- Adapting the workshop playbook, and building new sessions when you find a gap, so the same material lands with a kindergartener and with an 8th grader
- Being both the adult who holds the standard and the adult your students choose to talk to
What you will NOT be doing
- Lecturing at a whiteboard, writing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic instruction lives in the apps
- Running standardized test prep or answering for a class-wide test score
- Handling parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership owns all parent-facing work
- Crowd-controlling 30 students at once; cohorts are small and behavior work here is 1:1 coaching
- Supervising kids at computers; motivation here is active and personal
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 school.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; or Austin, Dallas, Plano, or Fort Worth, TX - relocation support provided
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- At least 3 years working directly with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom teaching, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work
- Comfortable letting adaptive learning software deliver the academic instruction while you own motivation and life-skills coaching
- A personal record of high achievement, academic, athletic, or professional, that made holding a hard standard a habit rather than a posture
- Stage presence strong enough to hold a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voice
- Legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Youth athletics coaching, debate, drama, camp leadership, or after-school program work where you were personally accountable for kids hitting a specific goal
- Experience teaching social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curricula
- A student you can name who went from resistant or checked out to fully engaged, and the specific thing you did
- Daily use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini
You will be working for
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This job is part of the Education career ladder at Alpha , which consists of the 4 roles listed below. Where do you see yourself?
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|---|---|---|
| Education | ||
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