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Description
- $100,000/year W2 salary paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits start on day one
- On-site role at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support available)
You are not here to teach. You are here to motivate.
The most caring thing you can do for a six-year-old who reached 99% of their goal is tell them it isn't finished. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you communicate belief in a kindergartener's potential, read on.
At Alpha, K-2 students complete their academics through AI-powered apps in two hours each day. No lectures. No worksheets. You will spend half your day facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops on topics like public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive feedback. These workshops provide a foundation, not a rigid script—the most effective people in this role tailor them to their group and create new ones when needed. The other half of your day is spent coaching students individually or in small groups, analyzing Coachbot data, and guiding each child to reach 100% of their weekly app targets. With five- and six-year-olds, energy and playfulness are not optional—they are the tools that sustain attention long enough for learning to happen. Warmth builds trust and earns you the authority to push. Pushing demonstrates your confidence in their ability to succeed.
A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for each life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means the role was not fulfilled. In your first year, you will internalize the operating model; as you demonstrate the ability to uphold expectations, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing to work directly with students.
If you are drawn to traditional teaching, prefer ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this is not the right fit. If you have been an early-elementary teacher who excelled during circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, a children's theater performer, or anyone capable of commanding a room of kindergarteners through voice, play, and presence, the final stage before an offer is a shadow day on campus where you coach actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for cohorts of 10-15 K-2 students, covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills
- Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions that help students stay on track for weekly app targets, using Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the individual relationship you have built with each child
- Administering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, and coaching students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
- Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, movement, and humor, while maintaining real, measurable expectations for first and second graders
- Being the warm adult children are excited to see at drop-off AND the adult who does not allow them to settle for less
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering instruction from the whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Developing curriculum from the ground up; Alpha supplies the framework and you execute it
- Passively supervising children on computers; motivation in this model is active, individualized, and sustained
- Adjusting a weekly goal downward so a child can meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is to support the student, not lower the target
- Grading homework, running standardized test prep, or managing parent communication; Campus Leads handle parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Ensure every student in your K-2 cohort reaches their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Phoenix, AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX; or Park City (Salt Lake City), UT (relocation support provided)
- Bachelor's degree in any subject
- At least 3 years of direct experience working with children ages 4 to 8 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can describe of motivating a young child toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your approach, and the result
- Able to attend a paid training program at our Austin, TX campus
- Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
- Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship
Nice to have
- Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating young children toward specific objectives
- Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to demanding standards is a consistent trait, not an adopted stance
- Natural performer's presence with young children—the capacity to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, humor, and movement
- Demonstrated success turning shy or reluctant young children into confident, engaged participants
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