Student Success Strategist $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
Description
You understand that the most compassionate act for a student is refusing to compromise standards. Your résumé reflects achievement at a level few experience firsthand: elite competitive sport, graduation with distinction from a top university, acceptance into a highly selective organization, or a company you launched and grew. Now imagine channeling that rigor into a setting where K-12 students gain access to someone with your pedigree—someone willing to push them toward standards they never imagined reaching. If the idea of maintaining elite expectations feels unkind, this isn't for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remainder of their time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record establishes what excellence looks like: someone capable of sensing group dynamics, shaping culture, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and doubt.
Your role isn't instructional. AI delivers the academic content. Your responsibility is to motivate, coach, and apply the same exacting standards you've lived by. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching to identify obstacles and establish ambitious targets. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not amusement. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning kickoffs that cultivate a culture where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's framework and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they allow to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's continuity with the same students, year after year, as you remain in their corner. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults in May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a stepping stone. If your motivation to leave your current role is the mission itself, not résumé enhancement, apply now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions by leveraging Coachbot analytics and student data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and enforce accountability
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on credible narratives from your own elite background, then evaluating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the campus cultural standard each morning through focused kickoffs that communicate high-performance expectations
- Monitoring student progress continuously and refining coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
- Developing trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining high standards, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or grading work — Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
- Standing in front of a 30-student classroom (your work centers on high-touch coaching in intimate settings, not large-group instruction)
- Supervising staff or pursuing administrative advancement (this role prioritizes direct student impact over organizational hierarchy)
- Attending faculty meetings or managing institutional bureaucracy (your time remains dedicated to students)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to uncover what prevented 100%)
Key responsibilities
Drive outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized field (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
- At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you measurably elevated others' performance
- Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Orange County, CA; Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Kirkland (Seattle), WA (relocation support provided)
- Legal right to work in the United States
Nice to have
- Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability settings such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Demonstrated youth development through mentoring in non-academic contexts (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Comfort presenting to and earning trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition
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