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 true kindness means holding students to a standard they don't yet believe they can meet. Your own history includes competing, building, or excelling at a level most people only observe from a distance: elite athletic competition, graduating with distinction from a top-tier institution, working at a highly selective firm, or launching a venture from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that same drive into a space with K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials willing to push them toward benchmarks they never imagined reaching. If the idea of maintaining elite standards with students feels unreasonable to you, this isn't your role.
Alpha leverages AI-powered 1-on-1 learning that allows students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and substantive personal development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record establishes the expectation: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, shaping culture, and guiding students through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role is not instructional. AI delivers the academic content. Your responsibility is to motivate, coach, and enforce the same rigorous standard you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning kickoffs that set a daily tone where mediocrity is not tolerated.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the person students allow to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's continuity: the same students, year over year, maturing with you as their constant advocate. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a pathway to something else. If your motivation to leave your current role is the mission rather than resume building, submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops focused on mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your own elite background, and verifying mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass assessment system
- Establishing the cultural standard each morning via focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance expectations across campus
- Monitoring student progress continuously and adapting coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
- Cultivating 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; you manage motivation
- Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your focus is high-touch coaching in small groups, not large-scale instruction)
- Supervising other staff or pursuing an administrative career path (this role centers on direct student impact, not organizational advancement)
- Attending faculty meetings or managing school bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-focused)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is identifying what prevented 100%)
Key responsibilities
Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.
Candidate requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (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 roles where you measurably raised 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 environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition
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