Elite Performance Coach $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 believe that refusing to lower the bar is the most compassionate act you can offer a student. Your own track record includes competing, building, or performing at a level few ever reach: elite-level athletics, top-tier academic honors, a highly competitive firm, or an enterprise you launched and grew. Imagine channeling that discipline into a room of K-12 students who've never encountered someone with your credentials—someone determined to hold them to standards they didn't believe they could meet. If the phrase "elite standards" feels too demanding, this isn't your role.
Alpha deploys AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction so students complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remainder of their time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model excellence: someone capable of sensing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding students through resistance, distraction, and internal doubt.
Your role is not instructional. AI delivers the academic content. Your role is to inspire, coach, and enforce the same relentless standard you've applied to your own life. Forty percent of your week involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching to identify obstacles and define stretch goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement alone. The final twenty percent centers on morning kickoffs that set a daily tone where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they allow to challenge them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's continuity: the same students, year over year, maturing with you as their constant. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to a roomful of adults by May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a career stepping stone. If mission—not résumé enhancement—drives your decision to leave your current role, apply now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance metrics to identify barriers, establish ambitious targets, and enforce accountability
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your elite background, then verifying mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the performance culture each morning through focused kickoffs that reinforce campus-wide high expectations
- Monitoring student progress continuously and adapting coaching tactics based on real-time data rather than intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families through consistent high standards and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments—Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
- Presenting to a 30-student classroom (your work is intensive coaching in small groups, not lecture-based teaching)
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing administrative promotion (this role centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational management)
- Attending traditional faculty meetings or navigating institutional red tape (your schedule prioritizes student contact)
- Compromising standards to satisfy metrics (if a student achieves 99%, your task is discovering 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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