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 recognize that the most compassionate act for a student is maintaining rigorous standards without compromise. Your background includes competition, creation, or accomplishment at a tier that few ever experience firsthand: elite-level athletics, graduation with distinction from a top-ranked institution, acceptance into a highly competitive organization, or launching a venture from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that rigor into working with K-12 students who have never encountered someone with credentials like yours—someone willing to demand levels of excellence they never imagined possible. If the notion of holding students to elite expectations strikes you as unreasonable, this role is not for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to enable students to complete core academic work in approximately two hours daily. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, self-directed projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record exemplifies what's possible: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through friction, distractions, and internal doubt.
Instruction is not your responsibility. AI delivers the academic content. Your responsibility is to inspire, coach, and enforce the same exacting standards you've applied to your own pursuits. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish stretch goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for skill acquisition, not engagement metrics. The final twenty percent is spent leading focused morning sessions that cultivate a culture intolerant of mediocrity.
The trajectory here emphasizes mastery, not advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond self-imposed limits. The return isn't vertical mobility. It's continuity with the same students across years, serving as their anchor through formative growth. It's observing a student who avoided eye contact in the fall deliver a poised presentation to a room of adults by spring.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the objective, not a platform for career progression. If your motivation for leaving your current role is the mission itself, not résumé enhancement, submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and progress metrics to identify barriers, establish ambitious objectives, and enforce accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for competency development, drawing on authentic narratives from your own elite background, and verifying mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the performance culture each morning through deliberate kickoff sessions that reinforce campus-wide high-achievement norms
- Monitoring student advancement in real time and refining coaching approaches based on evidence, not intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentorship bonds with students and families through sustained high expectations, reliability, and formalized motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, building curricula, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic system manages instruction; your focus is student drive
- Presenting to a full classroom of 30 students (your work centers on intensive coaching in small settings, not large-group delivery)
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing administrative advancement (this role prioritizes direct student influence, not organizational rank)
- Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional politics (your hours remain concentrated on students)
- Compromising standards to satisfy performance indicators (if a student achieves 99%, your task is uncovering the barrier to 100%)
Key responsibilities
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill competency at Alpha's most rigorous 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 Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or 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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