High-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 understand that the most generous act is to maintain the highest possible standard for every student. You've performed, created, or excelled at a level that most only observe from a distance: competitive athletics at an elite tier, a prestigious university with honors, a rigorously selective organization, or a business you launched and grew independently. Now imagine channeling that drive into a classroom of K–12 learners who've never encountered someone with your caliber of experience—someone willing to challenge them to levels they never imagined they could attain. If expecting elite performance from students strikes you as unreasonable, this role isn't for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to enable students to complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remainder of the day is dedicated to life skills, self-directed projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record exemplifies excellence: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding students through obstacles, distractions, and insecurity.
Your role is not instructional. AI manages the academic delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, coach, and hold students accountable to the same rigorous standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions that identify barriers and define stretch goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for competency, not engagement for its own sake. The final twenty percent is devoted to launching each day with purposeful morning sessions that cultivate a culture intolerant of average effort.
The trajectory here emphasizes deepening impact, not advancing into management. You begin by mastering Alpha's framework and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the person they allow to challenge them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's continuity—working with the same students across years, becoming a constant presence in their development. It's seeing a student who struggled to speak up in the fall deliver a poised presentation to adults by spring.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the mission, not a platform for career progression. If you're motivated to leave your current role by purpose rather than résumé enhancement, apply now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting one-on-one and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student performance data to pinpoint obstacles, establish high-bar objectives, and ensure accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your own high-achievement background, and verifying mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass assessment framework
- Establishing the cultural standard each morning via focused kickoff sessions that reinforce excellence expectations campus-wide
- Monitoring student progress continuously and adapting coaching tactics based on evidence, not intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentoring relationships with students and their families through unwavering standards, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
What you will NOT be doing
- Delivering lessons, developing curriculum, or assessing assignments—Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; you manage drive and accountability
- Presenting to large classroom cohorts of 30 students (your focus is intensive coaching in small settings, not large-group instruction)
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing an administrative career path (this role centers on direct student influence, not organizational structure)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-focused)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to identify what prevented 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 documented instance of extraordinary achievement in a highly competitive, globally recognized field (examples: medals in national or international competition, 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 improved others' performance
- Willing to work on-site 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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