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 think the most compassionate act is to keep expectations uncompromising. Your background includes competition, achievement, or creation at a standard few ever reach: world-class athletics, a top university with honors, a highly competitive firm, or a company you launched yourself. Now imagine channeling that rigor into a K-12 setting where students have rarely encountered someone like you—someone who will push them toward benchmarks they never imagined hitting. If maintaining elite standards feels too demanding, this isn't for you.
Alpha relies on AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to help students complete core academics in roughly two hours each day. The rest of the day opens up for life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments define the benchmark: someone who can gauge the environment, shape expectations, and guide them through doubt, distraction, and hesitation.
Your role is not to teach. AI manages the academic content. Your role is to inspire, coach, and enforce the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies obstacles and establishes ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills sessions designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is devoted to daily morning launches that set a cultural tone where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over hierarchy. You begin by mastering Alpha's methods and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's the same cohort, year over year, maturing with you as their anchor. It's seeing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a platform for something else. If you're leaving your current role for the mission rather than the credential, submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions using Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish ambitious targets, and enforce accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery using authentic narratives drawn from your own elite background, then evaluating mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the campus cultural standard each morning through focused kickoff sessions that reinforce high-performance expectations
- Monitoring student progress continuously and refining coaching approaches based on 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; you manage motivation
- Presenting to a full classroom of 30 students (your work centers on high-touch coaching in intimate groups, not mass instruction)
- Supervising other staff or advancing through an administrative track (this role focuses on direct student impact, not organizational promotion)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional red tape (your schedule stays concentrated on students)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your role is to determine what prevented 100%)
Key responsibilities
Deliver outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding 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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