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Career Coach $100,000 USD/year
Description
- $100,000 annual W2 salary, paid each week; health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
- On-campus position at an Alpha K–8 school in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City metro)—relocation assistance available
You do not teach. You drive motivation.
The most powerful thing you can do for a student who completes 99% of their goal is to insist it isn't finished. If that expectation unsettles you, this isn't the role. If it energizes you because maintaining the standard is your way of showing students you believe in their ability to reach it, read on.
At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Half your time is spent facilitating hour-long life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive authentic feedback. The other half is dedicated to one-on-one or small-group sessions where you analyze student progress via Coachbot analytics and ensure each learner reaches 100% of their weekly app targets. You will not follow a script—workshops provide a foundation, but top performers customize them and create new ones when needs arise.
A successful quarter means every student in your group completes weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report they love you. Falling short on any of these three is falling short of the role. In your first year, you'll internalize the playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to uphold expectations, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor newer team members while continuing direct work with students.
If you prefer traditional teaching, want ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as opposing forces, this role isn't for you. If you've worked as an athletic coach, camp counselor, tutor who wouldn't let a kid give up, or performer who could captivate a room of eight-year-olds, the final stage before receiving an offer is a full on-campus day coaching actual Alpha students. If that excites you most, submit your application now.
What you will be doing
- Facilitating hour-long life-skills workshops for K–8 groups on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills; customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needs
- Teaching at a whiteboard; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
- Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook through energy and narrative
- Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
- Reducing a weekly target to help a student reach it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
- Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
Key responsibilities
Guarantee that every student in your K–8 group achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.
Candidate requirements
- Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT—relocation support offered
- Bachelor's degree in any field
- Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K–8 students (examples: classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, youth program leadership)
- A concrete example you can share of motivating a K–8 student toward a challenging goal: the goal itself, your actions, and the result
- Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
- Daily use of generative AI platforms (such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
- Authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)
Nice to have
- Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp direction, theater, or after-school programming where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward defined outcomes
- History of personal high performance (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to demanding standards reflects your consistent approach, not an adopted stance
- Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
- Proven ability to convert disengaged or resistant learners into active contributors
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