LeaderUP Senior Career & Transformation Coach (United States)

LeaderUP Senior Career & Transformation Coach

Help accomplished professionals change the trajectory of their careers & lives—and expand the difference they can make.

Company: LeaderUP

Location: Remote — United States

Hours: Approximately 15–25 hours per week, with room to grow and future full-time potential

Compensation: $40–$85 per hour, based on demonstrated experience and capability

Role type: Part-time contract engagement

IMPORTANT: 

• Easy apply only will not be considered.
• A 4–6 minute video application is required. 
• Applications submitted without the requested video will not be considered.
• Send resume + LinkedIn profile + video submission to View email address on apply.placed-app.com

Help change what is possible for people

A career can shape nearly every part of a person’s life: how they see themselves, provide for their family, use their talents, and influence the people and organizations around them.

Yet many highly capable professionals reach a point where their experience is no longer translating into opportunity. They feel overlooked, stuck, or discouraged after spending years building the skills that should have positioned them for more.

LeaderUP exists to change that experience. Our high-touch career transformation program helps experienced professionals recognize and communicate their value, reach opportunities they could not access on their own, and move into leadership roles where they can do their best work.

When the right person steps into the right leadership role, the impact reaches far beyond one job offer—to their family, the people they lead, the culture they create, and the communities their work touches.

We are hiring LeaderUP’s next coach: someone who cares deeply, thinks strategically, holds a meaningful standard, and wants their work to matter.

Our Mission & Values At LeaderUP: We transform careers and change lives.

We help ambitious professionals break through to their next level of success, confidently navigate career transitions, and become stronger leaders. Working with professionals across the US, UK, India and Canada, we deliver real results that impact careers, families, and futures.

We measure success in transformations: better roles, increased compensation, more confidence, stronger leadership, and lives changed. We've helped hundreds of professionals achieve what they once thought impossible.

What drives us:

• Every Day is Day 1 - We bring fresh energy and innovative thinking to every challenge
• MASE (Mindset, Attitude, Skills, Effort) - These pillars guide how we drive transformation
• Client Transformation - We're obsessed with delivering real, measurable results
• Guiding Light - Illuminate the challenging path forward, helping navigate through uncertainty
• Impact with Fun & Joy - We create breakthroughs and have fun while doing it

Why this role matters

You will become the primary coach for an assigned group of managers, directors, VPs, and selected senior executives navigating consequential career decisions.

You will help people see what they cannot yet see, understand what is holding them back, rebuild momentum when a difficult search has worn it down, and turn insight into action.

You will also help shape LeaderUP’s coaching experience. Your judgment, ideas, observations, and results will influence our tools, playbooks, standards, and future coaching team.

What you will do

•  Lead high-quality one-to-one career coaching sessions with experienced professionals.

•  Diagnose whether the primary constraint is positioning, access, networking, interview conversion, execution, confidence, or another barrier.

•  Turn each session into a focused plan with clear priorities, commitments, and measures of progress.

•  Coach clients through networking, outreach, leadership stories, interviews, offer decisions, and the emotional realities of a career transition.

•  Review client progress, provide thoughtful follow-up, and identify stalled, disengaged, at-risk, or complex cases early.

•  Participate in case review, training, and coaching-quality feedback.

•  Contribute insights that strengthen LeaderUP’s tools, playbooks, systems, and client experience.

What meaningful success looks like

•  Clients leave sessions feeling seen, clearer about what matters, appropriately challenged, and committed to specific actions.

•  Coaching addresses the client’s real constraint and creates measurable progress in conversations, interviews, and execution.

•  Clients become more capable and self-directed rather than dependent on their coach.

•  Preparation, follow-up, communication, and escalations are thoughtful and reliable—and feedback is applied quickly.

Who will thrive here

You may come from career coaching, executive recruiting, talent leadership, outplacement, leadership development, or a combination of those fields. Your title matters less than your ability to connect deeply, diagnose accurately, and help accomplished people create meaningful change.

• You care deeply and combine empathy with standards. Clients feel supported, but you do not let them hide behind avoidance or vague commitments.

• You understand leadership-level careers. You can credibly coach managers, directors, VPs, and selected executives.

• You see beneath the surface and turn complexity into clarity. You identify the real constraint and focus clients on the actions that matter.

• You value methodology and judgment. You apply LeaderUP’s approach while recognizing when a case needs deeper thought or escalation.

• You want to build something that lasts. You welcome feedback and want to improve the client experience and future coaching team.

• You keep your commitments. Preparation, documentation, responsiveness, and follow-through are part of how you care for clients and teammates.

Experience that is especially valuable

•  Five or more years across career coaching, executive recruiting, talent leadership, outplacement, leadership development, or related work.

•  Demonstrated success coaching experienced professionals through career transitions, leadership advancement, or executive job searches.

•  Experience coaching professionals earning $150,000–$300,000+ or pursuing director, VP, and executive roles.

•  Strong understanding of the U.S. hiring market, networking-led job search, leadership-level positioning, and interviews.

•  Executive recruiting, hiring-manager, ICF, or comparable coaching experience is valuable, but demonstrated effectiveness matters most.

•  Availability for recurring U.S. business-hour client sessions and regular team/case-review time.

What you will become part of

• A mission with real human impact. Help capable people move through a difficult chapter and toward work that changes what is possible for them and others.

• A thoughtful, high-touch team. You will receive a proven methodology, training, tools, case review, feedback, and support while contributing your own insight.

• Paid work beyond sessions. Required preparation, notes, follow-up, case review, training, and approved client work are compensated.

• A clear path to grow. Strong performers can progress into complex client work, coach mentoring, Lead Career Coach responsibilities, higher compensation, and potentially a full-time leadership role.

How to apply

Send the following to View email address on apply.placed-app.com

•  Your resume and LinkedIn profile link.

•  A brief note describing the client levels you have coached and your approximate amount of direct career-coaching experience.

•  Your weekly availability, preferred client-session windows, and desired hourly rate.

•  A 4–6 minute Loom or unlisted YouTube video completing the task below.

Required video task

Please record one simple, concise video addressing all four prompts.

We want to understand how you think and communicate.

1. Briefly introduce your coaching background and the types and levels of clients you have helped.
2. A director has applied to 100 roles, received only two interviews, and believes the resume is the entire problem. Explain how you would diagnose the situation and what you would do first.
3. Explain how you would coach a capable client who repeatedly agrees to actions but does not complete them.
4. Tell us why this role and LeaderUP’s mission are a strong fit for you.

Selected candidates will be invited to a live interview and paid coaching simulation.

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