Student Excellence Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

You know the most supportive thing you can do for a student is hold them to a standard that doesn't bend. Your background includes performance at a level few experience firsthand: national or international athletics, graduation with honors from a highly selective university, employment at an elite firm, or launching a venture from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that rigor into working with K-12 students who have never encountered someone like you—someone prepared to demand excellence they didn't believe they could deliver. If that approach feels too demanding, this isn't your role. Alpha relies on AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to help students complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remainder of their time is dedicated to developing life competencies, pursuing meaningful interests, and genuine personal development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose accomplishments speak for themselves: someone capable of assessing dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through hesitation, distraction, and doubt. Your role is not instructional. AI delivers the academic content. Your responsibility is to inspire, coach, and enforce the same exacting standard you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time goes to direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies obstacles and establishes stretch goals. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills sessions designed for mastery rather than engagement alone. The final twenty percent is spent opening each day with purposeful kickoffs that cultivate a culture where excellence is non-negotiable. The trajectory here is depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they allow to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The return isn't upward mobility. It's continuity with the same students, year over year, maturing with your support. It's seeing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to a room of adults by May. What You Will Be Doing Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish ambitious targets, and ensure students follow through Facilitating structured life-skills sessions designed for mastery, drawing on credible examples from your own high-level experience, and verifying mastery using Alpha's Test2Pass framework Establishing the campus cultural standard each morning with focused kickoffs that communicate and 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 consistency, high expectations, and documented accountability plans What You Won’t Be Doing Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-driven academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation Presenting to large classroom groups of 30 students (your work centers on high-impact coaching in smaller settings, not large-group instruction) Supervising other staff or pursuing administrative advancement (this role prioritizes direct student outcomes, not organizational management) Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional red tape (your schedule remains student-centered) Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is identifying what prevented 100%) Student Excellence Coach Key Responsibilities Drive outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill proficiency at Alpha's most demanding campuses. Basic Requirements Bachelor's degree At least one documented instance of exceptional performance in a highly competitive, globally recognized field (examples: medals in national or international competition, graduation with distinction from a top-tier university, employment at a highly selective firm or fellowship, training at an elite performing arts institution, or founding and growing a successful venture) At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably improved 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 assistance available) Legal authorization to work in the United States Nice-to-have Requirements Experience in elite competitive athletics (D1 varsity, national team, or professional level) combined with coaching or mentoring younger athletes Background in high-accountability fields such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership Demonstrated youth development through mentoring outside traditional academic contexts (community organizations, after-school initiatives, sports camps) Confidence presenting to and earning trust with high-expectation families investing in premium private education About Alpha Join the team building school around student growth Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills. Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it. Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career. There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Working with us This is a full-time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits ( All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $150,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult for more details on this topic. Crossover Job Code: LJ-5740-US-PaloAlto-StudentExcelle.004 #J-18808-Ljbffr Crossover