Youth Development Manager, Alpha

Locations and Compensation

• On-site at an Alpha campus:
  Atlanta, GA
• Oklahoma City, OK
• Tulsa, OK
• Austin, TX
• Keller (Fort Worth), TX
• The Woodlands (Houston), TX
• Park City (Salt Lake City), UT
• Toronto, Canada
• $150,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly. Day‑one health benefits.
• Relocation support available

Telling a kid who scored 99% that they didn't pass is the most supportive thing you can do. If that statement made you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If you nodded in agreement, continue reading.

At Alpha, students complete their academics in two hours daily through self‑directed AI‑powered applications. No teachers. No lectures. No classroom management of academic content. This structure allows you to focus on work that genuinely shifts their trajectory: facilitating high‑energy workshops on public speaking, focus, and feedback; using real‑time analytics to motivate students toward complete learning goal attainment; and coaching the Guides who support you.

A typical morning may begin with a one‑on‑one Guide coaching session, analyzing performance data and pinpointing where a cohort is underperforming. By midday you're facilitating a live student workshop, executing a playbook activity on feedback exchange. Afternoons transition to motivation work: engaging individual students, identifying their drivers, and leveraging Alpha's incentive model to re‑engage a struggling 7th grader. You maintain your own cohort directly, keeping your skills aligned with what you're coaching others to build.

You've likely been the outlier in education: overly data‑driven, excessively results‑oriented, too ready to question conventional approaches with kids. Alpha may be the first environment where you truly belong. You'll coach other Guides immediately, and as you produce results at scale, your impact on campus‑wide program quality expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.

• Facilitating one‑hour live workshops on life skills (public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback) for K‑8 cohorts, executing Alpha's playbook rather than improvising.
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student analytics and Alpha's incentive system (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal completion.
• Coaching Guides on program fidelity and standards enforcement, ensuring every session yields concrete improvement actions.
• Managing your own student cohort while developing other Guides.
• Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance metrics weekly to identify underperformance before it escalates.

• Lecturing or tutoring students on academic subjects. Students learn through self‑directed apps without adult supervision in the room.
• Creating curriculum or developing lesson plans from scratch. The playbook is established; the standard is delivery fidelity, not creativity.
• Coaching Guides on teaching methodology. Guides don't teach, so you're coaching energy, motivation, and accountability.
• Making exceptions when a student scores 99% rather than 100%. Maintaining the standard is how you demonstrate belief in their capacity to reach it.
• Being the "big ball of empathy" every school has. Kids receive connection here, and they also receive honest feedback and genuine consequences.

Deliver Alpha's three promises to every student in your cohort: they love school, learn twice as fast as a traditional classroom, and develop real‑life skills.

• Willing to work on‑campus in Atlanta, GA;
  Oklahoma City, OK;
  Tulsa, OK;
  Austin, TX;
  Keller (Fort Worth), TX;
  The Woodlands (Houston), TX;
  Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a comparable field.
• Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and making performance‑based termination decisions.
• Direct experience working with kids aged 5‑14 in an educational or developmental setting.
• Built, launched, or significantly grew…