Learning and Development Manager, Alpha

Location & Salary

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

If telling a kid who earned 99% that they haven't passed makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it sounds like accountability, keep reading.

Alpha students complete their academic work in two hours daily through AI-powered, self-guided applications. There are no teachers, lectures, or subject-based classroom instruction. This structure allows you to focus on the work that drives real change: facilitating high-impact workshops on focus, public speaking, and feedback; using live analytics to motivate students toward full goal completion; and coaching the Guides who support your campus.

A typical morning begins with one-on-one Guide coaching—analyzing performance data and pinpointing where a cohort needs intervention. By midday, you're running a structured workshop with students, executing a playbook exercise on feedback dynamics. Afternoons are dedicated to motivation work: engaging individual students, uncovering their intrinsic drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a reluctant middle schooler. You also lead your own cohort, ensuring you remain practiced in the same methods you're training others to deliver.

You’ve likely felt out of place in traditional education settings: too focused on outcomes, too comfortable with data, too willing to question conventional approaches to student development. Alpha may be the environment where you finally belong. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable results, your impact on campus-wide program quality will expand.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Apply today.

• Facilitating one-hour workshops on life skills (focus, public speaking, giving and receiving feedback) for K-8 cohorts, executing Alpha's established playbook with precision rather than creating new content
• Conducting motivation sessions that leverage student performance data and Alpha's incentive architecture (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% goal completion
• Coaching Guides on program adherence and standards enforcement, ensuring each session yields specific, actionable improvements
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously developing other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide performance indicators on a weekly basis to identify underperformance early

• Teaching or tutoring academic content. Students progress through self-directed apps independently, without adult-led instruction.
• Creating original curriculum or developing new lesson plans. The playbook is established; your role is to execute it with fidelity, not innovation.
• Coaching Guides on pedagogical methods. Since Guides don't teach, you'll coach on energy, accountability, and motivational techniques instead.
• Accepting 99% as satisfactory when 100% is the standard. Maintaining this expectation demonstrates your belief in what students can achieve.
• Serving as the campus "empathy outlet." Students receive genuine connection alongside honest feedback and meaningful consequences.

Fulfill Alpha's three core commitments to every student in your cohort: they love attending school, they learn at twice the rate of traditional classrooms, and they develop authentic life skills.

• Available to work on-campus in Atlanta, GA;
  Oklahoma City, OK;
  Tulsa, OK;
  Austin, TX;
  Keller (Fort Worth), TX;
  The Woodlands (Houston), TX (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
• Demonstrated history of managing a team of 5 or more adults, including experience with hiring and performance-based termination decisions
• Hands‑on experience working with children aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental context
• Experience…