Coach, Alpha

"We are never going to lower the standard for any kid — instead we're going to raise the support to help them get there."
— Braden, Head Guide, Alpha Austin
Alpha is hiring.
This is a Coach role, not a classroom teaching role. At Alpha, students learn academics through AI-powered adaptive learning apps. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard. Motivation and life skills, the two things schools normally squeeze into the margins, are the whole job here.
Picture a Tuesday. Half your day you run one-hour workshops for a K-8 cohort on public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive real feedback. The other half you sit with those same students one-on-one or in small groups, read their Coachbot analytics, and push each of them to 100% of their weekly app goals, using school currency, leaderboards, and the relationship you have built with them to break through resistance.
Your quarter comes down to three numbers: every student in your cohort hits their weekly app goals, every student passes the Test2

Pass mastery check for each workshop, and 90% or more say they love you. Missing one of the three is missing the job.
The payoff is the day a student who spent September insisting they were bad at math asks you to raise their goal.
This is a full-time, on-site role at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may display this opportunity in nearby cities that do not have a campus yet.
Current openings for this salary tier are available in Scottsdale, AZ;
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
Nashville, TN; and Austin, Dallas, and Plano, TX.

• Leading one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts on public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback
• Running daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions that push every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, using Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards)
• Administering the Test2
  
  Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coaching any student who does not pass until they do
• Adapting the workshop playbook, and building new sessions when you find a gap, so the same material lands with a kindergartener and with an 8th grader
• Being both the adult who holds the standard and the adult your students choose to talk to

• Lecturing at a whiteboard, writing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic instruction lives in the apps
• Running standardized test prep or answering for a class-wide test score
• Handling parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership owns all parent-facing work
• Crowd-controlling 30 students at once; cohorts are small and behavior work here is 1:1 coaching
• Supervising kids at computers; motivation here is active and personal

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort hits their weekly learning goals, masters each life skill, and leaves the year saying they loved school.

• Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ;
  Oklahoma City or Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN; or Austin, Dallas, or Plano, TX - relocation support provided
• Bachelor's degree in any subject
• At least 3 years working directly with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom teaching, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program work
• Comfortable letting adaptive learning software deliver the academic instruction while you own motivation and life-skills coaching
• A personal record of high achievement, academic, athletic, or professional, that made holding a hard standard a habit rather than a posture
• Stage presence strong enough to hold a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without raising your voice
• Legal right to work in the United States without visa sponsorship