Associate, Alpha - $100,000​/year USD

The most meaningful support you can give a student at 99% of their weekly goal is to insist they reach 100%. Not out of indifference, but because you know they can finish, and lowering the bar is the true disservice.

You are not a classroom teacher. At Alpha, students master academic content through AI-driven adaptive learning applications. No lectures. No textbooks. No whiteboard instruction. Motivation and life skills—the elements traditional schools push to the sidelines—are your entire focus here.

Consider a typical Tuesday. Half your day is spent facilitating one-hour workshops for K-8 cohorts on topics like public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive constructive feedback. The other half is dedicated to sitting with those same students individually or in small groups, reviewing their Coachbot analytics, and driving each one to 100% completion of their weekly app goals.

You'll use school currency, leaderboards, and the trust you've earned to break through resistance.

Your quarterly success is defined by three metrics: every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, every student passes the Test2

Pass mastery check for each workshop, and 90% or more report they love you. Fall short on one, and you've missed the mark.

The reward is the day a student who spent September convinced they were terrible at math asks you to increase their goal.

This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We recruit nationally, so job boards may list this opportunity in nearby cities where we do not yet have a campus.

Current openings for this salary tier are in Scottsdale, AZ;
Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
Nashville, TN;
Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX;
Springfield, MA; and Park City, UT.

If another Alpha campus interests you, share your preferred location—we’ll consider you for the right opening.

If you have coached youth sports, led a cabin at camp, or tutored a student who wanted to quit, the final step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students.

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, and giving and receiving feedback
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions to ensure every student reaches 100% of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive systems (school currency, leaderboards)
• Delivering the Test2
  
  Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then re-coaching any student who does not pass until mastery is achieved
• Modifying the workshop playbook and creating new sessions when gaps emerge, ensuring the material resonates with both kindergarteners and 8th graders
• Serving as both the adult who upholds the standard and the adult your students choose to confide in

• Teaching from a whiteboard, developing math and reading lesson plans, or grading homework; academic instruction is delivered through the apps
• Conducting standardized test prep or being accountable for a class-wide test score
• Managing parent conferences, emails, and complaints; campus leadership handles all parent-facing responsibilities
• Controlling behavior for 30 students at once; cohorts are small and behavior work is 1:1 coaching
• Monitoring kids at computers; motivation here is hands-on and relational

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

• Willing to work in person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ;
  Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK;
  Nashville, TN;
  Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX;
  Springfield, MA; or Park City, UT - 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 allowing adaptive learning software to handle academic instruction while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
• A personal track record of high achievement, academic, athletic, or…