Head Jiu-Jitsu Instructor

# Head Jiu-Jitsu Instructor

Location:

San Jose, CA (in-person)
Type:
Full-time, salaried

Compensation

Competitive salary based on experience. Performance bonuses and academy benefits included. READY TO GOApply for Head Jiu-Jitsu Instructor Brief, real, in your own voice. We respond within 5 business days.

Apply Now→We are hiring a head jiu-jitsu instructor to lead our BJJ program.

This is the person our students will learn from, look up to, and stay withfor years. The role belongs to someone who can teach a beginner their firstarmbar with the same care they bring to coaching a competitor through blackbelt prep — and who understands that the second one only happens because the first one was done well.## Why this role matters

Our jiu-jitsu program is the heart of the academy. Members do not stay forthe marketing or the facility — they stay for the people who teach them andthe community that forms on the mats. The head instructor sets the tone forboth.

This is not a role where you show up, run drills, and leave. You are shaping a program. You are mentoring assistant instructors. You are building a competition team. You are the reason a kid sticks with BJJ forten years instead of quitting after six months.

We invest in our instructors. The right person here builds something theyare proud of and stays for the long term. Several of our most senior instructors started here years ago and have grown with the academy.## What you will do
* Teach the bulk of our adult and kids BJJ classes across the weekly schedule
* Develop and refine our curriculum from white belt through advanced
* Lead our competition team — coaching at tournaments, structuring training  camps, mentoring competitors at every level
* Mentor our assistant instructors and help them grow into lead roles
* Run promotion ceremonies, stripe tests, and rank evaluations
* Be a visible, present part of the academy community## What we expect from you
** Black belt under a recognized lineage.
** Verifiable rank from areputable instructor or academy. Competition experience strongly preferred but not required if your teaching record is strong.
** Real teaching experience.
** You have run classes, not just attended them. You know the difference between teaching a technique and teaching someone how to learn techniques.
** Patience with beginners.
** The hardest students to teach are the oneson day one. The instructor who can make a nervous beginner feel capableis worth more than one who can only coach competitors.
** Reliability and presence.
** Students plan their week around your classes. Showing up on time, every time, prepared, is non-negotiable.
** Commitment to the long term.
** This is a role for someone who wants tobuild something, not someone passing through on the way to opening theirown school.## What you can expect from us
** A real salary.
** This is a full-time role with competitive compensation based on your experience and lineage. We pay instructors what the role isworth, not what we can get away with.
** A serious training environment.
** Our facility, our schedule, and our culture are built for people who take the art seriously. You will be teaching motivated students, not coaxing reluctant ones.
** Support, not interference.
** You run the program. We handle the business side — marketing, sales, retention, operations — so you canfocus on the mats.
** Resources to grow the program.
** Equipment, seminar budget, competition travel support for the team, and the autonomy to shape the curriculum asyou see fit.
** A community worth being part of.
** Our members are the kind of peopleyou would actually want to train with.## Who We're Looking For### Required* —Black belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu under a verifiable lineage* —Demonstrated experience teaching classes regularly,…