Performance Coach, Alpha - $150,000​/year USD

Job Location & Compensation

• On-site at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ — relocation assistance available
• $150,000/year
• Full-time

• On-site at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ — relocation assistance available
• $150,000/year
• Full-time

Most elementary schools reduce expectations when students fall behind. You do the opposite. You believe that a six-year-old has far greater potential than any traditional classroom demands, and you have proven this with data on multiple occasions.

Alpha operates on a two-hour learning framework. Adaptive software handles academic instruction each morning, freeing your schedule for the work that genuinely transforms a child: motivation, life skills, coaching, and accountability. You directly manage a cohort of K-3 students while coaching the Guides (Alpha's term for the adults who coach and inspire students) accountable for their day-to-day growth. You remain actively involved every day, not supervising remotely from an office.

Your typical day alternates among three core activities. You analyze performance metrics and Coachbot data to identify which students and Guides need intervention. You conduct coaching sessions that conclude with a concrete action item rather than general encouragement. And you facilitate workshops for groups of five- to nine-year-olds on topics like public speaking, focus, or giving and receiving feedback.

When you identify effective methods, you document them. The playbooks you create set the standard for every other Guide to follow, so your influence expands from one cohort to the entire level. Demonstrating that you can replicate that level of excellence is the path to larger leadership roles here.

If reducing expectations seems compassionate to you, this role is not a fit. If raising them feels like respect, apply.

• Coaching Guides and students through performance metrics, classroom observation, and clear feedback, then maintaining accountability to quantifiable objectives
• Leading one-hour live workshops for K-3 students focused on life skills including public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback
• Conducting individual and small-group motivation sessions that link each child's goals and interests to tangible academic progress
• Creating and improving playbooks that translate your most effective practices into repeatable frameworks other Guides can implement reliably
• Training Guides on these playbooks and demonstrating excellence in facilitation so standards remain consistent as the team expands

• Providing academic instruction or lecturing at the front of the room; adaptive apps deliver the content while you coach the people
• Reducing expectations when students encounter difficulties
• Managing from a distance the way instructional coaches and principals typically do; you remain embedded with your cohort every day
• Overseeing the entire campus's budget, operations, and parent engagement; a Campus Lead handles those responsibilities so you can concentrate on student and Guide results
• Advocating for traditional teaching approaches or adhering to a standard K-12 curriculum

Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every K-3 student: they love school, learn twice as fast, and develop exceptional life skills and independence.

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Austin, TX or Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; relocation assistance is provided
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, Child Development, or a related field
• At least 5 years working with elementary-aged children (roughly ages 5 to
  9)
• Experience leading a team of 5 or more people, including authority to hire and to remove people based on performance outcomes
• Experience building, launching, or significantly growing a program, team, school, or initiative from the ground up, not inheriting an existing one
• Comfortable working in a school that rejects traditional teaching methods
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

• Master's degree in a related…