Elite Student-Mentorship Coach

Alpha School; Santa Barbara (CA); On-site; USD 123,000 - 141,000; Full time

Job summary

Alpha School seeks a Peak Performance Coach to motivate and mentor K-12 students using AI-powered 1-on-1 and small-group coaching. You will diagnose blockers with data, set ambitious goals, and maintain high personal standards in a high-touch environment.

Your work emphasizes life-skills workshops, credible storytelling from elite experiences, and daily efforts to foster a culture where excellence is expected and mediocrity is not an option. This role is student-facing with meaningful impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain.
• At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance.
• Ability to design and deliver an engaging multiweek life-skills workshop with clear progression, compelling storytelling, and measurable mastery.
• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; or New York City, NY (relocation support provided).
• Legal right to work in the United States

Responsibilities

• Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.
• Deliver structured life-skills workshops built for mastery using credible storytelling from your own elite experience, then assessing mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass system.
• Setting the cultural tone each morning through focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance expectations across the campus
• Tracking student progress in real time and adjusting coaching strategies based on data, not instinct
• Building trusted mentor relationships with students and families through high standards, consistency, and documented motivation plans

Skills

Coaching experience

Goal setting

Public speaking

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Coachbot analytics

Job description

Alpha School seeks a Peak Performance Coach to motivate and mentor K-12 students using AI-powered 1-on-1 and small-group coaching. You will diagnose blockers with data, set ambitious goals, and maintain high personal standards in a high-touch environment.

Your work emphasizes life-skills workshops, credible storytelling from elite experiences, and daily efforts to foster a culture where excellence is expected and mediocrity is not an option. This role is student-facing with meaningful impact.