Executive Career Coach - San Francisco Bay Area

Career Launch; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 156,000; Full time

Job summary

Career Launch in the San Francisco Bay Area seeks an Executive Career Coach to guide leaders through positioning, executive search, and senior interviews. This contractor role focuses on shaping careers and aligning client goals with market opportunities.

You'll assess client experience, craft practical search plans, and provide resume, profile, networking, and interview prep guidance while managing expectations and compliant with professional standards.

Qualifications

• Experience coaching professionals in the named specialty with clear coaching approach and client outcomes.
• Clear communication, independent organization, and reliable follow-through.
• Familiar with startup and professional-services ecosystem in the target city.

Responsibilities

• Apply experience in leadership positioning, executive search, and senior interviews to the agreed work.
• Understand each client's experience, target roles, constraints, and career goals.
• Develop a practical search plan and help clients describe their relevant achievements.
• Provide resume, professional-profile, networking, and interview preparation guidance.
• Help clients use approved job-search tools while retaining responsibility for accurate applications.
• Document agreed actions and progress, adapting coaching to the individual's needs.
• Communicate realistic expectations without guaranteeing interviews, offers, or placement.

Skills

Executive coaching

Clear communication

Independent organization

Reliable follow-through

Explain prior work

Startup ecosystem

Professional services

Job description

Executive Career Coach - San Francisco Bay Area

Career Launch is accepting applications for a paid Executive Career Coach opening focused on leadership positioning, executive search, and senior interviews in San Francisco Bay Area.

The work

As a Executive Career Coach, your specialty is leadership positioning, executive search, and senior interviews. Scope, assigned accounts or searches, workload, and engagement terms must be agreed before work starts.

Responsibilities

• Apply your experience in leadership positioning, executive search, and senior interviews to the agreed work.
• Understand each client's experience, target roles, constraints, and career goals.
• Develop a practical search plan and help clients describe their relevant achievements.
• Provide resume, professional-profile, networking, and interview preparation guidance.
• Help clients use approved job-search tools while retaining responsibility for accurate applications.
• Document agreed actions and progress, adapting coaching to the individual's needs.
• Communicate realistic expectations without guaranteeing interviews, offers, or placement.

Qualifications

• Experience coaching professionals in the named specialty, with a clear coaching approach and relevant client outcomes.
• Clear communication, independent organization, and reliable follow-through.
• Ability to explain relevant prior work without sharing confidential client or employer material.
• Familiarity with the startup and professional-services ecosystem in the target city.

Engagement and compensation

Fixed pay: $100,000 to $156,000 per year. Engagement: contractor.

Professional standards

Respect existing employment obligations and disclose conflicts. Do not bring proprietary customer or candidate lists. Use approved tools and handle personal data only for the agreed purpose.

Applicants are evaluated on relevant experience and skills without regard to protected characteristics.