Executive Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

Alpha School; Georgetown (TX); On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Job summary

Alpha School is seeking an Executive Coach to lead a cohort of K-3 students and the Guides who coach them. You will directly coach adults, use performance data and coaching conversations to drive measurable progress, and develop repeatable playbooks that scale impact.

This role is anchored in hands-on coaching and daily engagement with students and Guides. You will facilitate live workshops, drive accountability, and craft processes that translate classroom progress into real-world life skills

Qualifications

• The role is pipeline-generic (Guide/Coach/Instructor family), but written for someone who coaches and manages adults and performance, not a classroom teacher by trade.
• The advertised title "Executive Coach" indicates coaching people (Guides) toward measurable goals and accountability.

Responsibilities

• Coaching Guides and students using performance data, classroom observation, and direct feedback, then holding both accountable to measurable goals
• Facilitating one-hour live workshops for K-3 students on life skills such as public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback
• Running individual and small-group motivation sessions that connect each child's goals and interests to real academic progress
• Building and refining playbooks that turn your best practices into repeatable systems other Guides can execute consistently
• Training Guides on those playbooks and modeling excellence in facilitation so standards hold as the team grows
• Deliver Alpha's three promises to every K-3 student: they love school, learn twice as fast, and build exceptional life skills and independence.

Job description

"We are never going to lower the standard for any kid — instead we're going to raise the support to help them get there."

— Braden, Head Guide, Alpha Austin

Alpha is hiring.

• In person at the Alpha campus in Austin, TX — relocation support provided
• $150,000/year
• Full-time

Alpha runs on a two-hour learning model. Adaptive apps teach academics in the morning, which clears your day for the work that actually changes a child's life: motivation, life skills, coaching, and accountability. You personally own a cohort of K-3 students while coaching the Guides (Alpha's term for the adults who coach and inspire the kids) responsible for their daily progress. You stay hands‑on every day, not managing from an office down the hall.

A normal day moves between three things. You read performance data and Coachbot analytics to find which students and Guides are off track. You run coaching conversations that send people away with a specific next step instead of vague encouragement — the same discipline you'd bring to coaching an executive, aimed here at both adults and the kids they're responsible for. And you hold the attention of a room full of five‑to‑nine‑year‑olds through a workshop on public speaking, focus, or giving and receiving feedback.

As you discover what works, you write it down. The playbooks you build become the standard every other Guide follows, so your impact grows from one cohort to the whole level. Proving you can scale that excellence is how you grow into bigger leadership here.

If lowering expectations feels like kindness to you, this is the wrong job.

What You Will Be Doing

• Coaching Guides and students using performance data, classroom observation, and direct feedback, then holding both accountable to measurable goals
• Facilitating one‑hour live workshops for K‑3 students on life skills such as public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback
• Running individual and small‑group motivation sessions that connect each child's goals and interests to real academic progress
• Building and refining playbooks that turn your best practices into repeatable systems other Guides can execute consistently
• Training Guides on those playbooks and modeling excellence in facilitation so standards hold as the team grows

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering academic instruction or lecturing from the front of the room; adaptive apps teach the content while you coach the humans
• Lowering expectations when a student struggles
• Supervising from a distance the way instructional coaches and principals do; you stay embedded with your own cohort daily
• Owning the entire campus's budget, operations, and parent relationships; a Campus Lead carries that so you can stay focused on student and Guide outcomes
• Defending traditional teaching methods or following a conventional K‑12 curriculum

Executive Coach Key Responsibilities

Deliver Alpha's three promises to every K‑3 student: they love school, learn twice as fast, and build exceptional life skills and independence.

Basic Requirements

The role is pipeline‑generic (Guide/Coach/Instructor family), but this JD is clearly written for someone who coaches and manages adults and performance, not a classroom teacher by trade. The advertised title "Executive Coach" reads this role as: coaching people (Guides) toward measurable goals, running accountability conversations, building playbooks/s