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

Alpha School; Texas; On-site; USD 135,000 - 165,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Benefits

Job summary

Alpha School in Austin, TX seeks an Executive Coach to lead a K-3 cohort, coaching guides and students using performance data through live workshops and targeted feedback.

You will own playbooks, train Guides, and scale proven practices while staying hands-on with your cohort daily. Relocation support is provided; compensation is $150,000/year with weekly pay.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, Organizational Leadership, or related field.
• At least 5 years working with elementary-aged children.
• Experience leading a team of 5+ people and hiring/removing based on performance.
• Experience building, launching, or growing a program from the ground up.

Responsibilities

• Coach Guides and students using performance data and feedback, with measurable goals.
• Facilitate one-hour live workshops for K-3 students on life skills such as public speaking, focus, collaboration, resilience, accountability, and giving and receiving feedback.
• Run motivation sessions linking each child's goals to real academic progress.
• Build and refine playbooks that turn best practices into repeatable systems for others to execute.
• Train Guides on playbooks and model excellence in facilitation as the team grows.

Skills

Coaching

Team leadership

Public speaking

Data-driven coaching

Education

Bachelor's degree

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

Most elementary schools lower the bar when a child struggles. You raise it. You believe a six‑year‑old is capable of far more than a traditional classroom ever asks of them, and you have used data to prove it more than once.

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. If raising them feels like respect, apply.

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/systems, and leading a team — all skills an executive coach already recognizes. What they might misread: terms like "lecturing," "traditional teaching methods," and "K-3 curriculum" assume a classroom‑teacher frame of reference that an executive coach wouldn't naturally hold; the coaching‑of‑adults and system‑building parts of the role are the parts that will resonate most and should be foregrounded, while classroom‑specific framing can stay mostly intact since the role genuinely does involve a classroom cohort — that's a fact, not a framing choice.

• Willing to work in person at the Alpha campus in Austin, TX; relocation support 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

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in a related field
• Track record using metrics, dashboards, or analytics to diagnose problems and drive measurable improvement
• Experience coaching or managing other adults toward measurable outcomes, not just doing the work yourself
• Background in youth development, camp leadership, competitive coaching, tutoring, or enrichment where motivation was central
• Comfort and skill facilitating or public speaking in front of rooms full of young children

About Alpha

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real‑world skills.

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real‑world skills.

Roles with real student impact:

Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters:

Alpha offers six‑figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders:

Alpha is fast‑moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. We look forward to meeting you!

Working with us

This is a full‑time, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits (https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year‑long positions. The compensation level for this role is $150,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.