Senior Coach

At Guild, we believe talent is everywhere and that opportunity should be too. We continue to have our home and headquarters in Denver, but we have embraced a distributed model of working to reach the best talent in the United States. While some roles may require proximity to our Denver office, roles based outside of our Denver office can sit in any of the following 32 states: AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI and Washington D.C. Please only apply if you are able to live and work full-time in one of the states listed above. State locations and specifics are subject to change as our hiring requirements shift. 

If you are an Internal Candidate, please apply via our Internal Job Board. 

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To thrive as a company and meet our impact goals, we must cultivate a culture of high-performance. We know managers are often the single-largest driver of employee satisfaction and growth, and our talent is our biggest asset. Because of that, we’ve identified consistent expectations for all of Guild’s people managers — helping you know what to expect from your experience here.

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Location: Remote (US) — must be available for 11am–8 pm Mountain Time shift; geographic distribution across the US preferred.

Commitment: 40 hours/week

Type: Full-time

About Guild:

Guild partners with the country's largest employers to offer education and coaching as a benefit to their employees. Our coaches are at the heart of that mission — they're the human connection that helps working adults navigate real change in their lives. We support learners who are balancing jobs, families, and school, often for the first time, and our coaches make the difference between someone giving up and someone crossing the finish line by deploying empathy, accountability, and career services.

We're growing our coaching team and looking for experienced coaches (career and leadership coaches) who are ready to bring their full practices to a mission-driven environment—and who want to do so at scale.

The Role:

As a Senior Guild Coach, you'll carry a caseload of learners enrolled through our employer partners, partnering with them to identify and accomplish goals that align with their academic and career aspirations. You'll bring your full coaching toolkit — advanced techniques, cultural competency, and a bias toward learner empowerment — while also contributing to the broader coaching team as a collaborator.

This is a role for coaches who are entrepreneurial by nature: people who've built or run their own practice, who don't need to be managed closely, and who are energized by figuring out what approaches to deploy to maximize the number of learners served annually. You'll be joining a team that's actively evolving — integrating AI-augmented coaching tools, refining how we measure impact, and pushing the boundaries of what it means to coach at scale without sacrificing quality.

What You'll Do:

Coach learners with depth and consistency

• Partner with learners to identify, refine, and accomplish goals aligned with their academic and career aspirations, using advanced coaching techniques and strategies
• Approach every conversation with a culturally aware lens, adapting your coaching practice to each learner's needs, values, preferences, and identity
• Manage your assigned caseload with strong organization and consistent outreach, ensuring no learner falls through the cracks
• Maintain accurate records of coaching sessions, learner progress, and outcomes to enable proactive, personalized support
• Continually develop and apply best practices that improve the experience — especially for our most under-resourced learners

Drive engagement and retention through smart use of data and tools

• Use tools and data to develop scalable strategies that generate high learner engagement and persistence
• Balance caseload management with broader leadership contributions across the department

Strengthen the coaching department through insights and expertise

• Collaborate with coaching leadership and cross-functional teams to identify trends and opportunities for process improvement
• Contribute to department-wide initiatives that enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of Guild Coaching
• Stay current on industry trends and best practices; bring outside perspective into how we coach

What We're Looking For:

Experience

• 3+ years of career coaching and/or leadership coaching experience or 500+ hours of coaching experience
• Demonstrable track record supporting diverse, non-traditional clients — with the ability to adjust style and tactics to meet unique needs and support learner persistence
• Proven history of positive learner/client outcomes, with high goal achievement and strong feedback
• Experience collaborating with department or cross-functional leadership on strategic initiatives
• Proven track record of mentoring or coaching peers to success

Mindset and working style

• Possesses an independent, entrepreneurial spirit, potentially from managing a personal coaching practice; excels with high levels of autonomy and minimal supervision.
• Strong work ethic with personal accountability for performance and continuous improvement as both a leader and a coach: able to learn new skills, self-monitor, and self-correct
• Strong communication skills: able to give clear, actionable feedback and share ideas concisely
• Comfortable influencing at all levels, with strong stakeholder management and experience partnering with peers and leaders
• Committed to building equitable and inclusive environments for both learners and colleagues

Logistics

• Available to work 40 hours/week on a consistent basis
• Available for Mountain Time shift (11am–8 pm MT) — this is a firm requirement to serve our working adult learners
• US-based; we are intentionally building a geographically distributed team and welcome applicants from all regions

Additional Considerations

• Coaching or Career Services certification (preferred, not required)
• Experience with coaching in a tech-enabled or high-volume environment
• Familiarity with adult learner populations, workforce education, or career mobility programs

Why Guild:

• Mission that's tangible: you'll see and feel your impact on real people navigating real change
• A coaching team that takes craft seriously — we invest in your development and your ideas matter
• A dynamic environment with evolving tools, including AI-augmented coaching support, so you can focus your energy where it counts most
• Competitive compensation and benefits
• Flexibility to work remotely from anywhere in the US

We are committed to equal pay for equal work and believe in compensation transparency. All salary ranges are standardized nationwide and will not vary by region. This role offers a competitive total compensation package, including an hourly rate (non-negotiable) of $34.10 per hour, annual bonus potential and company stock options. 

 

Posting Date:

Tuesday, April 28

*This role will stay open for a minimum of 3 days. 

 

Guild partners with the country’s most innovative employers, including Chipotle, Target, Walgreens, JPMorgan Chase, Hilton, Spectrum, PepsiCo, Tyson, and more, to build the talent needed for today and a resilient workforce for tomorrow. Guild helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent, enabling workers to gain skills for in-demand roles and companies to stay agile. 

By connecting employees to real-world learning, coaching, and career support, and providing companies with actionable talent insights, Guild transforms all talent into high-impact contributors and positions companies for long-term, sustainable growth. For more information, visit https://www.guild.com.

Guild is a female-founded, certified B Corp. The company has been recognized by Fortune’s Change the World list (2021, 2025), the Forbes Cloud 100 (2020–2025), Great Place to Work (2022–2025), CNBC’s Disruptor 50 (2021–2024), TIME’s 100 Most Influential Companies (2022), Inc.’s Best-Led Companies (2021), Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas (2020), and B Lab’s Best for the World (2019), among many others.

Guild is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let your recruiter know. We currently offer the following benefits:

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
• Access to a 401k to help save for the future
• Vacation policy to rest and recharge
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
• Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 2-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits.
• Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
  
  

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