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Alpaca Health
New York, New York

BCBA Practice Coach

BCBAFull-Time

Listed compensation

$80k-$160k

The week · per this posting · weekdays assumed

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Posted 1mo ago

Job Description

About Alpaca Health

Alpaca Health is a business-in-a-box for autism care providers to launch, run, and grow independent practices. We help clinicians get in-network with insurance, find their first caseload of clients, and eliminate admin overhead with an AI-powered EHR.

We believe the future of healthcare should be led by clinicians, not corporations, and are dedicated to helping clinicians become owners.

We're growing fast, 30% MoM, and we're just getting started. Our top priority is helping clinician-entrepreneurs and families connect and thrive.

  • Today, we operate in Texas and Colorado, but we’re excited to open up 4 more states in 2026.
  • We’ve raised $12M+ from leading VCs including Core Innovation Capital, Adverb Ventures and South Park Commons.
  • Role: BCBA Practice Coach
  • We are hiring a BCBA Practice Coach to help autism care practices succeed on the Alpaca platform.
  • This role goes far beyond traditional customer success.
  • It is about helping providers grow sustainable, high-quality, and revenue-generating practices.
  • You will work closely with clinicians and practice owners to strengthen operations, decrease time-to-intake, and deliver higher-quality outcomes to more families.
  • You will act as a trusted advisor, operator, and growth partner.
  • This is a high-ownership role with direct impact on provider outcomes and company performance.
  • What You’ll Do

Act as a Strategic Advisor to Providers

  • Build trusted relationships with clinicians and practice owners.
  • Diagnose practice challenges and develop actionable growth plans.
  • Track performance metrics and ensure providers are progressing toward goals.
  • Share best practices across the network to improve clinical and business outcomes.

Improve Product Adoption and Operational Excellence

  • Help providers use Alpaca’s tools effectively to run their practice.
  • Surface workflow issues and collaborate with Product and Operations to improve systems.
  • Translate real-world provider feedback into scalable playbooks and process improvements.
  • Own outcomes, not just activity
  • Measure success through provider growth, retention, and revenue performance.
  • Prioritize high-impact work rather than routine check-ins or reactive support.
  • Step into ambiguous situations and move them forward with urgency and structure.

Drive Practice Growth and Revenue Outcomes

  • Partner with clinicians to understand weekly billable hours and optimize utilization, scheduling, cancellations, etc.
  • Identify operational bottlenecks across intake, scheduling, authorizations, documentation, and billing.
  • Support providers in hiring, staffing planning, and scaling their services responsibly.

Who We’re Looking For

  • Work incredibly hard. As a startup, the hours stretch beyond the traditional 9-5, especially as an organization that supports practices across time zones (including Hawaii)
  • Think like owners and care deeply about real outcomes.
  • Are comfortable working in fast-moving, high-accountability environments.
  • Can turn messy operational realities into structured plans.
  • Communicate clearly and build trust quickly.
  • Are data-driven and comfortable working with performance metrics.
  • Are ambitious and excited to grow into leadership roles as the company scales.
  • NYC-based candidates preferred, but we are open to remote / hybrid candidates.

Why Join

  • Direct impact on families and clinicians from day one.
  • Real ownership over provider growth and network performance.
  • Exposure to company-building across product, operations, and go-to-market.
  • Fast learning curve and strong leadership growth opportunities.

Compensation

  • Competitive salary
  • Meaningful equity
  • Health benefits
  • Flexible PTO

Key Responsibilities

Act as a strategic advisor to autism care providers to help them grow sustainable, high-quality, and revenue-generating practices. You will diagnose operational challenges, track performance metrics, and collaborate with internal teams to improve product adoption and systems.

Requirements

The ideal candidate is a BCBA who thinks like an owner and is comfortable working in a fast-moving, high-accountability startup environment. You must be data-driven, capable of turning complex operational realities into structured plans, and able to build trust quickly with clinicians.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Strategic advisingPractice managementOperations managementData analysisClinical outcomesBusiness growthWorkflow optimizationRelationship buildingProject managementProblem solvingCommunicationEHR systems

Applied Behavior Analysis Career Context

In New York, the Applied Behavior Analysis weighted monthly median benchmark on WeekdayDoc is ~$99k (71 salary observations; 148 listings), vs ~$92k nationally (1,897 salary observations; 5,266 listings). Monthly aggregates cover 2026-02-01 through 2026-10-01; these are not the modal's selected comparable-job medians.

Of the 43 active Applied Behavior Analysis listings this role was benchmarked against, 70% are remote, 40% have no call, 88% require no weekends.

Applied Behavior Analysis pay on WeekdayDoc is up 5.7% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

The cost-of-living index for New York is 107.9 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)), so the posted ~$120k midpoint carries the purchasing power of roughly $111k in an average-cost state. 64.6% of New York clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

Top Behavior Analyst Jobs

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Salary Distribution40 jobs · 15 employers

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks37 jobs · 15 employers

401k / retirement match
95%
CME allowance
89%
Sign-on bonus
84%
Loan repayment
57%
Relocation assistance
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Work-life snapshot

median 4.8this job 2.8
Better work-life than 20% of Applied Behavior Analysis listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,633 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

Living in New York

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$876k≈ 10.9× annual pay
Typical market rent
$4,154/mo≈ 62% of gross pay
Residents’ average commute
40 min
State income tax
Up to 10.9%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

Ratios use this listing’s gross annual pay. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Alpaca Health

Hospitals and Health Care
New York, New York
11-50 employees

Benefits & Perks

Health benefits
Flexible PTO
Equity