Head Baseball Coach

Driveline Academy Teams – 18U / 15U Head Coach Job Description

Location: Kent, WA

The Driveline Academy is the home for all of Driveline's youth and amateur baseball-oriented programs and services. The primary responsibility of our Driveline Academy Head Coaches will be working with our high school aged teams for the duration of the season, starting with off-season training and moving into tournament game play. During this period, you'll be with the team, executing programs designed to drive long term development as players grow within the game.

You'll be tasked with running a fun, efficient and engaging baseball practice on a field. You will be working with our staff to ensure each player is developing appropriately, using tools and technology to help players develop their skills, strength, and baseball knowledge. You'll also be responsible for creating, building and strengthening team culture that inspires young players to love the game of baseball, appreciate their developmental progress over time and provides appropriate context for the wins and losses that they will experience along the way.

• Keeping Baseball Fun
• Developing Skills That Scale
• Building Great Ballplayers

• Serve in the Head Coach role for the duration of training & play for the  season (Mid-May - Appx July 2026)
• Execute team training programs during off-season / in-season training & practices
• Manage rosters / lineups in tournament games
• Manage your Assistant Coaches to ensure practices are properly staffed
• Communicate with player's families re: training / practice / tournament schedules

• Tournament Season:
  May - July with occasional on-field practices around our game schedule

• Must be willing to work in Kent, Washington
• Must be willing to commit to a full season's worth of work
• Must be able to lift 40 pounds
• Experience playing collegiate or professional baseball, or coaching high school, collegiate or professional baseball
• Experience communicating with players 18 years of age and younger
• General familiarity using or teaching Driveline's programs or products
• Experience working with a team
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office or Google Docs

• Passionate about youth baseball and its capacity to transform the lives of young baseball players
• Ground level experience with Driveline programs (HTKC & HTKCY, Axe Bat Speed & Axe Youth Bat Speed) in a team setting
• Experience with Hit Trax, Diamond Kinetics or Blast Bat Speed Sensors, Pulse, Pocket Radar, etc
• Access to all Driveline certification courses
• Foundations of Pitching
• Foundations of Hitting
• Foundations of Strength
• Youth Baseball Development
• We are an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, gender identity, marital or veteran status, or any other protected class.