Academic Success Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

About Alpha

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

About the Role

Alpha leverages AI to deliver 1-on-1 instruction that allows students to complete core academic work in roughly two hours each day. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and authentic development. On Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model the standard: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through friction, distraction, and uncertainty.

Your role is not instructional. AI manages the academic delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, coach, and apply the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group sessions that identify obstacles and establish challenging objectives. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for competency, not engagement. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning sessions that set a daily tone where mediocrity is not tolerated.

The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The return is not a title change. It is continuity: the same students, year after year, maturing with your guidance. It is witnessing a student who struggled with eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to adults in May. This position remains student-centered. Students are the mission, not a pathway to something else.

Responsibilities

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student data to identify barriers, establish ambitious targets, and ensure student accountability for execution
• Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on credible examples from your own high-level experience, then validating mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework
• Establishing the campus culture each morning via focused opening sessions that communicate high-performance standards
• Monitoring student progress continuously and refining coaching approaches based on evidence, not assumption
• Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining rigorous standards, reliability, and documented motivation frameworks

What You Won't Be Doing

• Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-driven academic platform manages instruction; you manage motivation
• Addressing a classroom of 30 students (your focus is intensive coaching in small settings, not mass instruction)
• Supervising other personnel or pursuing an administrative career path (this role centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational management)
• Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-focused)
• Reducing standards to meet targets (if a student achieved 99%, your role is to identify what prevented 100%)

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
• At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance
• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Orange County, CA; Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Kirkland (Seattle), WA (relocation support provided)
• Legal right to work in the United States

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
• Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
• Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
• Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition

Pay & Schedule

• Full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position
• Immediately available
• $75 USD/hour, equating to $150,000 USD/year (assuming 40 hours/week and 50 weeks/year)
• Weekly payment period
• Requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record