Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour workshops on life competencies (public speaking, focus, feedback exchange) for K-8 cohorts, executing Alpha's structured playbook rather than creating content independently
• Conducting motivation sessions that leverage student data and Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% goal attainment across your cohort
• Coaching Guides on playbook adherence and standard enforcement, ensuring each session yields concrete action steps for improvement
• Managing your own student cohort simultaneously with Guide development responsibilities
• Monitoring weekly metrics—student satisfaction, goal completion, Guide performance—to identify and address underperformance early

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching or tutoring academic subjects. Students progress through self-directed apps independently, without direct adult instruction.
• Creating curriculum or developing original lesson plans. You execute existing playbooks; success is measured by delivery precision, not creative innovation.
• Coaching Guides on instructional methods. Guides don't deliver instruction, so your coaching centers on energy, motivation, and accountability.
• Lowering standards when a student reaches 99% instead of 100%. Upholding the full expectation is how you communicate your belief in their capability.
• Serving as the campus empathy outlet. Students receive genuine connection here, alongside direct feedback and meaningful accountability.

About the Role

Alpha students complete their academic learning in two hours daily via self-directed AI tools. No traditional teachers. No lectures. No content delivery by adults. That clears your schedule for what truly shifts outcomes: running high-impact workshops on focus, public speaking, and feedback; using live data to push every student toward goal completion; and coaching the Guides who support your campus.

A typical morning could include a coaching conversation with a Guide, analyzing performance metrics to pinpoint where a cohort is slipping. By midday, you're facilitating a structured workshop with students—executing a playbook module on feedback exchange. Your afternoons pivot to motivation work: engaging individual students, diagnosing what moves them, and applying Alpha's incentive architecture to reconnect a disengaged middle schooler. You manage your own cohort throughout, keeping your skills current alongside the Guides you develop. You've likely been the outlier in educational settings: overly metric-focused, overly direct, unwilling to accept what's considered normal for student performance. Alpha may be the first environment that rewards those traits.

You'll coach Guides immediately, and as you scale your impact, your authority over program-wide standards expands. Maintain the standard. Transform the student.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-campus in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a comparable field
• Demonstrated history of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions
• Direct experience working with children aged 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts
• Built, launched, or significantly scaled a program, team, business, school, or initiative from inception
• Documented use of data and metrics to establish weekly goals and inform decisions, not merely to track outcomes
• Legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
• Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education programs, directing camps, or managing youth ministry at a scale requiring cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned out of classroom teaching to build or operate programs in adjacent roles: EdTech, tutoring enterprises, youth-focused nonprofits, or school intervention initiatives
• Early-career record of exceptional individual performance—academic, athletic, or professional—prior to transitioning into leadership
• Conviction that the current education system is failing students and personal commitment to rebuilding it

About Alpha

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.

Working with Us

This is a full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position. The position is immediately available and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The compensation level for this role is $75 USD/hour, which equates to $150,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly.