Coaching Manager, Alpha - $200,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops in life skills and social-emotional learning (SEL) for K-8 students covering subjects such as public speaking and concentration, adhering to Alpha's defined playbook.
• Conducting daily motivation sessions designed to propel 100% of students toward weekly app objectives using developmentally appropriate incentives including school currency and leaderboards.
• Developing Guides through direct observation, precise feedback, and practical coaching so they execute workshops with equivalent energy and accuracy to your own delivery.
• Analyzing Coachbot data and student profiles to pinpoint individuals requiring intervention, then providing that intervention directly.
• Directly mentoring your assigned student cohort, demonstrating the coaching and motivation techniques you require from every Guide.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Creating lesson plans or developing curriculum. Students progress through adaptive apps; your responsibility is elevating the people surrounding them.
• Delivering traditional classroom lectures. Your role is 80% performance, 20% content expertise; if standing at a whiteboard appeals to you, look elsewhere.
• Compromising standards due to pressure from parents or administration. When a student achieves 99%, the response is "not yet" — and you'll receive full support to maintain that boundary.
• Working from an office reviewing administrative documents. The majority of your time is spent directly with students and Guides.
• Waiting extended periods for performance feedback. Results appear live in Coachbot and adjustments occur the same day.

Key Responsibilities

• Fulfill Alpha's 3 Promises for your cohort and the Guides under your leadership: every child develops a love for school, learns at 2x velocity, and acquires tangible life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Currently located in or prepared to relocate to Beverly Hills, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Miami, FL; Boston, MA; Raleigh, NC; New York City, NY; Seattle, WA (relocation assistance provided).
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline (Master's preferred; traditional teaching certifications are not required).
• Minimum 5 years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, or related area.
• Demonstrated experience creating and executing educational programs, curricula, or training initiatives.
• Proven history of managing a team of 5 or more individuals, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions.
• Experience providing coaching, mentoring, or constructive feedback to enhance engagement and performance outcomes.
• Experience engaging with youth ages 5–14 in educational or developmental contexts.
• Competency in leveraging data and metrics to inform decisions and foster continuous improvement.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, or Business.
• Experience as an athletic coach, camp director, or youth program leader where you directly motivated children to achieve quantifiable goals.
• Background coaching adults in positions where performance was measured and evaluated.
• Confidence performing before large groups of children. The kind of presence that commands attention from a room full of 8-year-olds.

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 $100 USD/hour, which equates to $200,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year.
• The payment period is weekly.