Director of Learning & Development, Alpha - $200,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour interactive workshops on life skills and social-emotional learning (SEL) for K-8 students, covering areas such as public speaking and concentration, using Alpha's established framework.
• Conducting daily motivational sessions designed to propel 100% of students toward weekly application milestones through age-appropriate mechanisms including school currency and competitive leaderboards.
• Developing Guides via direct observation, specific feedback, and practical coaching to ensure they execute workshops with equivalent enthusiasm and accuracy.
• Analyzing Coachbot data and individual student records to pinpoint students requiring additional support, then providing that support directly.
• Directly mentoring your assigned student cohort, demonstrating the coaching and motivational techniques you expect every Guide to replicate.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Developing lesson plans or creating curriculum. Students engage with adaptive apps; your responsibility is elevating the people who guide them.
• Delivering traditional lectures to a seated class. You operate as 80% motivator, 20% content expert; if you prefer standing at a whiteboard, this role won't suit you.
• Compromising standards due to external pressure from parents or administrators. When a student reaches 99%, the response remains "not yet" — and you will be empowered to maintain that position.
• Spending your time in an office processing administrative documents. The majority of your day involves direct interaction with students and Guides.
• Waiting extended periods for performance assessment. Outcomes are visible in real time through Coachbot, and adjustments are made immediately.

Key Responsibilities

• Execute Alpha's 3 Promises throughout your cohort and among the Guides under your supervision: every student develops genuine love for school, achieves learning at 2x traditional pace, and acquires authentic life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Currently residing 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 degree preferred; conventional teaching certifications not required).
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, or comparable field.
• Demonstrated experience creating and executing educational programs, curricula, or training initiatives.
• Proven leadership record managing teams of 5 or more individuals, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions.
• Background in coaching, mentoring, or delivering constructive feedback to enhance engagement and performance outcomes.
• Direct experience working with children ages 5–14 in educational or developmental contexts.
• Strong capability in leveraging data and metrics to inform decisions and drive continuous improvement.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, or Business.
• Experience as an athletic coach, camp director, or youth program coordinator where you directly inspired children to achieve quantifiable goals.
• History of coaching adults in positions where performance was actively measured and evaluated.
• Natural ability to engage large groups of children. The caliber of presence that commands attention in 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.
• Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.