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

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour interactive life skills and social-emotional learning (SEL) sessions with K-8 students covering topics such as public speaking and focus, adhering to Alpha's established playbook.
• Conducting daily motivation sessions that ensure 100% of students reach their weekly app-based goals through age-appropriate incentives including school currency and leaderboards.
• Developing Guides via observation, precise feedback, and direct mentorship so they execute workshops with equivalent energy and consistency to your own.
• Analyzing Coachbot data and student records to pinpoint who requires intervention, then delivering that intervention yourself.
• Personally mentoring your designated student cohort, exemplifying the coaching and motivational techniques you expect every Guide to employ.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Creating lesson plans or developing curriculum. Students engage with adaptive apps; your responsibility is making the people who support them exceptional.
• Delivering traditional classroom lectures. You're 80% performer, 20% content expert; if you prefer standing at a whiteboard, this role isn't the right fit.
• Compromising standards due to pressure from parents or administrators. When a student achieves 99%, the response is "not yet" — and you'll be empowered to maintain that standard.
• Spending time in an office managing paperwork. The majority of your day involves direct interaction with students and Guides.
• Waiting weeks for performance evaluations. Outcomes are visible in real time via Coachbot, and adjustments occur immediately.

Director Of Learning & Development Key Responsibilities

• Fulfill Alpha's 3 Promises for your cohort and the Guides under your leadership: every student loves school, learns at 2x the standard pace, and develops genuine life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Currently located in or willing 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 support is provided).
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline (Master's degree preferred; traditional teaching certifications are not sought).
• Minimum 5 years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, or comparable field.
• Proven experience designing and executing educational programs, curricula, or training initiatives.
• Demonstrated history of managing a team of 5 or more individuals, including hiring and making performance-driven termination decisions.
• Proven ability coaching, mentoring, or delivering constructive feedback to enhance engagement and performance.
• Experience engaging with youth ages 5–14 in educational or developmental contexts.
• Strong capability using 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 leader where you directly motivated children to achieve quantifiable objectives.
• Background coaching adults in positions where their performance was measured and evaluated.
• Confidence performing before large groups of children. The type 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.