Leadership Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops on life competencies (public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange) for K-8 cohorts, executing Alpha's structured playbook rather than creating original content
• Conducting motivation sessions that leverage student analytics and Alpha's incentive architecture (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal attainment
• Coaching Guides on adherence to program standards and fidelity, ensuring each session yields concrete improvement actions
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously developing other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide performance indicators weekly to identify underperformance early

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching or tutoring students in academic content. Students progress through self-directed apps without adult instruction in the room.
• Creating curriculum or developing lesson plans independently. The playbook is established; your role is faithful execution, not innovation.
• Coaching Guides on instructional pedagogy. Guides don't deliver instruction, so you're coaching energy, motivation, and accountability instead.
• Making exceptions for 99% achievement when 100% is the standard. Maintaining the expectation demonstrates your belief in their capacity to reach it.
• Serving as the "empathy specialist" found in most schools. Students receive connection here, alongside honest feedback and real accountability.

About the Role

The most supportive action you can take for a student who achieves 99% is to inform them they fell short of the standard. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, continue reading.

Alpha students complete their academic work in two hours daily through self-directed AI-powered applications. No traditional teachers. No lectures. No classroom management tied to subject instruction. This structure allows you to focus on the work that genuinely alters student outcomes: facilitating high-energy workshops on public speaking, concentration, and feedback; leveraging real-time analytics to drive students toward complete goal attainment; and coaching the Guides who support you in this mission.

A typical morning may begin with a one-on-one Guide coaching session, analyzing performance data to pinpoint where a cohort is underperforming. By midday, you're facilitating a live student workshop, executing a structured activity on feedback exchange. Afternoons transition to motivation work: engaging individual students, identifying their intrinsic motivators, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a resistant 7th grader.

You maintain direct responsibility for your own cohort, ensuring you remain proficient in the competencies you coach others to build. You've likely been the outlier in educational settings: excessively data-oriented, overly results-driven, too comfortable challenging conventional approaches with students. Alpha may be the first environment where you truly belong.

You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable outcomes at scale, your influence over campus-wide program quality expands. Uphold 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
• Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions
• Direct experience working with kids aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
• Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, business, school, or initiative from the ground up
• Proven use of data and metrics to set weekly goals and drive decisions, not just report results
• Likely to have been the outlier in educational settings: excessively data-oriented, overly results-driven, too comfortable challenging conventional approaches with students

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
• Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth ministry at a scale that required running cohorts and measuring outcomes
• Left classroom teaching to build or run programs from a different seat: EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
• Early-career track record of high personal performance — academic, athletic, or professional — before moving into leadership
• Belief that the current education system is broken and personal investment in 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. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4844-US-SandySpr-LeadershipCoac.013