Peak Performance Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

About the Role

Alpha School leverages AI-driven 1:1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in approximately two hours daily. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At our most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight—they need a credible mentor who can assess the environment, establish expectations, and guide them through resistance, lack of focus, and uncertainty. This is not conventional classroom teaching. You won't deliver lectures, assign grades, or develop lesson plans. You will coach. You will facilitate structured life-skills training. You will analyze data to identify obstacles preventing student progress, then apply precise, supportive pressure until they execute.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitate 1:1 and small-group coaching that converts student objectives into reliable execution and quantifiable advancement
• Leverage analytics and individual goals to identify barriers and establish challenging, personalized accountability frameworks
• Conduct structured life-skills workshops grounded in authentic narrative, self-assessment, and practical implementation, followed by competency evaluation
• Guide daily opening sessions that establish culture, communicate high standards, and prepare students before work begins
• Build trusted relationships with students and families through unwavering expectations, reliability, and thoughtful decision-making

What You Won't Be Doing

• Deliver classroom instruction, lectures, or academic tutoring in a conventional teaching capacity
• Develop curriculum, write lesson plans, or evaluate student assignments
• Supervise staff, oversee campus operations, or assume administrative management responsibilities
• Compromise standards to achieve immediate compliance or superficial results

Key Responsibilities

This position ensures that students at Alpha's most rigorous campuses remain deeply engaged and accomplish sustained development and life-skill proficiency through elite, high-standards coaching.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least one clear elite marker (athletics, academics, career achievement, or elite coaching)
• Experience in people-facing mentoring, coaching, or leadership that measurably raised others' performance
• Comfort operating in high-accountability environments with clear standards and follow-through
• Ability to lead engaging, high-rigor group sessions and coach individuals with strong judgment
• Willingness to work full-time (40 hours/week) in person at Alpha's Austin campus
• Legal right to work in the U.S.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Multiple elite markers with clear evidence of raising standards and outcomes
• Experience using data and analytics to drive coaching plans and accountability
• Background in selective firms, competitive startups, or elite athletics programs with intense performance expectations

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.

Pay & Schedule

• Full-time (40 hours per week), long-term position
• Immediately available
• $75 USD/hour, equating to $150,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year
• Weekly payment period
• Requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record