What are the responsibilities and job description for the Academic Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD position at Crossover?
You understand that the most supportive action you can take for a student is to maintain rigorous standards. Your background includes competing, creating, or succeeding at levels that most people encounter only in articles: elite-level sports, graduation with honors from a top-ranked university, employment at a highly competitive organization, or launching a venture from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that drive into working with K-12 students who have never had access to someone with your credentials, someone committed to holding them to expectations they never imagined reaching. If the idea of maintaining elite standards for students strikes you as unreasonable, this role is not for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, enabling students to complete their core academic work in roughly two hours per day. The remaining time is dedicated to developing life skills, pursuing personal interests, and fostering authentic development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than basic oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments establish the benchmark: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through obstacles including resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role does not involve teaching. The AI platform delivers all instructional material. Your responsibility is to inspire, guide, and maintain the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching focused on identifying barriers and establishing challenging objectives. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed to build competence, not simply engage. The final twenty percent consists of leading focused morning sessions that cultivate a culture rejecting mediocrity.
The trajectory here emphasizes mastery, not advancement into management. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning students' respect. Within several months, you become the person they trust to push them beyond their perceived limits. The compensation isn't a title change. It's continuity with the same students across years, supporting their development with your consistent presence. It's observing a student who avoided eye contact in September confidently addressing a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a platform for career progression. If your motivation to leave your current position centers on mission rather than résumé enhancement, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
Drive outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill competence at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Basic Requirements
Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?
Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.
They don’t play by the old rules.
Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.
Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.
Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
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-5740-US-SantaBar-AcademicCoach.010
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, enabling students to complete their core academic work in roughly two hours per day. The remaining time is dedicated to developing life skills, pursuing personal interests, and fostering authentic development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than basic oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments establish the benchmark: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through obstacles including resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your role does not involve teaching. The AI platform delivers all instructional material. Your responsibility is to inspire, guide, and maintain the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching focused on identifying barriers and establishing challenging objectives. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed to build competence, not simply engage. The final twenty percent consists of leading focused morning sessions that cultivate a culture rejecting mediocrity.
The trajectory here emphasizes mastery, not advancement into management. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning students' respect. Within several months, you become the person they trust to push them beyond their perceived limits. The compensation isn't a title change. It's continuity with the same students across years, supporting their development with your consistent presence. It's observing a student who avoided eye contact in September confidently addressing a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a platform for career progression. If your motivation to leave your current position centers on mission rather than résumé enhancement, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish challenging objectives, and maintain accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for competence development using authentic examples from your own elite background, then evaluating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the campus performance culture each morning through focused kickoff sessions that reinforce high-achievement expectations
- Monitoring student advancement continuously and modifying coaching approaches based on evidence rather than intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentoring relationships with students and families through consistent high expectations, reliability, and documented motivation strategies
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
- Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your work centers on intensive coaching in small settings, not large-group instruction)
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing administrative advancement (this position focuses on direct student outcomes, not organizational structure)
- Attending faculty meetings or managing institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-centered)
- Reducing standards to achieve targets (if a student reaches 99%, your task is determining what prevented 100%)
Drive outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill competence at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
- At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance
- Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation support provided)
- Legal right to work in the United States
- Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition
Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?
Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.
They don’t play by the old rules.
Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.
Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.
Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.
There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited. Hit the Apply button if you found this interesting and want to learn more. We look forward to meeting you!
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-5740-US-SantaBar-AcademicCoach.010
Salary : $150,000