What are the responsibilities and job description for the Academic Success Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD position at Crossover?
You know the greatest service you can offer a student is to keep the bar high. Your background includes competition, creation, or accomplishment at a level most people only observe from a distance: elite-level sports, a distinguished degree from a top university, selection by a highly competitive firm, or a venture you launched and grew yourself. Now imagine channeling that drive into working with K-12 students who have never encountered someone like you—someone ready to hold them to standards they didn't realize they were capable of meeting. If the idea of maintaining elite expectations for students feels too rigid, this isn't the right fit.
Alpha leverages AI to deliver 1-on-1 academic instruction, enabling students to complete core learning in roughly two hours each day. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, pursuing passions, and genuine personal development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model what's possible: someone capable of reading a room, establishing culture, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and doubt.
Your role is not instructional. AI manages the academic content. Your responsibility is to motivate, coach, and uphold the same exacting standards you've applied to your own life. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group sessions that identify obstacles and establish ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement alone. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning kickoffs that set a daily tone where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they allow to push them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's continuity with the same students, year over year, as they mature with your guidance. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the objective, not a pathway to something else. If you're seeking to leave your current role because of the mission itself rather than career optics, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.
Basic Requirements
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.
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-SantaMon-AcademicSucces.001
Alpha leverages AI to deliver 1-on-1 academic instruction, enabling students to complete core learning in roughly two hours each day. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, pursuing passions, and genuine personal development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments model what's possible: someone capable of reading a room, establishing culture, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and doubt.
Your role is not instructional. AI manages the academic content. Your responsibility is to motivate, coach, and uphold the same exacting standards you've applied to your own life. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group sessions that identify obstacles and establish ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement alone. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning kickoffs that set a daily tone where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they allow to push them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's continuity with the same students, year over year, as they mature with your guidance. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the objective, not a pathway to something else. If you're seeking to leave your current role because of the mission itself rather than career optics, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that leverage Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops focused on mastery, drawing on credible personal narratives from your own high-level experience, and evaluating mastery through Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the campus culture each morning with focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance standards across the student body
- Monitoring student development in real time and refining coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and their families by maintaining high standards, consistency, and clearly documented motivation strategies
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or grading work — Alpha's AI-driven academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
- Presenting to a full classroom of 30 students (your work centers on high-impact coaching with small groups, not large-scale instruction)
- Supervising other personnel or advancing through an administrative hierarchy (this role prioritizes direct student impact over organizational management)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-focused)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to understand what prevented 100%)
Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation 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
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.
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-SantaMon-AcademicSucces.001
Salary : $150,000