What are the responsibilities and job description for the Academic Success Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD position at Crossover?
You believe that refusing to lower the bar is the kindest thing you can do for a student. Your background includes competing, building, or achieving at a level most people only encounter through books: elite athletic performance, graduation with distinction from a top-tier university, a role at a highly selective firm, or launching a venture from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that intensity into a classroom of K-12 students who have never had someone with your credentials backing them, holding them to standards they didn't realize they could meet. If maintaining elite standards for students strikes you as too demanding, this role isn't for you.
Alpha leverages AI-powered 1-on-1 learning that enables students to master core academics in roughly two hours each day. The remainder of their time is allocated to life skills, passion-driven projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a trusted mentor whose personal accomplishments establish the benchmark: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and moments of self-doubt.
Your role is not instructional. AI manages the academic content delivery. Your responsibility is to motivate, coach, 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 to identify obstacles and establish ambitious objectives. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning sessions that set daily expectations and build a culture where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's approach and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person students rely on to push them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's continuity with the same students, year after year, as they mature with you supporting them. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September confidently address a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-focused. Students are the mission, not a pathway to something else. If you're seeking to leave your current role because of the mission itself, not the credential, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
Lead exceptional student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding 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-Boston-AcademicSucces
Alpha leverages AI-powered 1-on-1 learning that enables students to master core academics in roughly two hours each day. The remainder of their time is allocated to life skills, passion-driven projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a trusted mentor whose personal accomplishments establish the benchmark: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and moments of self-doubt.
Your role is not instructional. AI manages the academic content delivery. Your responsibility is to motivate, coach, 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 to identify obstacles and establish ambitious objectives. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning sessions that set daily expectations and build a culture where mediocrity has no place.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's approach and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person students rely on to push them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's continuity with the same students, year after year, as they mature with you supporting them. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September confidently address a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-focused. Students are the mission, not a pathway to something else. If you're seeking to leave your current role because of the mission itself, not the credential, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure student accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on credible examples from your own elite background, then evaluating mastery using Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the campus culture each morning through focused sessions that reinforce high-performance standards across the student body
- Monitoring student advancement in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on evidence rather than intuition
- Developing trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining high expectations, demonstrating consistency, and documenting motivation strategies
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; you manage motivation
- Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your work centers on high-touch coaching with small groups, not large-scale instruction)
- Supervising other staff or pursuing an administrative career path (this role focuses on direct student impact, not organizational advancement)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your time remains concentrated on students)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieved 99%, your responsibility is determining what prevented 100%)
Lead exceptional student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding campuses.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized field (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 positions where you demonstrably elevated 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) combined with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability settings such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Demonstrated history of youth development through mentoring outside academic contexts (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Confidence presenting to and establishing rapport with high-expectation families investing in 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-Boston-AcademicSucces
Salary : $150,000