What are the responsibilities and job description for the Academic Success Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD position at Crossover?
You see refusing to lower the bar as the most respectful thing you can do for a student. You have competed, built, or succeeded at a level most people only observe from a distance: elite-level athletics, graduation with honors from a top university, a position at a highly competitive firm, or a company you founded and grew. Now imagine applying that same rigor in a setting with K-12 students who have never had someone like you guiding them—someone who insists they meet standards they never imagined reaching. If the idea of holding students to elite expectations feels too demanding, this role is not for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to allow students to complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The rest of their time is devoted to life skills, passion projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose record of achievement models what excellence looks like: someone capable of reading a room, establishing expectations, and coaching through resistance, distraction, and self-doubt.
Your role is not to teach. AI manages the academic instruction. Your role is to motivate, coach, and enforce the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent on direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is spent leading morning kickoffs that define a culture in which mediocrity is not tolerated.
The trajectory here is depth, not upward mobility. You begin by mastering Alpha's approach and earning the trust of students. Within a few months, you become the person they rely on to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff is not a title change. It is the same cohort of students, year over year, maturing with you as their constant. It is seeing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-focused. Students are the purpose, not a pathway to another role. If your motivation for leaving your current position is the mission rather than the credential, apply now.
What You Will Be Doing
Lead exceptional student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding 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-OrangeCo-AcademicSucces.001
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction to allow students to complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The rest of their time is devoted to life skills, passion projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose record of achievement models what excellence looks like: someone capable of reading a room, establishing expectations, and coaching through resistance, distraction, and self-doubt.
Your role is not to teach. AI manages the academic instruction. Your role is to motivate, coach, and enforce the same exacting standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent on direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish ambitious targets. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is spent leading morning kickoffs that define a culture in which mediocrity is not tolerated.
The trajectory here is depth, not upward mobility. You begin by mastering Alpha's approach and earning the trust of students. Within a few months, you become the person they rely on to challenge them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff is not a title change. It is the same cohort of students, year over year, maturing with you as their constant. It is seeing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-focused. Students are the purpose, not a pathway to another role. If your motivation for leaving your current position is the mission rather than the credential, apply now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions using Coachbot analytics and student data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on credible stories from your own elite background, and evaluating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing the cultural standard each morning through focused kickoffs that communicate high-performance expectations across campus
- Monitoring student progress in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining high standards, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
- Teaching lessons, creating curriculum, or grading assignments — Alpha's AI-driven academic platform manages instruction; you manage motivation
- Presenting to a classroom of 30 students (your work is intensive coaching in small groups, not large-format teaching)
- Supervising other staff or advancing through an administrative track (this role centers on direct student impact, not organizational advancement)
- Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your time remains concentrated on students)
- Reducing expectations to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to understand 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 example of extraordinary 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 improved others' performance
- Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Orange County, CA; Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Kirkland (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-OrangeCo-AcademicSucces.001
Salary : $150,000