Associate, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly; full health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-campus role at an Alpha K-8 school in Denver, CO; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT (greater Salt Lake City); or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance available)
  
  

This is not a teaching position. This is motivation work.

The most meaningful thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because holding the standard is how you demonstrate belief in a student's ability to meet it—read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-powered applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. The other half is dedicated to one-on-one and small-group sessions where you review student progress via Coachbot analytics and drive each individual toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets. You will not be reading from a script—workshops provide a foundation, but the strongest performers in this role customize them and build new content when needed.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% or more report that they love you. Falling short on any one of these is falling short of the role. In your first year, you'll master the operational playbook; once you prove you can maintain the standard, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor newer hires while continuing to work directly with students.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, expect a ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this is not the right fit. If you've worked as a sports coach, camp leader, tutor who wouldn't let a student give up, or a performer capable of commanding a room of eight-year-olds, the final interview stage is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 groups on subjects including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the existing playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group coaching sessions that drive every student to 100% of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational tools (campus currency, leaderboards), and individual student relationships to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, then coaching students who fall short until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners who thrive on energy and physical activity to eighth graders who respond to direct conversation and personal accountability
• Serving as the adult who upholds expectations and the adult students trust and confide in; warmth creates permission to push, and pushing demonstrates your confidence in their capacity
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is delivered through the apps, not by you
• Building curriculum from the ground up; you activate an established playbook with energy and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this environment is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Evaluating homework, running test prep, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage family communication, and the other tasks don't exist in this model
  
  

Associate Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, demonstrates mastery of each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation assistance provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Regular use of generative AI platforms (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate programs, camp leadership, theater, or extracurricular programs where you held direct accountability for motivating young people toward defined outcomes
• Demonstrated personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) such that maintaining rigorous standards for others is ingrained, not performative
• Narrative ability and presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Proven ability to convert disengaged or reluctant students into active, committed participants
  
  

About Alpha

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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 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-4415-US-Nashvill-Associate.007