Associate, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

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

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

The most meaningful way to support a student who reached 99% of their target is to decline to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you—because maintaining a high standard demonstrates your belief in what a student can achieve—read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No traditional lectures. No printed textbooks. Half of your workday is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving candid feedback. The remaining half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each toward 100% completion of weekly app targets. You will not follow a rigid script—workshops serve as frameworks, and those who excel in this role modify them or create new ones when existing materials fall short.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any one of these three metrics is falling short of the role. In your first year, you will internalize the operational playbook; as you demonstrate the ability to uphold standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor newer team members while continuing direct work with students.

If you are drawn to traditional classroom teaching, prefer receiving ready-made curriculum, or see warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will not suit you. If you have been a sports coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who refused to let a child give up, or a performer capable of commanding the attention of eight-year-olds, the final stage before an offer 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 sessions for K-8 cohorts on topics including public speaking, focus, feedback, and other lasting competencies, modifying the existing playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (campus currency, leaderboards), and your personal rapport with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until mastery is achieved
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains the standard and the adult students choose to confide in; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge signals your confidence in their capacity
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the applications, not delivered by you
• Developing curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring children at workstations; motivation in this context is hands-on, interpersonal, and continuous
• Adjusting a weekly target downward to enable a student to meet it; when a student is behind, the solution is to support the student, not to lower the bar
• Assessing homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not apply here
  
  

Associate Key Responsibilities

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

Basic Requirements

• Available 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 discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, 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 goal itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Regular use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto location)
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward measurable objectives
• Personal record of exceptional achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to rigorous standards is intrinsic rather than performative
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success in converting disengaged or reluctant students into engaged contributors
  
  

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-Oklahoma-Associate1