Business Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• On-site role in Austin, TX (we provide relocation support)
• $150,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Health benefits begin day one.
  
  

The best way to support a teenage entrepreneur is to refuse to accept mediocrity. You understand that holding high standards isn't adding pressure—it's showing you believe they can reach those standards. If that perspective resonates, continue reading.

You'll work with high school students who are building genuine companies with $1M potential. These aren't classroom exercises or mock ventures. Approximately 60-65% of your time will be dedicated to individual coaching sessions: pinpointing where each founder is blocked, determining the most impactful next step, and ensuring they commit to a concrete action plan. The remaining 35-40% is divided between academic supervision and facilitating workshops designed to build practical skills, not simply deliver content.

This role is not traditional teaching. You are accountable for student outcomes across three dimensions: venture advancement, academic performance, and personal development. You will rely on dashboards, business progress reports, and academic metrics to coach with data-driven precision rather than gut feeling. When a student's grades begin to decline, you step in proactively. When a venture hits a plateau, you surface the underlying issue, not the surface-level symptom.

Your first step is understanding each student's business, their natural strengths, and their recurring obstacles. Within a few months, you become the person whose challenge they respect, because you've operated in similar environments yourself. The payoff is seeing a 16-year-old who arrived with an idea depart with a working business, the self-discipline to sustain it, and academic results that preserve future opportunities.

If you've been seeking a position where your operational background directly influences emerging founders, submit your application now. If you require a scripted curriculum, a stable classroom routine, or a setting where effort alone is celebrated, this isn't the right fit.

What You Will Be Doing

• Providing 1:1 coaching to student founders on strategy, execution, and scaling—around two-thirds of your weekly hours
• Leveraging student dashboards, business status updates, and academic metrics to assess progress and clarify next steps
• Tracking academic results and stepping in early when attention or time management begins to falter
• Designing and delivering workshops with tangible, skills-based outcomes
• Running stand-ups, debriefs, and group sessions that maintain student accountability to their commitments
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching lectures or adhering to a predetermined syllabus (you guide applied learning, not traditional instruction)
• Offering broad mentorship or motivational speeches without tying them to specific action plans
• Handling student administration—scheduling, forms, or enrollment tasks
• Attending faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your focus remains on students)
  
  

Business Coach Key Responsibilities

Guide student founders toward building ventures with $1M potential while ensuring they maintain strong academic standing.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at Alpha High School in Austin, TX (relocation support provided)
• At least 2 years of experience coaching or developing others (direct reports, peers, or clients), with a concrete example of a coaching engagement and its results
• Professional background where you owned key outcomes or performance metrics, including at least one instance showing $500,000 annual revenue impact
• At least 1 year working with young people (students, early-career professionals, or youth program participants) on projects, learning objectives, or entrepreneurial efforts
• Legally authorized to work in the United States
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience founding, co-founding, or operating a startup or early-stage venture
• Background as a Chief of Staff, program manager, or high-impact individual contributor with end-to-end outcome ownership
• Proficiency using AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Copilot) to enhance coaching preparation, analysis, or communication
• Experience in K-12 education, EdTech, or programs combining academics with real-world execution (accelerators, project-based learning, entrepreneurship initiatives)
  
  

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 $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-5757-US-Alexandr-BusinessCoach