Career Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

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

This is not a teaching position. This is motivation.

The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that principle unsettles you, this role is not a fit. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capability, continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning occurs through AI-powered applications. No lectures or textbooks. Half of each day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and how to give and receive meaningful feedback. The other half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of weekly app goals. You will not follow a rigid script—workshops provide a foundation, but top performers adapt and create new sessions when gaps emerge.

Success in any given quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90% report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three metrics is falling short of the role. In your first year you will master the operational playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, the pathway to Lead Guide opens, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct student engagement.

If you are drawn to traditional classroom teaching, prefer ready-made curriculum, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this is not the right opportunity. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let a student give up, or performing for rooms full of young children, the final step before receiving an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering public speaking, focus, feedback, and other essential skills, adapting existing content and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions designed to drive every student to 100% completion of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and personal relationships to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill and coaching 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 engagement to 8th graders needing candid conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students trust and want to engage with; earning warmth grants you permission to push, and pushing communicates your confidence in their potential
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the applications, not in your instruction
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to help a student achieve it; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Career Coach Key Responsibilities

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

Basic Requirements

• Able to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Denver, CO; Atlanta, GA; 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 working directly with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can articulate of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the specific goal, your actions, and the result
• Comfort allowing AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily usage of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US 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 programming where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined goals
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional) such that holding others to demanding standards is consistent behavior, not an adopted stance
• 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 converting disengaged or resistant students into engaged 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-Phoenix-CareerCoach.025