Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000 annual W2 salary paid on a weekly basis; full health, dental, and vision benefits starting day one
• On-site role at an Alpha K-8 campus located in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; 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 area) — relocation assistance available
  
  

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

The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reached 99% of their target is to decline calling it complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not the right fit. If it energizes you because maintaining standards is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capability, continue reading.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Half your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback exchange. 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 their weekly app objectives. You will not follow a rigid script — workshops provide a framework, but top performers in this role customize them and create new ones when needs arise.

A successful 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 means the role was not executed. In your first year you internalize the playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes available, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct student work.

If you prefer traditional teaching, expect curriculum to be handed to you, or view warmth and rigor as contradictory, this position will not suit you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let a student give up, or performing in front of elementary-aged audiences, the final step before receiving an offer is 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 transferable skills, modifying the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to 100% of their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection 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 communication and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains standards and the adult students trust and seek out; warmth creates the foundation for high expectations, and high expectations communicate your belief in their potential
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is housed in the applications, not delivered by you
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook through energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students while they use computers; motivation in this context is active, personalized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to make it easier for a student to achieve; when a student falls behind, the solution is supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Evaluating homework, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling parent outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other activities do not exist in this model
  
  

Coach Key Responsibilities

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

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT — relocation assistance provided
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum of 3 years of direct experience working 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 objective, your actions, and the result
• Willingness to allow AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Daily use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Personal track record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to rigorous standards is ingrained, not performed
• 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 active, engaged participants
  
  

About Alpha

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 $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-ParkCity-Coach