Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

• $100,000/year W2 salary paid weekly, with 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. This is about motivation.

The most meaningful support you can offer a student who reached 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as finished. If that principle feels uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it energizes you—because maintaining high standards is how you demonstrate your belief in a student's potential—read on.

Alpha students engage with their academic learning through AI-powered applications. No traditional lectures. No textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering topics like public speaking, focus, and constructive feedback exchange. The remaining 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 targets. You will not follow a rigid script—workshops provide a foundation, but top performers in this role customize them and create new sessions when needs arise.

Success each 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 job has not been fulfilled. In your first year, you will internalize the operational playbook; once you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible, where you mentor new hires while continuing direct student engagement.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, expect curriculum to be handed to you, or view warmth and rigor as opposing forces, this role will not suit you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performing for young audiences, the final interview stage is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect is what 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 foundational competencies, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify unmet needs
• 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 relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill and coaching students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Tailoring your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing candid conversation and accountability
• Serving as the adult who maintains high expectations and the adult students want to confide in; warmth grants you the credibility to challenge, and challenging demonstrates your confidence in their capability
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic instruction is embedded in the apps, not your direct teaching
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook with energy and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this context is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly target to enable a student to meet it; when a student falls behind, the solution involves supporting the student, not adjusting the goal
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Coach Key Responsibilities

Drive every student in your K-8 cohort to complete their weekly learning targets, achieve mastery in each life skill, and finish the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Able 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 available
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, 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
• Openness to allowing AI to manage instructional content 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 US without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or extracurricular programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable outcomes
• Personal track record of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that maintaining rigorous standards for others is a consistent trait, not an adopted stance
• Narrative ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or resistant students into active, willing 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-CollegeS-Coach.001