Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• On-campus at an Alpha site: Atlanta, GA
• Oklahoma City, OK
• Tulsa, OK
• Austin, TX
• Keller (Fort Worth), TX
• The Woodlands (Houston), TX
• Park City (Salt Lake City), UT
• Toronto, Canada
• $150,000 annual W2 salary, distributed weekly. Full health benefits starting day one.
• Relocation assistance provided
  
  

The most helpful response to a student who achieves 99% is to say they fell short. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, read on.

Alpha students complete their academic work in two hours daily using AI-driven self-guided applications. No instructors. No lectures. No content-focused classroom oversight. This structure liberates you to focus on what fundamentally shifts student outcomes: delivering dynamic workshops on public speaking, concentration, and critique; driving students toward complete goal attainment through live analytics; and developing the Guides who support your work.

A typical morning begins with a one-on-one Guide development session, analyzing performance metrics and pinpointing cohort gaps. By noon you're facilitating a live student workshop, executing a structured activity on feedback exchange. The afternoon transitions to motivation work: engaging individual students, identifying their personal drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a disengaged seventh grader. You manage your own cohort simultaneously, keeping your execution skills aligned with what you're teaching others.

You've likely felt misaligned in traditional education: excessively analytical, overly outcome-oriented, too ready to question conventional approaches with young people. Alpha may be your first true professional home. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as your results scale, your authority over campus-wide program standards expands.

Maintain the expectation. Transform the learner. Submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating hour-long structured workshops on essential competencies (public speaking, concentration, feedback delivery and reception) for elementary and middle school cohorts (K-8), executing Alpha's curriculum framework rather than creating original content
• Conducting motivation interventions leveraging student data and Alpha's reward architecture (campus currency, performance rankings) to achieve 100% goal attainment across your cohort
• Developing Guides through focused coaching on program adherence and standards maintenance, ensuring each session yields concrete performance improvement steps
• Directly managing your own student cohort while simultaneously building Guide capability
• Monitoring student engagement metrics, completion percentages, and Guide effectiveness indicators weekly to identify performance degradation before it escalates
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Instructing or tutoring students in academic content. Academic learning occurs through independent app-based work without direct adult instruction.
• Creating curriculum materials or developing original lesson frameworks. The instructional playbook is established; success depends on execution precision, not creative invention.
• Coaching Guides on instructional pedagogy. Since Guides don't deliver academic instruction, your coaching centers on enthusiasm, student motivation, and accountability systems instead.
• Lowering standards when a student reaches 99% rather than 100%. Maintaining high expectations demonstrates your confidence in their capacity to achieve mastery.
• Serving as the campus's emotional safety net. Students receive genuine connection alongside direct feedback and meaningful accountability.
  
  

Coach Key Responsibilities

Execute Alpha's three core commitments for every student under your leadership: genuine enthusiasm for school, learning velocity double that of conventional classrooms, and measurable life skill development.

Basic Requirements

• Available to work on-site at one of these Alpha campuses: Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Toronto, Canada (relocation support available)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline
• 5 years professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable sector
• Demonstrated leadership of a team comprising 5 or more adults, including responsibility for recruitment and performance-based dismissal decisions
• Hands-on experience working with children ages 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts
• History of building, launching, or substantially scaling a program, team, business, school, or initiative from inception
• Documented experience using data and metrics to establish weekly objectives and inform decisions, beyond simple performance reporting
• Legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related field
• Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education programs, directing residential camps, or managing youth ministry at sufficient scale to require cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned from classroom instruction to program leadership roles in adjacent spaces: EdTech companies, tutoring organizations, youth-focused nonprofits, or academic intervention teams
• History of exceptional individual achievement early in career — academically, athletically, or professionally — prior to transitioning into leadership positions
• Strong conviction that traditional education systems are fundamentally flawed and personal commitment to systemic reform
  
  

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-4844-US-Atlanta-Coach.076