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

• On-site at an Alpha campus: 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/year W2 salary, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits.
• Relocation support available
  
  

The most valuable thing you can offer a student who scored 99% is clarity that they haven't yet met the standard. If that statement causes discomfort, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, continue reading.

Alpha students complete their academic learning in two hours daily using self-guided AI-powered applications. No traditional teachers. No lectures. No classroom subject management. This structure allows you to focus on the work that fundamentally alters student outcomes: delivering high-energy workshops on public speaking, focus, and feedback; using real-time analytics to motivate students toward complete goal achievement; and developing the Guides who support you.

A typical morning may include a one-on-one Guide coaching session, analyzing performance data and pinpointing cohort gaps. By midday you're facilitating a live student workshop, executing a playbook exercise on feedback dynamics. Afternoons transition to motivation work: engaging individual students, identifying their drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a struggling 7th grader. You maintain direct responsibility for your own cohort, ensuring you remain proficient in the competencies you're teaching others.

You've likely been the outlier in education: excessively data-oriented, overly results-driven, too ready to question conventional approaches to student development. Alpha may be the first environment that aligns with your approach. You'll develop other Guides immediately, and as you demonstrate scaled impact, your authority over campus-wide program standards expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops on life skills (public speaking, focus, giving and receiving feedback) for K-8 (elementary and middle school) cohorts, executing Alpha's playbook with precision rather than creating original content
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student analytics and Alpha's incentive structure (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal completion
• Developing Guides on program adherence and standards enforcement, ensuring every coaching interaction yields concrete improvement steps
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously building Guide capability
• Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance data weekly to identify declining performance before it escalates
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Lecturing or tutoring students on academic subjects. Students complete academic work through self-guided apps without direct adult instruction.
• Creating curriculum or developing lesson plans independently. The playbook is established; success depends on execution fidelity, not creative innovation.
• Coaching Guides on instructional technique. Guides don't deliver instruction, so your coaching focuses on energy, motivation, and accountability.
• Accepting 99% when the standard is 100%. Maintaining the standard demonstrates your belief in their capacity to achieve it.
• Serving as the "big ball of empathy" common in traditional schools. Students receive connection alongside honest feedback and meaningful consequences.
  
  

Head Coach Key Responsibilities

Deliver Alpha's three commitments to every student in your cohort: they love school, learn twice as fast as a traditional classroom, and develop real life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-campus in 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 provided)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• 5 years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a comparable field
• Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions
• Direct experience working with kids aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
• Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, business, school, or initiative from the ground up
• Proven use of data and metrics to set weekly goals and drive decisions, not just report results
• Legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
• Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth ministry at a scale that required running cohorts and measuring outcomes
• Left classroom teaching to build or run programs from a different seat: EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
• Early-career track record of high personal performance — academic, athletic, or professional — before moving into leadership
• Belief that the current education system is broken and personal investment in rebuilding it
  
  

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-Houston-HeadCoach.009