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 do for a student who scored 99% is inform them they have not met the standard. If that statement causes discomfort, this role is not for you. If it resonates, continue reading.

Alpha students complete their academic learning in two hours daily via self-directed AI-powered applications. No instructors. No traditional lessons. No classroom content management. This structure allows you to focus on work that genuinely shifts student outcomes: facilitating high-impact workshops on public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback; driving students toward complete goal achievement using live analytics; and developing the Guides who support your work.

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

You have likely been the outlier in educational environments: excessively analytical, overly outcome-oriented, too inclined to question conventional approaches with students. Alpha may be your first genuine professional fit. You will coach other Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable results at scale, 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 competencies (public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange) for K-8 (elementary and middle school) cohorts, executing Alpha's structured playbook rather than creating original content
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student analytics and Alpha's incentive mechanisms (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal attainment
• Developing Guides on program adherence and standards execution, with each session yielding concrete improvement directives
• Sustaining your own student cohort while simultaneously advancing other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide performance indicators weekly to identify underperformance before escalation
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures or providing academic tutoring to students. Students progress through self-directed applications without adult supervision.
• Creating curriculum or developing original lesson frameworks. The playbook is established; success is measured by execution fidelity, not creative innovation.
• Developing Guides on instructional methodology. Guides do not teach, so you're coaching energy delivery, motivation tactics, and accountability enforcement instead.
• Granting exceptions when a student achieves 99% rather than 100%. Maintaining the standard demonstrates your conviction in their capability to reach it.
• Serving as the campus "empathy anchor." Students receive genuine connection here, alongside honest feedback and meaningful consequences.
  
  

Head Coach Key Responsibilities

Fulfill 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-Oklahoma-HeadCoach1