What are the responsibilities and job description for the High-Performance Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD position at Crossover?
You know that the most supportive thing you can offer a student is the refusal to compromise standards. Your own record includes competition, creation, or accomplishment at a level few people experience firsthand: elite sport, graduation with distinction from a highly selective university, employment at a top-tier firm, or a venture you founded and grew. Now imagine channeling that drive into a classroom of K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials willing to demand excellence from them—someone who will push them toward standards they never imagined reaching. If the idea of holding students to elite expectations feels inappropriate, this role is not for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction so students complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remainder of their time is reserved for life skills, self-directed projects, and meaningful personal development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than simple oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record establishes the benchmark: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, shaping culture, and guiding students through resistance, lack of focus, and uncertainty.
Your role is not instructional. AI manages the academic delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, mentor, and enforce the same rigorous standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish stretch goals. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning kickoffs that set a daily tone where mediocrity is unacceptable.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over hierarchy. You begin by mastering Alpha's system and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the person they trust enough to push them beyond self-imposed limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's continuity—the same students, year after year, maturing with you as their constant. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a means to career advancement. If your motivation for leaving your current role is the mission itself, not résumé enhancement, apply now.
What You Will Be Doing
Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.
Basic Requirements
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-5740-US-SantaBar-HighPerformanc
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction so students complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remainder of their time is reserved for life skills, self-directed projects, and meaningful personal development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than simple oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record establishes the benchmark: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, shaping culture, and guiding students through resistance, lack of focus, and uncertainty.
Your role is not instructional. AI manages the academic delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, mentor, and enforce the same rigorous standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions that identify obstacles and establish stretch goals. Another forty percent involves facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning kickoffs that set a daily tone where mediocrity is unacceptable.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over hierarchy. You begin by mastering Alpha's system and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the person they trust enough to push them beyond self-imposed limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's continuity—the same students, year after year, maturing with you as their constant. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults by May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the purpose, not a means to career advancement. If your motivation for leaving your current role is the mission itself, not résumé enhancement, apply now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish ambitious objectives, and ensure accountability
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on authentic examples from your own high-achievement background, and evaluating mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing cultural expectations each morning through focused kickoff sessions that reinforce high-performance norms across the campus
- Monitoring student progress continuously and adapting coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
- Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and their families through consistent high standards and documented motivation strategies
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments—Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
- Lecturing to large groups of 30 students (your work involves intensive coaching in small formats, not traditional classroom teaching)
- Supervising other staff or pursuing administrative advancement (this role centers on direct student impact, not organizational management)
- Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy (your schedule prioritizes students)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to identify what prevented 100%)
Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
- At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership roles where you measurably raised others' performance
- Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation support provided)
- Legal right to work in the United States
- Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition
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-5740-US-SantaBar-HighPerformanc
Salary : $150,000