What are the responsibilities and job description for the High-Performance Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD position at Crossover?
You hold the view that the most compassionate act for a student is to maintain rigorous standards. Your background includes competition, creation, or accomplishment at a tier most people encounter only through reading: elite-level athletics, graduation with honors from a top university, employment at a highly selective institution, or a business you launched independently. Now consider channeling that rigor into a setting with K-12 students who have never had access to someone with your credentials, someone prepared to elevate them to benchmarks they did not believe attainable. If the idea of upholding elite standards for students strikes you as unkind, this role is not for you.
Alpha deploys AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remaining hours are allocated to life skills, independent projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They require a credible mentor whose personal track record establishes the expectation: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing culture, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your responsibility is not instruction. AI manages academic content delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, coach, and apply the same exacting standards you have applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies obstacles and establishes stretch goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills sessions designed for competency, not engagement. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning launch sessions that cultivate a campus culture in which mediocrity is unacceptable.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the individual they trust to push them beyond perceived limits. The return is not a title change. It is continuity: the same students, year over year, maturing with your steady support. It is observing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a composed presentation to adults in May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the objective, not a means to another career step. If your motivation for leaving your current role is the mission itself, not résumé enhancement, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
Deliver outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill competency at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Basic Requirements
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 $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-Seattle-HighPerformanc.006
Alpha deploys AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours per day. The remaining hours are allocated to life skills, independent projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They require a credible mentor whose personal track record establishes the expectation: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing culture, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.
Your responsibility is not instruction. AI manages academic content delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, coach, and apply the same exacting standards you have applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies obstacles and establishes stretch goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills sessions designed for competency, not engagement. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning launch sessions that cultivate a campus culture in which mediocrity is unacceptable.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the individual they trust to push them beyond perceived limits. The return is not a title change. It is continuity: the same students, year over year, maturing with your steady support. It is observing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a composed presentation to adults in May.
This position remains student-centered. Students are the objective, not a means to another career step. If your motivation for leaving your current role is the mission itself, not résumé enhancement, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching using Coachbot analytics and student data to identify barriers, establish ambitious targets, and maintain accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills sessions designed for competency mastery, drawing on credible narrative from your own high-level experience, and verifying mastery via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing cultural expectations each morning through intentional kickoffs that embed high-performance norms across campus
- Monitoring student advancement in real time and revising coaching approaches based on evidence, not intuition
- Developing trusted mentor relationships with students and their families through consistency, high expectations, and formalized motivation plans
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI academic platform manages instruction; you manage drive
- Presenting to a full classroom of 30 students (your work centers on intensive coaching in small settings, not large-group instruction)
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing an administrative career path (this position prioritizes direct student influence, not organizational advancement)
- Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional processes (your schedule remains student-focused)
- Compromising standards to meet performance indicators (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to identify what prevented 100%)
Deliver outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill competency at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, internationally recognized field (examples: medals in national or international competition, graduation with distinction from a top-tier university, employment at a highly selective firm or fellowship, training at an elite performing arts institution, or founding and growing a successful enterprise)
- At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably improved others' performance
- Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Orange County, CA; Palo Alto, CA; San Francisco, CA; South Bay, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Kirkland (Seattle), WA (relocation assistance provided)
- Legal authorization to work in the United States
- History in elite competitive athletics (varsity Division I, national team, or professional tier) with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability sectors such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Demonstrated youth development through mentoring outside academic environments (community groups, after-school initiatives, sports camps)
- Ease in presenting to and earning trust from high-expectation families investing in premium private education
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 $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-Seattle-HighPerformanc.006
Salary : $150,000