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

• Campus-based role at an Alpha location: 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 with weekly pay. Health benefits begin day one.
• Relocation assistance provided
  
  

The kindest thing you can tell a child who scored 99% is that they haven't met the standard. If that idea makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, read on.

Alpha students complete their academic learning in two hours daily through AI-powered, self-directed applications. No traditional teachers. No lectures. No classroom-based content instruction. This model allows you to focus on what truly shifts outcomes: facilitating high-impact workshops on speaking, concentration, and critique; driving student achievement through live performance data; and developing the Guides who support the program alongside you.

A typical day could begin with a one-on-one Guide coaching conversation, analyzing metrics to pinpoint where a group is underperforming. Mid-morning, you're delivering a structured workshop to students—walking them through a playbook exercise on constructive critique. The afternoon brings motivational work: individual student check-ins to understand their drivers, then leveraging Alpha's systems to re-engage a hesitant middle schooler. You manage your own cohort directly, keeping your skills current while coaching others to do the same.

You've likely been the outlier in traditional education settings: overly analytical, excessively focused on outcomes, too ready to question orthodoxy around student development. Alpha may be the environment where you finally belong. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as your results scale, your authority over program quality across the campus expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the learner. Submit your application.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating structured one-hour life skills workshops (public speaking, concentration, constructive critique) for elementary and middle school groups, executing Alpha's playbook with fidelity rather than improvisation
• Conducting motivation interventions using performance analytics and Alpha's behavioral systems (campus currency, ranking boards) to achieve 100% goal attainment across your cohort
• Developing Guides through targeted coaching on program adherence and standards execution, ensuring each session yields concrete next steps
• Managing your own student cohort concurrently with Guide development responsibilities
• Monitoring student experience scores, completion metrics, and Guide effectiveness data on a weekly cadence to identify performance gaps early
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching or tutoring academic content to students. Academic learning happens through independent app-based work without adult instruction.
• Creating original curriculum or developing lesson materials. Execution fidelity to existing playbooks is the standard, not creative innovation.
• Developing Guides on instructional pedagogy. Since Guides don't deliver instruction, your coaching centers on motivation, energy management, and accountability practices.
• Accepting 99% performance as sufficient when the standard is 100%. Maintaining expectations is an expression of belief in student capability.
• Serving as the emotionally permissive adult on campus. Students receive both genuine connection and direct feedback paired with meaningful accountability.
  
  

Leadership Coach Key Responsibilities

Fulfill Alpha's three commitments for every student you support: cultivating genuine enthusiasm for school, accelerating learning to twice traditional classroom pace, and building practical competencies for life.

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 assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline
• 5 years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable domain
• Demonstrated history of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions
• Hands-on experience working with children ages 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts
• Experience building, launching, or substantially scaling a program, team, business, school, or initiative from inception
• Documented ability to use data and metrics for weekly goal-setting and decision-making, beyond simple 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
• Background coaching sports, leading outdoor or experiential education programs, managing camps, or directing youth ministry at scale with cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned out of classroom teaching to lead programs from operational or strategic roles: EdTech ventures, tutoring enterprises, youth-focused nonprofits, or school support teams
• Strong early-career personal achievement record—academic, athletic, or professional—prior to transitioning into leadership positions
• Conviction that existing education structures are failing students and personal commitment to systemic redesign
  
  

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-SugarLan-LeadershipCoac.061