Learning and Development Manager, 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
• $150,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits.
• Relocation support available
  
  

The most supportive action you can take for a child who achieved 99% is to inform them they fell short. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, this role is not for you. If it resonates, continue reading.

At Alpha, students complete their academic learning in two hours daily using self-directed, AI-driven applications. No traditional teachers. No lectures. No classroom-based content delivery. This structure allows you to focus on work that genuinely shifts outcomes: facilitating high-impact workshops on public speaking, concentration, and feedback; driving students toward full goal attainment using live analytics; and developing the Guides who work with you.

A typical morning may begin with coaching a Guide one-on-one, analyzing performance data and pinpointing where a cohort is struggling. By midday you're facilitating a live student workshop, executing a playbook exercise on feedback skills. Afternoons transition to motivation work: engaging individual students, understanding their motivations, and applying Alpha's incentive structure to re-engage a reluctant 7th grader. You manage your own cohort directly, keeping your skills aligned with what you're coaching others to build.

You've likely been the outlier in education: overly analytical, excessively results-oriented, too ready to question conventional approaches to working with children. Alpha may be the first environment where you truly belong. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable outcomes, your impact on 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 rather than creating content independently
• Conducting motivation sessions using student data and Alpha's incentive framework (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal attainment
• Developing Guides on program adherence and standards maintenance, with each session generating concrete improvement steps
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously training other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide performance indicators weekly to identify underperformance early
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures or providing academic tutoring to students. Students progress through self-directed apps independently.
• Creating curriculum or developing original lesson plans. The playbook is established; the priority is execution fidelity, not creativity.
• Training Guides on instructional methods. Guides don't instruct, so you're developing their energy, motivation, and accountability skills instead.
• Granting exceptions when a student reaches 99% rather than 100%. Maintaining the standard demonstrates your belief in their capability to achieve it.
• Serving as the "empathy champion" common in traditional schools. Students receive connection here, alongside honest feedback and meaningful consequences.
  
  

Learning And Development Manager 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 (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-FortWort-LearningandDev.054