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

• On-campus placement 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 compensation, distributed weekly. Health benefits begin day one.
• Relocation assistance provided
  
  

The best support you can offer a student who achieved 99% is to tell them they fell short. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, read on.

Alpha students complete their academic coursework in two hours daily using self-directed, AI-driven applications. There are no teachers, no traditional lectures, and no classroom instruction of academic material. This structure liberates you to focus on work that genuinely alters student outcomes: facilitating high-impact workshops on communication, concentration, and constructive feedback; driving students toward complete goal attainment through live performance data; and developing the Guides who support you in this mission.

A typical morning begins with individual Guide coaching, analyzing performance metrics and pinpointing cohort gaps. By midday, you're delivering a structured workshop to students—perhaps executing a playbook module on feedback exchange. Afternoons transition to motivational work: engaging individual students, identifying their intrinsic drivers, and leveraging Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a reluctant middle schooler. You manage your own cohort throughout, keeping your coaching skills grounded in direct practice.

You've likely felt misaligned in traditional education settings: overly analytical, excessively outcome-oriented, too inclined to question conventional approaches to student development. Alpha may be where you finally belong. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as your results scale, your authority over campus-wide program standards expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating structured one-hour workshops on essential competencies (communication skills, concentration, feedback exchange) for elementary and middle school cohorts (K-8), adhering to Alpha's established framework rather than creating content independently
• Conducting motivation-focused sessions that utilize student data analytics and Alpha's reward mechanisms (campus currency, performance rankings) to achieve 100% goal attainment across your cohort
• Developing Guides through coaching focused on program adherence and standards maintenance, ensuring each session yields concrete performance enhancements
• Managing your own student cohort concurrently with Guide development responsibilities
• Monitoring student engagement metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide effectiveness indicators on a weekly basis to identify performance issues early
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Providing direct academic instruction or subject tutoring. Academic learning occurs independently through application-based systems without adult supervision.
• Creating original curriculum or developing individualized lesson content. Established playbooks define the work; success is measured by execution quality, not creative innovation.
• Coaching Guides on instructional methodology. Since Guides don't deliver traditional instruction, your coaching centers on engagement, motivation, and accountability practices.
• Accepting 99% performance as sufficient when 100% is the target. Maintaining standards demonstrates your confidence in student capability.
• Serving as the campus's primary empathy resource. Students receive genuine connection alongside candid feedback and meaningful accountability.
  
  

Performance Coach Key Responsibilities

Fulfill Alpha's three core commitments for every student in your cohort: genuine enthusiasm for school, learning velocity double that of conventional classrooms, and mastery of practical life competencies.

Basic Requirements

• Available for on-campus work at one of these Alpha locations: 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
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable domain
• Demonstrated history of managing a team of 5 or more adults, including responsibility for recruitment and performance-based dismissal decisions
• Hands-on experience working with children ages 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts
• Experience building, launching, or substantially expanding a program, team, business, school, or initiative from inception
• Documented use of data and performance metrics to establish weekly objectives and inform decisions, 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
• Experience coaching competitive sports, leading outdoor/experiential education programs, managing camps, or directing youth ministry at sufficient scale to require cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned from classroom teaching into program design or leadership roles in EdTech, tutoring enterprises, youth-focused nonprofits, or school support systems
• Early-career record of exceptional individual achievement—academic, athletic, or professional—prior to transitioning into leadership
• Conviction that traditional education models are fundamentally flawed and commitment to participating in systemic reform
  
  

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-Nashvill-PerformanceCoa.016