Performance Coach, 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
• Park City (Salt Lake City), UT
• Toronto, Canada
• Relocation support available
  
  

The most supportive action you can take for a student who achieved 99% is informing them they fell short. If that statement causes you to recoil, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, continue reading.

Alpha students complete academic learning in two hours daily via self-directed AI-powered applications. No instructors. No lectures. No management of subject-based instruction. This structure allows you to focus on work that genuinely alters student outcomes: facilitating high-energy sessions on public speaking, concentration, and feedback culture; driving students toward complete goal achievement through live analytics; and developing the Guides working beside you.

A typical morning begins with a one-on-one Guide coaching conversation, examining performance metrics and pinpointing where a cohort is underperforming. By midday you're facilitating a student workshop, executing a structured activity on feedback exchange. Afternoons transition to motivation work: engaging individual students, uncovering their intrinsic drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a reluctant 7th grader. You maintain direct responsibility for your own cohort, ensuring you remain proficient in the competencies you're teaching others to master.

You've likely been the outlier in educational environments: excessively metric-oriented, excessively outcome-focused, excessively willing to question conventional approaches with students. Alpha may be the first setting where you truly belong. You'll develop other Guides from the start, and as you demonstrate scalable impact, your authority over campus-wide program standards expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour live sessions on essential skills (public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange) for K-8 (elementary and middle school) groups, executing Alpha's structured playbook rather than creating content independently
• Conducting motivation interventions using student data and Alpha's reward mechanisms (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal attainment
• Developing Guides on playbook adherence and standards maintenance, with each coaching interaction generating concrete performance actions
• Carrying your own student cohort while simultaneously developing other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide performance indicators weekly to identify underperformance before it escalates
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching or tutoring students in academic content. Students progress through self-directed applications without adult supervision in the learning space.
• Creating curriculum or developing original lesson frameworks. The playbook is established; success depends on faithful execution, not creative innovation.
• Coaching Guides on instructional methods. Guides don't instruct, so you're developing their energy, motivation approach, and accountability systems instead.
• Accepting 99% when the standard is 100%. Maintaining rigor demonstrates your confidence in their capability to reach the target.
• Serving as the emotional safety net every school maintains. Students receive genuine connection here, alongside direct feedback and meaningful accountability.
  
  

Performance Coach Key Responsibilities

Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every student in your cohort: they experience genuine enthusiasm for school, progress at twice the rate of conventional classrooms, and acquire practical life competencies.

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; Park City (Salt Lake City), UT; or Toronto, Canada (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-SaltLake-PerformanceCoa.041