What are the responsibilities and job description for the Performance Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD position at Crossover?
The most compassionate act you can perform for a student is to hold the line on excellence. Your background includes competition, creation, or accomplishment at a level that most encounter only in stories: elite competitive sports, graduation with honors from a top-ranked institution, selection into a highly competitive organization, or launching a business from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that drive into a setting with K-12 students who have never encountered someone like you—someone prepared to hold them to standards they never imagined reaching. If maintaining elite expectations feels too demanding, this isn't the role for you.
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, enabling students to complete their core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remainder of their day is devoted to life skills, projects tied to their passions, and authentic personal development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record defines what's possible: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them past resistance, distraction, and internal doubt.
Your role is not to teach. AI manages instructional delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, guide, and enforce the same rigorous standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions where you identify obstacles and establish stretch goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for skill mastery rather than engagement alone. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning sessions that set daily expectations and cultivate a culture intolerant of mediocrity.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. Initially, you'll master Alpha's methodology and earn student trust. Within a few months, you become the person students allow to push them beyond self-imposed limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's the same cohort, year over year, maturing with your guidance. It's witnessing the student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to adults in May.
This position remains centered on students. They are the purpose, not a means to career progression. If your motivation for leaving your current role is the mission rather than resume enhancement, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Basic Requirements
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-5740-US-Greenwic-PerformanceCoa
Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, enabling students to complete their core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remainder of their day is devoted to life skills, projects tied to their passions, and authentic personal development. At Alpha's most demanding campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record defines what's possible: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them past resistance, distraction, and internal doubt.
Your role is not to teach. AI manages instructional delivery. Your responsibility is to inspire, guide, and enforce the same rigorous standards you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions where you identify obstacles and establish stretch goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for skill mastery rather than engagement alone. The final twenty percent is dedicated to morning sessions that set daily expectations and cultivate a culture intolerant of mediocrity.
The trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. Initially, you'll master Alpha's methodology and earn student trust. Within a few months, you become the person students allow to push them beyond self-imposed limits. The payoff isn't a title change. It's the same cohort, year over year, maturing with your guidance. It's witnessing the student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a poised presentation to adults in May.
This position remains centered on students. They are the purpose, not a means to career progression. If your motivation for leaving your current role is the mission rather than resume enhancement, submit your application now.
What You Will Be Doing
- Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish stretch goals, and ensure student accountability for execution
- Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on credible examples from your own elite achievements, then evaluating mastery using Alpha's Test2Pass framework
- Establishing campus-wide cultural expectations each morning through focused kickoff sessions that reinforce high-performance norms
- Monitoring student performance in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on evidence rather than intuition
- Developing trusted mentoring relationships with students and their families through consistent high standards and documented motivational strategies
- Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
- Presenting to a full classroom of 30 students (your impact comes through high-touch coaching in smaller settings, not large-group instruction)
- Supervising other personnel or pursuing administrative advancement (this position prioritizes direct student outcomes, not organizational management)
- Attending faculty meetings or managing institutional processes (your schedule remains student-centered)
- Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student achieves 99%, your task is to uncover what prevented 100%)
Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most rigorous campuses.
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's degree
- At least one documented instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized arena (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and scaling a successful venture)
- At least 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably elevated others' performance
- Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Santa Barbara, CA; Santa Monica, CA; San Francisco, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boston, MA; New York City, NY; or Seattle, WA (relocation support provided)
- Legal right to work in the United States
- Background in elite competitive athletics (varsity D1, national team, or professional level) with experience coaching or mentoring younger athletes
- Experience in high-accountability environments like management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
- Track record of youth development through mentoring in non-academic settings (community organizations, after-school programs, sports camps)
- Comfort presenting to and building trust with high-expectation families paying premium private school tuition
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-5740-US-Greenwic-PerformanceCoa
Salary : $150,000