Program Director, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• On-site position 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
• $150,000 annual W2 salary, distributed weekly. Health benefits begin on day one.
• Relocation assistance provided
  
  

The most valuable thing you can tell a student who scored 99% is that they haven't met the standard. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, continue reading.

Alpha students complete their academic learning in two hours daily through AI-powered, self-directed applications. There are no teachers, no lectures, no traditional classroom instruction. This structure allows you to focus on what genuinely transforms their future: facilitating high-impact workshops on public speaking, concentration, and feedback; using live data analytics to ensure every student achieves their learning targets; and developing the Guides who support you in this mission.

A typical morning may begin with a one-on-one Guide coaching session, analyzing performance metrics and pinpointing where a cohort is struggling. By midday, you're facilitating a live student workshop, executing a structured activity on feedback exchange. Afternoons transition to motivational work: engaging with individual students, discovering their intrinsic drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a struggling 7th grader. You maintain direct responsibility for your own cohort, ensuring you remain proficient in the same competencies you're coaching others to master.

You've likely been the outlier in education: excessively metrics-oriented, overly outcome-focused, too ready to question conventional approaches to student development. Alpha may be the first environment that truly accommodates that perspective. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable outcomes at scale, your authority over campus-wide program standards expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops focused on life competencies (public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange) for K-8 cohorts, executing Alpha's established playbook without improvisation
• Conducting motivation sessions leveraging student performance data and Alpha's incentive architecture (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal attainment
• Developing Guides in program adherence and standards enforcement, ensuring each coaching interaction yields concrete improvement steps
• Overseeing 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

• Delivering lectures or providing academic tutoring. Students master content through self-directed applications without direct adult instruction.
• Creating original curriculum or developing lesson plans independently. The playbook is established; success is measured by execution fidelity, not creative innovation.
• Training Guides on instructional pedagogy. Since Guides don't teach traditional content, your coaching centers on energy management, motivation, and accountability systems.
• Accepting 99% performance when the standard is 100%. Maintaining this boundary demonstrates your belief in their capability to reach the full standard.
• Serving as the default source of unconditional emotional support. Students receive genuine connection alongside honest feedback and meaningful consequences.
  
  

Program Director Key Responsibilities

Execute Alpha's three core commitments for every student in your cohort: they develop genuine enthusiasm for school, progress at twice the rate of traditional classroom environments, and build authentic life competencies.

Basic Requirements

• Available 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 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 managing a team of 5 or more adults, including responsibility for hiring and performance-based termination decisions
• Hands-on experience working with children aged 5-14 in educational or developmental contexts
• Established, launched, or substantially scaled a program, team, business, school, or initiative from inception
• Documented use of data and 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 discipline
• Experience coaching athletics, leading wilderness or experiential programs, directing camps, or managing youth ministry at sufficient scale to require cohort management and outcome measurement
• Transitioned from classroom teaching to program development or operations: EdTech, tutoring enterprises, youth nonprofits, or school intervention initiatives
• Early-career record of exceptional individual performance — academic, athletic, or professional — prior to entering leadership roles
• Conviction that the existing education system requires fundamental restructuring and personal commitment to that transformation
  
  

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-Atlanta-ProgramDirecto.004