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

• On-site at an Alpha campus: Denver, CO
• 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/year W2 salary, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits.
• Relocation support available
  
  

Telling a kid who scored 99% that they didn't pass might be the most supportive thing you can do. If that idea made you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonated, read on.

Alpha's model frees you from traditional teaching. Students complete their academics in two hours daily using self-guided, AI-powered applications—no teachers, no lectures, no managing classroom subject matter. This allows you to focus on what truly shifts trajectories: delivering high-energy workshops on public speaking, focus, and feedback; driving students toward every learning target with real-time data; and mentoring the Guides who work beside you.

A typical morning might begin with a one-on-one Guide coaching session, analyzing performance metrics and pinpointing where a cohort is slipping. By midday, you're facilitating a live student workshop, executing a playbook exercise on feedback exchange. Afternoons are reserved for motivation work: engaging individual students, uncovering what motivates them, and leveraging Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a hesitant 7th grader. You manage your own cohort directly, ensuring you maintain the same competencies you're developing in others.

You've likely felt out of place in traditional education: overly analytical, excessively outcome-oriented, too inclined to question conventional wisdom about student development. Alpha may be the first environment that truly aligns with your approach. You'll mentor other Guides immediately, and as you scale results, your impact on campus-wide program excellence 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 mechanisms (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal attainment
• Mentoring Guides on program adherence and standards execution, ensuring every session yields concrete improvement steps
• Managing your own student cohort while cultivating other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance data weekly to identify underperformance early
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Lecturing or tutoring students on academic content. Students progress through self-guided apps without direct adult instruction.
• Creating curriculum or developing lesson plans independently. The playbook is established; success depends on execution fidelity, not creativity.
• Coaching Guides on instructional methods. Guides don't instruct, so you're developing energy, motivation, and accountability skills instead.
• Granting exceptions when a student achieves 99% instead of 100%. Maintaining standards demonstrates your belief in their full capability.
• Serving as the default source of unconditional empathy. Students receive genuine connection here, alongside honest feedback and meaningful consequences.
  
  

Program Director Key Responsibilities

Deliver Alpha's three promises 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 Denver, CO; 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-Austin-ProgramDirecto.014