Program Director, 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
• $150,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits.
• Relocation support available
  
  

The most supportive action you can take with a student who scored 99% is to inform them they haven't passed. If that statement causes discomfort, this role isn't for you. If you find yourself agreeing, read on.

Alpha students complete academics in two hours daily using self-directed AI-powered applications. There are no teachers. No lectures. No classroom-based subject instruction. This structure allows you to focus on what genuinely shifts student outcomes: facilitating high-impact workshops on public speaking, focus, and feedback; using live analytics to motivate students toward complete goal attainment; and coaching the Guides who support your work.

A typical morning may begin with a one-on-one Guide coaching conversation, analyzing performance metrics and pinpointing cohort gaps. By midday, you're facilitating a student workshop, executing a playbook activity centered on feedback exchange. Afternoons are reserved for motivation work: engaging individual students, identifying their drivers, and applying Alpha's incentive framework to re-engage a reluctant 7th grader. You manage your own cohort directly, ensuring you maintain the same competencies you're developing in others.

You've likely been misaligned in traditional education environments: excessively metrics-oriented, overly outcome-focused, too ready to question conventional approaches with students. Alpha may be the first environment where that profile is an asset. You'll begin coaching other Guides immediately, and as you produce measurable results at scale, your impact on campus-wide program standards increases.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops focused on life skills (public speaking, focus, feedback exchange) for K-8 (elementary and middle school) cohorts, executing Alpha's established playbook rather than creating original content
• Conducting motivation sessions that leverage student analytics and Alpha's incentive structure (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% student goal attainment
• Coaching Guides on program adherence and standards enforcement, ensuring each session yields concrete improvement actions
• Managing your own student cohort while simultaneously developing other Guides
• Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion rates, and Guide performance data weekly to identify underperformance early
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lectures or providing academic tutoring. Students complete academics through self-directed apps without direct adult instruction.
• Creating curriculum or developing original lesson plans. The playbook is established; execution fidelity is the performance standard, not creativity.
• Coaching Guides on instructional methods. Guides don't teach academics, so your coaching centers on energy, motivation, and accountability.
• Granting exceptions when a student achieves 99% rather than 100%. Maintaining the standard demonstrates your confidence in their capability.
• Serving as the unconditional empathy source every school employs. Students receive connection here, along with direct feedback and real accountability.
  
  

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 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-FortWort-ProgramDirecto