Startup Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• Located on-site in Austin, TX (relocation assistance available)
• Annual salary of $150,000, distributed weekly. Health benefits begin day one.
  
  

The greatest service you can offer a teenage entrepreneur is refusing to accept mediocrity. You understand that maintaining high expectations is not about applying pressure—it's about demonstrating belief in what the student can achieve. If this resonates with you, continue reading.

You will work with high school students who are building genuine companies with $1M growth potential. These are not academic exercises or mock scenarios. Approximately 60-65% of your time will be dedicated to one-on-one coaching: pinpointing where each founder encounters obstacles, determining the most impactful next step, and maintaining accountability to a defined action plan. The remaining 35-40% will be divided between overseeing academic performance and facilitating workshops designed to equip students with practical skills, not simply theoretical knowledge.

This position is not conventional teaching. You are accountable for comprehensive student outcomes: venture advancement, academic performance, and personal development simultaneously. Your coaching will be informed by dashboards, business progress reports, and academic metrics—not guesswork. When a student's grades begin to decline, you step in proactively. When a venture loses momentum, you identify the actual obstacle, not the convenient explanation.

You begin by understanding each student's business, recognizing their capabilities, and identifying where they struggle. Within several months, you become the advisor whose challenge they respect, because you have firsthand operational experience. The outcome is witnessing a 16-year-old arrive with a concept and depart with an operational business, the self-discipline to sustain it, and academic achievement that preserves all future opportunities.

If you have been seeking a position where your business background directly influences emerging founders, submit your application now. If you require a standardized syllabus, a conventional classroom environment, or a role where effort alone is sufficient, this is not the right fit.

What You Will Be Doing

• Providing one-on-one coaching to student founders on strategy, execution, and scaling—consuming approximately two-thirds of your weekly hours
• Analyzing student dashboards, venture updates, and academic metrics to assess progress and identify priority actions
• Tracking academic standing and addressing issues proactively when concentration or organizational skills weaken
• Designing and delivering workshops that produce tangible, applied-learning outcomes
• Facilitating stand-ups, debriefs, and group sessions that enforce accountability to individual commitments
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Conducting traditional lectures or adhering to a fixed curriculum (you enable hands-on learning, not conventional classroom teaching)
• Offering broad mentorship or inspirational guidance without concrete action commitments
• Handling student administrative tasks—calendar coordination, documentation, or registration processes
• Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy (your focus remains on direct student engagement)
  
  

Startup Coach Key Responsibilities

Guide student founders toward ventures with $1M potential while maintaining their academic progress.

Basic Requirements

• Available to work on-site at Alpha High School in Austin, TX (relocation assistance available)
• Minimum 2 years of experience coaching or developing others (team members, colleagues, or clients), including a concrete example of a coaching engagement and measurable results
• Professional background owning critical outcomes or performance metrics, with at least one example showing $500,000 in annual revenue influence
• Minimum 1 year working with young people (students, junior professionals, or youth program participants) on initiatives, educational objectives, or entrepreneurial efforts
• Authorized to work legally in the United States
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience founding, co-founding, or running a startup or early-stage venture
• Background as a Chief of Staff, program manager, or high-impact individual contributor with full ownership of results
• Proficiency with AI tools (such as ChatGPT, Copilot) to enhance coaching preparation, data analysis, or correspondence
• Experience in K-12 education, EdTech, or initiatives combining academics with practical application (startup accelerators, project-based curricula, entrepreneurship education)
  
  

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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-5757-US-Houston-StartupCoach