Strategic Performance Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• On-site at Alpha School locations: New York City, NY
• Orange County (Lake Forest), CA
• San Francisco, CA
• Santa Barbara, CA
• $150,000 annual salary, disbursed weekly. Full health benefits from day one.
• Relocation assistance provided
  
  

You've excelled at the highest levels of a ruthlessly competitive domain. Perhaps elite sports, a distinguished degree from a top university, a role at a highly selective organization, or a business you launched and grew yourself. You understand the gap between participation and genuine performance. Picture channeling that drive into a classroom of K-12 students who've never encountered someone with your credentials, someone willing to hold them to standards they never imagined reaching.

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1:1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remainder of the day is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments embody excellence: someone capable of reading student dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.

Your role is not instruction—it's coaching, challenging, and maintaining the same exacting standards you've applied to your own performance. You'll dedicate 80% of your time to direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching alongside life-skills workshops. The remaining 20% involves setting each day's expectations: purposeful morning sessions that cultivate a culture where mediocrity has no place.

The trajectory here emphasizes mastery over management. You begin by internalizing Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person students allow to push them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't organizational advancement. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.

If you're seeking to make your elite achievements matter beyond personal accolades, apply now. If you require rigid curriculum structure, conventional classroom dynamics, or a pathway to administrative titles, this isn't the right fit.

What You Will Be Doing

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies individual obstacles, establishes ambitious targets, and ensures students follow through on commitments
• Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement, drawing on authentic stories from your own high-achievement background
• Evaluating student mastery using platforms like Test2Pass and monitoring progress through Coachbot analytics to refine coaching approaches dynamically
• Establishing the campus cultural standard each morning with focused kickoffs that communicate and reinforce high-performance expectations
• Cultivating trusted mentorship with students and families through consistent high standards and documented motivation strategies
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Creating lesson plans, developing curriculum, or evaluating assignments. Alpha's academic framework operates independently.
• Delivering lectures to large classes of 30 students. Your focus is intensive coaching with individuals and small groups, not mass instruction.
• Supervising other personnel or pursuing administrative advancement. This position centers on direct student influence, not organizational structure.
• Attending traditional faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy. Your schedule remains concentrated on student interaction.
• Compromising standards to achieve targets. If a student reaches 99%, your task is identifying what prevented 100%.
  
  

Strategic Performance Coach Key Responsibilities

Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill achievement at Alpha's most demanding campuses.

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (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 roles where you measurably raised others' performance
• Willingness to work in-person at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; Orange County (Lake Forest), CA; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA
• Legal right to work in the United States
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• 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
  
  

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-5740-US-Brownsvi-StrategicPerfo