Student Excellence 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
• Annual salary of $150,000, distributed weekly. Health benefits start on day one.
• Relocation assistance provided
  
  

You have excelled at the highest level in a fiercely competitive arena. Perhaps elite sports, a distinguished record at a top university, a role at a highly selective organization, or a business you launched and grew from the ground up. You understand what separates mere participation from true competition. Now consider channeling that same drive into a setting where K-12 students—many of whom have never encountered someone with your caliber of achievement—are pushed toward standards they never imagined reaching.

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1:1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academic work in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is devoted to life skills, passion projects, and meaningful personal development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than basic oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record models excellence: someone capable of reading dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.

Your role is not to instruct content—it is to coach, challenge, and uphold the same exacting standards you have applied to yourself. Approximately 80% of your time will be spent conducting direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching along with life-skills workshops. The remaining 20% involves setting the daily tone through purposeful kickoffs that build a culture intolerant of mediocrity.

The trajectory here emphasizes depth over hierarchy. You begin by mastering Alpha's system and earning student trust. Within a few months, you become the person they allow to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff is not a title change. It is witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September confidently address a room of adults in May.

If you have been seeking a way to apply your elite credentials toward something beyond personal advancement, apply now. If you require scripted curriculum, predictable classroom routines, or advancement into administration, this is not the right fit.

What You Will Be Doing

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies individual obstacles, establishes ambitious objectives, and ensures students remain accountable for execution
• Leading 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 campus-wide cultural expectations each morning via focused kickoffs that reinforce high-performance standards
• Cultivating trusted mentoring relationships with students and their families by maintaining high expectations, consistency, and documented motivation strategies
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Creating lesson plans, developing curriculum, or evaluating assignments. Alpha's academic system manages those functions independently.
• Delivering lectures to large groups of 30 students. Your focus is intensive coaching in smaller settings, not mass instruction.
• Supervising other employees or pursuing an administrative career path. This position centers on direct student influence, not organizational advancement.
• Attending lengthy faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy. Your schedule remains concentrated on student engagement.
• Compromising standards to meet performance targets. If a student achieves 99%, your task is to identify what prevented 100%.
  
  

Student Excellence Coach Key Responsibilities

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

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one demonstration 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-Dripping-StudentExcelle