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
• $150,000 annual salary, paid weekly. Health benefits from day one.
• Support for relocation provided
  
  

You have excelled at the highest level in a demanding, competitive arena—whether elite sports, a top university where you graduated with honors, a highly selective organization, or a business you launched and grew independently. You understand what separates mere participation from real competition. Consider applying that rigor in a setting with K-12 students who have never had access to someone with your credentials, someone prepared to elevate their standards to levels they never imagined possible.

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1:1 instruction, enabling students to complete their core academic work in roughly two hours each day. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and substantive personal development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose accomplishments establish the benchmark—someone capable of assessing group dynamics, shaping culture, and guiding students through resistance, distraction, and doubt.

This position does not involve traditional teaching; instead, you will coach, challenge, and uphold the same exacting standards you have applied to yourself. Approximately 80% of your time will be devoted to direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching alongside life-skills workshops. The remaining 20% is invested in setting each day's tone through purposeful kickoffs that cultivate a culture where mediocrity is unacceptable.

This trajectory is not designed around advancing into management. It prioritizes depth. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they rely on to push them beyond self-imposed limits. The return is not a title. It is witnessing a student who struggled with eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to a room of adults by May.

If you are seeking a role where your elite background produces impact beyond your personal résumé, apply now. If you require a scripted curriculum, predictable classroom routines, or a trajectory toward administrative leadership, this is not the right fit.

What You Will Be Doing

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions to identify individual obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and maintain accountability for student execution
• Leading structured life-skills workshops designed for skill acquisition rather than entertainment, drawing on authentic examples from your own high-level achievements
• Evaluating student proficiency using platforms such as Test2Pass and monitoring progress through Coachbot analytics to refine coaching approaches dynamically
• Establishing cultural expectations each morning via focused kickoffs that embed high-performance standards campus-wide
• Cultivating trusted mentor relationships with students and families by maintaining high expectations, reliability, and formalized 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 groups of 30 students. Your focus is intensive coaching in intimate settings, not mass instruction.
• Supervising other staff or pursuing advancement through administrative channels. This role centers on direct student outcomes, not organizational management.
• Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy. Your schedule remains concentrated on student interaction.
• Compromising standards to satisfy performance indicators. When a student reaches 99%, your role is to identify what prevented 100%.
  
  

Student Excellence Coach Key Responsibilities

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

Basic Requirements

• Bachelor's degree
• At least one demonstration of exceptional accomplishment in a highly selective, internationally recognized field (examples: medals from national or international competitions, top-tier university attended with distinction, employment at a highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts training, or founding and growing a successful venture)
• Minimum 3 years of experience in student coaching, youth mentoring, athletic coaching, or leadership positions where you demonstrably improved others' performance
• Availability 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
• Authorization to work legally in the United States
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• History in elite competitive athletics (Division 1 varsity, national team representation, or professional competition) combined with coaching or mentoring experience for younger athletes
• Professional background in high-accountability fields such as management consulting, investment banking, or military leadership
• Demonstrated youth development success through mentoring outside traditional academic contexts (community organizations, after-school initiatives, sports camps)
• Confidence engaging and earning trust from high-expectation families investing in premium private education
  
  

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-Alexandr-StudentExcelle.001