Student Excellence Coach, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• On-site position at Alpha School campuses located in New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA
• Annual salary of $150,000, with weekly pay. Health benefits begin day one.
• Relocation assistance provided
  
  

You understand that refusing to lower expectations is the most compassionate act you can perform for a student. Your background includes competition, creation, or accomplishment at a level rarely witnessed firsthand: elite-level sports, graduation with honors from a top university, employment at a highly selective organization, or a company you launched independently. Picture channeling that discipline into a setting where K-12 students encounter, for the first time, an adult with your credentials who refuses to let them settle for less than their potential. If maintaining elite standards strikes you as unkind, this role is not for you.

Alpha employs AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction that enables students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remainder of their day is devoted to developing life skills, pursuing personal interests, and authentic personal development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal track record establishes the benchmark: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing cultural norms, and guiding students through resistance, distraction, and doubt.

Your responsibility is not instruction. It is to coach, challenge, and hold students to the same rigorous standard you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching that identifies obstacles and establishes ambitious targets. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement. The final twenty percent focuses on establishing daily expectations: purposeful morning sessions that cultivate a culture rejecting mediocrity.

Your trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. Initially, you'll master Alpha's methodology and earn students' trust. Within months, you become the adult they trust enough to push them beyond perceived limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.

If you've sought a way to leverage your elite credentials for impact beyond personal achievement, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify obstacles, establish ambitious targets, and ensure accountability for execution
• Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery by drawing on credible examples from your own elite background, followed by mastery assessment via Alpha's Test2Pass framework
• Establishing campus-wide cultural expectations each morning with focused kickoff sessions that reinforce high-performance standards
• Monitoring student advancement in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
• Cultivating trusted mentorship relationships 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 infrastructure manages instruction; you manage drive)
• Presenting to a full classroom of 30 students (your impact comes through high-touch small-group coaching, not large-group teaching)
• Supervising other employees or pursuing administrative advancement (this position centers on direct student impact, not organizational management)
• Attending faculty meetings or managing institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-focused)
• Compromising standards to achieve targets (if a student achieves 99%, your role is determining what prevented 100%)
  
  

Student Excellence Coach Key Responsibilities

Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation 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
• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in New York City, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Santa Barbara, CA (relocation support provided)
• 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-SanFranc-StudentExcelle.003