Student Success Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD

• $120,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly; health, dental, and vision coverage begins day one
• On-campus role at an Alpha K-8 location in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)
  
  

You will not teach. You will motivate.

The most meaningful support you can give a student who reached 99% of their target is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation unsettles you, this role is not the right fit. If it energizes you—because maintaining the standard is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capacity—then continue.

At Alpha, academic learning occurs through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No physical textbooks. Approximately 60% of your time is devoted to facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback practices. Roughly 30% of your time involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and guiding each one toward their weekly application goals. The remaining 10% centers on data analysis that informs the following week's coaching strategy. You will not follow rigid scripts; workshops serve as frameworks, and top performers in this position customize them and create new content when needs arise.

A successful semester means that at least 90% of students in your cohort achieve their weekly app targets, demonstrate quantifiable life-skill improvement on Test2Pass, and provide a rating of 4/5 or higher for their experience with you. Falling short on any of these three measures means falling short of the role's expectations. As you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, opportunities emerge to advance to Lead Guide—mentoring newer Guides while continuing to manage a cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead, where you oversee a school and manage parent relations.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, expect curriculum to be provided in full, or view warmth and rigor as incompatible, this position will not suit you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you would not let a student give up, or performing for rooms of 12-year-olds, the final interview stage is a full day on campus working directly with real Alpha students. If that prospect is what excites you most, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 groups covering public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange, and other enduring competencies, modifying the existing framework and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Delivering the Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who do not pass until they achieve mastery
• Adjusting your coaching approach across a broad age spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring high energy and physical activity to 8th graders needing direct conversation and accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort performance metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the upcoming week based on data insights
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering lessons at a whiteboard; academic content resides in the applications, not with you
• Creating an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and infuse it with your own energy and narrative style
• Simply monitoring students at computers; motivation in this context is active, personal, and persistent
• Working through bureaucratic approval processes to secure resources for students in need; if a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement immediately
• Evaluating homework, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the rest does not exist in this model
  
  

Student Success Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure that every student in your K-8 cohort achieves their weekly learning targets, masters each life skill, and finishes the year saying they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; La Jolla (San Diego), CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any subject
• At least 3 years working directly with K-8 students (classroom teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A specific example you can describe of motivating a K-8 student to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legal right to work in the US without visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward specific objectives
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to demanding standards is a consistent trait, not an adopted stance
• Storytelling and stage presence capable of commanding a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success in transforming disengaged or resistant students into active, invested participants
  
  

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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 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-5607-US-Nashvill-StudentSuccess.006