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

• $120,000/year W2 salary paid weekly; health, dental, and vision benefits begin on day one
• On-site at an Alpha K-8 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 assistance available)
  
  

You are not teaching content. You are building drive.

The kindest thing you can do for a student who reached 99% of their target is to say it is not finished. If that principle feels too rigid, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's capacity, read on.

At Alpha, students complete their academic work through AI-powered applications. No traditional lectures. No physical textbooks. Approximately 60% of your time will be spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving constructive feedback. Another 30% of your time involves meeting with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward their weekly application goals. The remaining 10% is dedicated to reviewing data and translating those insights into the following week's coaching strategy. You will not be following a rigid script; workshops provide a framework, and the most effective Guides customize them and create new sessions when they identify a need.

A successful semester means at least 90% of students in your cohort achieve their weekly app goals, demonstrate measurable improvement in life skills on Test2Pass, and rate their experience with you at 4/5 or higher. Falling short on any of these three metrics means the role has not been fulfilled. Once you demonstrate your ability to uphold these standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide—where you mentor newer Guides while continuing to lead a cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead, where you manage an entire school and oversee parent engagement.

If you prefer traditional classroom teaching, need a predefined curriculum, or think warmth and rigor cannot coexist, this position is not the right fit. If you have worked as an athletic coach, a camp counselor, a tutor who would not let a student give up, or a performer capable of commanding the attention of 12-year-olds, the final step before an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect excites you most, submit your application today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts covering topics such as public speaking, focus, and feedback exchange, while customizing the framework and creating new sessions when you identify gaps
• Conducting daily individual and small-group sessions designed to motivate every student toward their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your personal connection with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill and coaching students who do not initially pass until mastery is achieved
• Adjusting your coaching methods 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 data in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are falling behind, and modifying your coaching tactics for the next week based on data-driven insights
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lectures; academic content is embedded in the applications, not in your instruction
• Creating an entire curriculum from scratch; you begin with an established playbook and infuse it with your own presence and narrative skills
• Passively monitoring students on computers; motivation in this role is hands-on, personal, and persistent
• Working through bureaucratic processes to secure resources for students in need; if a student requires additional coaching time, you decide and implement the same day
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or managing parent communications; Campus Leads handle parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks do not exist in this model
  
  

Student Success Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort reaches their weekly learning targets, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year expressing genuine enthusiasm for their experience with you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site 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 assistance available)
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership)
• A concrete example you can share of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Willingness to allow AI to deliver instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Legal authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, theater, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward measurable outcomes
• Personal record of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), demonstrating that holding others to demanding standards is a consistent behavior, not an adopted stance
• Storytelling ability and stage presence capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Demonstrated success in transforming disengaged or reluctant students into active, participating learners
  
  

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-BocaRato-StudentSuccess