Youth Development Manager, Alpha - $150,000/year USD

• On-site at an Alpha campus: Atlanta, GA
• Oklahoma City, OK
• Tulsa, OK
• Austin, TX
• Keller (Fort Worth), TX
• The Woodlands (Houston), TX
• $150,000/year W2 salary, paid weekly. Day-one health benefits.
• Relocation support available
  
  

If a child scores 99%, the most impactful response is to tell them they fell short. If that statement makes you uncomfortable, this role isn't for you. If it resonates, read on.

Alpha students complete their academic work in two hours daily via self-guided AI-powered applications. There are no teachers, no lectures, no traditional classroom instruction. This model frees you to focus on what genuinely shifts outcomes: facilitating high-energy workshops on public speaking, focus, and feedback; driving students toward every learning milestone using live analytics; and developing the Guides who support your work.

A typical morning might involve a coaching conversation with a Guide, examining performance metrics to pinpoint where a cohort is underperforming. By midday, you're running a structured workshop with students—executing a playbook exercise on feedback dynamics. Afternoons often shift to motivation work: engaging with individual students, discovering their drivers, and leveraging Alpha's incentive structure to re-engage a reluctant middle schooler. You maintain your own cohort throughout, ensuring you remain practiced in the competencies you're teaching others.

You've likely been out of step in traditional education environments: overly analytical, excessively results-oriented, too ready to question standard practices around student development. Alpha may be the first environment that aligns. You'll begin coaching Guides immediately, and as you generate measurable outcomes at scale, your authority over campus-wide program standards expands.

Uphold the standard. Transform the student. Apply now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour live workshops focused on life skills (public speaking, focus, feedback dynamics) for K-8 cohorts, executing Alpha's established playbook rather than creating new content
• Conducting motivation sessions that leverage student analytics and Alpha's incentive architecture (school currency, leaderboards) to achieve 100% goal attainment across your cohort
• Developing Guides through targeted coaching on program adherence and standards maintenance, ensuring each session yields concrete improvement steps
• Managing your own student cohort concurrently while advancing Guide capabilities
• Monitoring student satisfaction scores, goal completion data, and Guide performance indicators on a weekly basis to identify underperformance early
  
  

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Lecturing or providing academic tutoring. Students progress through self-directed applications without direct adult instruction on content.
• Creating curriculum or developing original lesson plans. The playbook is established; success is measured by execution fidelity, not creative innovation.
• Coaching Guides on instructional methodology. Since Guides don't teach traditional subjects, your focus is on energy management, motivation techniques, and accountability systems.
• Accepting 99% as sufficient when 100% is the standard. Maintaining the threshold demonstrates your belief in their capacity to reach it.
• Serving as the campus's emotional safety net. Students receive genuine connection alongside honest feedback and meaningful consequences.
  
  

Youth Development Manager Key Responsibilities

Fulfill Alpha's three commitments to every student in your cohort: they develop genuine enthusiasm for school, learn at twice the pace of traditional classrooms, and acquire authentic life skills.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-campus in Atlanta, GA; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Austin, TX; Keller (Fort Worth), TX; The Woodlands (Houston), TX (relocation support provided)
• Bachelor's degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or a related field
• 5 years of experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or a comparable field
• Track record of leading a team of 5 or more adults, including hiring and making performance-based termination decisions
• Direct experience working with kids aged 5-14 in an educational or developmental setting
• Built, launched, or significantly grew a program, team, business, school, or initiative from the ground up
• Proven use of data and metrics to set weekly goals and drive decisions, not just report results
• Legally authorized to work in the United States or Canada
  
  

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Master's degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or a related field
• Coached athletics, led wilderness or experiential programs, directed camps, or ran youth ministry at a scale that required running cohorts and measuring outcomes
• Left classroom teaching to build or run programs from a different seat: EdTech, tutoring businesses, youth nonprofits, or school intervention teams
• Early-career track record of high personal performance — academic, athletic, or professional — before moving into leadership
• Belief that the current education system is broken and personal investment in rebuilding it
  
  

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-4844-US-Charlott-YouthDevelopme3