Associate, Alpha

• $100,000 annual W2 salary paid weekly, with health, dental, and vision coverage starting day one
• On-site position at an Alpha K-8 campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Denver, CO; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston (Central, South, or The Woodlands), TX; Park City, UT (Salt Lake City area) — relocation assistance available

This role is not about teaching. It is about motivation.

The most meaningful thing you can do for a student who reaches 99% of their goal is to refuse to accept it as complete. If that expectation troubles you, this role is not for you. If it energizes you because maintaining high standards demonstrates your belief in a student's ability to succeed, continue reading.

At Alpha, students complete their academic work through AI-driven applications. No lectures. No textbooks. Half of your day is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and the art of giving and receiving constructive feedback. The other half involves working with students individually or in small groups, analyzing their progress via Coachbot analytics, and driving each one to complete 100% of their weekly app objectives. You will not follow a rigid script — workshops provide a framework, but those who excel in this position customize them and create new content when needed.

A successful quarter means every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for all life-skills workshops, and 90%+ report that they love you. Falling short on any of these three measures means falling short of the role. In your first year, you will master the existing playbook; as you demonstrate your ability to uphold standards, you can advance to Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to work directly with students.

If you prefer traditional teaching methods, want pre-packaged curriculum, or believe warmth and rigor cannot coexist, this position is not suitable. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring students who wanted to quit, or performing for groups of young children, the final step before receiving 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 public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need
• Conducting daily individual and small-group motivation sessions that drive every student to complete 100% of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and your relationship with each student to overcome resistance
• Administering Test2Pass (Alpha's mastery-based assessment) for each life skill, then coaching 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
• Serving as the adult who maintains standards and the adult students trust; warmth creates the foundation for challenge, and challenge demonstrates your confidence in their potential

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction at a whiteboard; academic content is embedded in the apps, not in your teaching
• Creating curriculum from the ground up; you animate an established playbook with energy and narrative
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation in this role is active, individualized, and persistent
• Reducing a weekly goal to make it easier for a student to achieve; when a student falls behind, the solution involves supporting the student, not adjusting the target
• Grading assignments, conducting standardized test preparation, or handling parent communications; Campus Leads manage parent interactions, and the other tasks do not exist in this environment

Associate Key Responsibilities

Guarantee that every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning objectives, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work in-person at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale (Phoenix), AZ; Denver, CO; Oklahoma City, OK; Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Austin, TX; Brownsville, TX; Fort Worth, TX; Houston, TX (Central, South, or The Woodlands); Park City, UT — relocation assistance available
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• Minimum 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 describe of motivating a K-8 student toward a challenging goal: the objective, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with allowing AI to manage instructional content while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills coaching
• Regular use of generative AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude)
• Legal authorization to work in the US without visa sponsorship (or in Canada for the Toronto campus)

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth athletics coaching, debate, camp leadership, drama, or after-school programs where you held direct responsibility for motivating children toward defined objectives
• Personal record of significant achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), indicating that holding others to demanding standards is intrinsic, not performative
• Storytelling ability and stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating your volume
• Demonstrated success converting disengaged or reluctant students into engaged 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 $50 USD/hour, which equates to $100,000 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-4415-US-Oklahoma-Associate1.003