Career Coach, Alpha - $100,000/year USD

The most valuable thing you can offer a student who reaches 99% of their weekly target is to insist they finish. Not out of indifference, but because you know they're capable of completing it—and that lowering the standard is the true failure.

You are not a classroom teacher. At Alpha, students master academic content through AI-driven adaptive learning applications. No traditional lectures. No printed textbooks. No instruction at the whiteboard. Motivation and essential life skills—the two elements conventional schools typically relegate to the sidelines—become your entire focus here.

Imagine a typical Tuesday. You spend half the day facilitating one-hour workshops for a K-8 group, covering topics like public speaking, maintaining focus, and exchanging constructive feedback. The remaining half is devoted to working with these same students individually or in small groups, reviewing their Coachbot data, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app targets—leveraging school currency, leaderboards, and the trust you've established to overcome obstacles.

Your quarterly performance hinges on three metrics: all students in your cohort complete their weekly app goals, all students pass the Test2Pass mastery verification for each workshop, and 90% or higher report that they love you. Fall short on any one of these, and you've missed the mark.

The reward comes the day a student who insisted in September that they were terrible at math asks you to increase their goal.

This is a full-time, on-site position at one of Alpha's campuses. We hire nationally, so job listings may appear in nearby cities that do not yet have a campus.

Current openings at this salary level are in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; and Park City, UT.

If you're interested in a different Alpha campus, submit your application anyway and indicate your preferred location—we'll review you for the corresponding opening.

If you've coached youth sports, managed a cabin at summer camp, or tutored a child who wanted to give up, the final step before receiving an offer is spending a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that day is what excites you most, apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 groups covering public speaking, focus, and the exchange of constructive feedback
• Conducting daily one-on-one and small-group motivation sessions designed to drive every student to 100% of their weekly app targets, utilizing Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards)
• Delivering the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then providing additional coaching to any student who does not pass until mastery is achieved
• Modifying the workshop playbook and creating new sessions when you identify a need, ensuring the same content resonates with both kindergarteners and eighth graders
• Serving as both the adult who maintains the standard and the adult your students willingly confide in

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction at a whiteboard, creating math and reading lesson plans, or grading assignments; academic teaching is handled by the apps
• Conducting standardized test preparation or being held accountable for class-wide test scores
• Managing parent conferences, emails, and concerns; campus leadership handles all parent communication
• Controlling behavior in groups of 30 students; cohorts are small and behavioral work here is one-on-one coaching
• Passively monitoring children at computers; motivation here is hands-on and interpersonal

Career Coach Key Responsibilities

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

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; or Park City, UT - relocation assistance available
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom instruction, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program facilitation
• Comfortable allowing adaptive learning software to handle academic instruction while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
• A documented history of high achievement—academic, athletic, or professional—that has made upholding rigorous standards a natural practice rather than an assumed role
• Command of a room sufficient to engage a group of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Youth sports coaching, debate, theater, camp leadership, or after-school program experience where you were directly responsible for students achieving a defined objective
• Background teaching social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curriculum
• A specific student you can identify who transitioned from disengaged or resistant to fully invested, along with the precise action you took
• Regular use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real-world skills.

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

A culture built for builders: Alpha is fast-moving, ambitious, and student focused. It’s for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits ( https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/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-Albuquer-CareerCoach.017