Program Director, Alpha

Overview

Alpha reimagines the school day around faster learning, stronger mentorship, and more time for students to build real‑world skills. This role supports that vision by providing high‑energy workshops, motivating students, and maintaining standards across a cohort of elementary and middle school learners.

• Atlanta, GA
• Oklahoma City, OK
• Tulsa, OK
• Austin, TX
• Keller (Fort Worth), TX
• The Woodlands (Houston), TX
• Relocation assistance available

W2 salary of $150,000 annually, paid on a weekly basis. Health benefits begin day one. The position is full‑time (40 hours per week) and requires entering into an independent contractor agreement with Crossover as a Contractor of Record. The hourly rate is $75 USD, equating to $150,000 USD per year assuming 50 weeks per year.

• Facilitating one‑hour live workshops focused on life competencies (public speaking, concentration, feedback exchange) for K–8 cohorts.
• Conducting motivational sessions using student data and Alpha’s reward mechanisms to achieve 100% goal attainment across your cohort.
• Developing Guides to maintain program consistency and standard enforcement, ensuring each coaching interaction yields specific improvement actions.
• Sustaining direct leadership of your own student cohort while building capacity in other Guides.
• Monitoring student satisfaction metrics, goal completion percentages, and Guide performance indicators on a weekly basis to identify deterioration early.

• Delivering lectures or providing academic tutoring to students.
• Creating curriculum or developing original lesson materials.
• Developing Guides on pedagogical methods.
• Creating accommodations when a student reaches 99% rather than 100%.
• Serving as the campus emotional safety net.

Execute Alpha’s three core commitments for every student in your cohort: they experience joy in learning, advance at twice the pace of conventional classrooms, and build authentic life competencies.

• Available to work on‑site at one of the listed locations (relocation assistance available).
• Bachelor’s degree in Education, Psychology, Business, or related discipline.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience in education, learning and development, coaching, youth leadership, or comparable domain.
• Demonstrated history of managing a team of 5 or more adults, including responsibility for hiring and performance‑related termination decisions.
• Hands‑on experience working with children ages 5–14 within educational or developmental contexts.
• Experience building, launching, or substantially scaling a program, team, business, educational institution, or initiative from inception.
• Documented use of data and performance metrics to establish weekly objectives and inform strategic decisions, beyond simple reporting.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States or Canada.

• Master’s degree in Education, Psychology, Organizational Leadership, or related area.
• Experience coaching athletics, leading outdoor or experiential education programs, managing camps, or directing youth ministry at a scale requiring cohort management and outcome measurement.
• Transitioned from classroom instruction to program development or operations roles in EdTech, tutoring enterprises, youth‑focused nonprofits, or school intervention systems.
• Early‑career pattern of exceptional individual achievement reflective of scholastic, athletic, or professional success.
• Conviction that the existing education system requires fundamental reform and personal commitment to contributing to that transformation.

Alpha hires teachers (Guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members. Alpha offers six‑figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience. The culture is fast‑moving, ambitious, and student focused, for people who want to improve the system, not maintain it.