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Performance Coach, Alpha - $150,000​/year USD

Job in New York, New York County, New York, 10261, USA
Listing for: Crossover
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-18
Job specializations:
  • Education / Teaching
    Career & Life Skills Coaching, Youth Development, Sports / Activity Coach
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 USD Yearly USD 150000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: New York

You understand that true care means holding students to the highest standard, not lowering expectations. Your background includes competition, achievement, or building something at a level most only observe from a distance: elite-level sports, graduating with distinction from a highly selective university, working at a top-tier firm, or launching a venture from the ground up. Now imagine channeling that intensity into a classroom of K-12 students who have never encountered someone with your credentials genuinely invested in their success, driving them toward standards they never imagined meeting.

If the idea of maintaining elite expectations for students feels unreasonable, this opportunity isn't for you.

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, allowing students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. The remaining time is dedicated to life skills, passion projects, and authentic development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor whose personal accomplishments demonstrate what's possible: someone capable of assessing group dynamics, establishing expectations, and guiding students through resistance, lack of focus, and uncertainty.

Teaching isn't your function. The AI manages instructional delivery. Your responsibility is motivation, coaching, and applying the same rigorous standards you've maintained for yourself. Forty percent of your time involves direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching to identify obstacles and establish challenging goals. Another forty percent is spent facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery rather than engagement alone. The final twenty percent focuses on morning sessions that set daily expectations and reinforce a culture where average performance isn't acceptable.

Your trajectory here emphasizes depth over advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's methodology and earning student trust. Within months, you become the person they allow to push them beyond self-imposed limits. The payoff isn't upward mobility. It's maintaining relationships with the same students across years, remaining in their corner as they mature. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September deliver a confident presentation to adults in May.

This position remains student-centered. Students are the objective, not a career stepping stone.

What You Will Be Doing
  • Conducting 1-on-1 and small-group coaching sessions leveraging Coachbot analytics and student performance data to identify barriers, establish ambitious objectives, and maintain accountability for execution
  • Facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, drawing on credible narratives from your own elite background, and evaluating mastery through Alpha's Test2

    Pass framework
  • Establishing campus-wide cultural expectations each morning through focused sessions that reinforce high-performance standards
  • Monitoring student development in real time and modifying coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
  • Cultivating trusted mentorship relationships with students and families through consistent high standards and documented motivation strategies
What You Won’t Be Doing
  • Delivering lessons, creating curriculum, or evaluating assignments — Alpha's AI-powered academic platform manages instruction; your focus is motivation
  • Presenting to large classrooms of 30 students (your work centers on intensive coaching with small groups, not broadcast instruction)
  • Supervising other personnel or pursuing administrative advancement (this position prioritizes direct student impact over organizational management)
  • Attending traditional faculty meetings or dealing with institutional bureaucracy (your schedule remains student-focused)
  • Reducing standards to achieve targets (if a student reaches 99%, your role is determining what prevented them from achieving 100%)
Performance Coach

Key Responsibilities

Lead outstanding student motivation, development, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's most demanding campuses.

Basic Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree
  • At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally…
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