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

You have accomplished difficult things. You have operated within genuine standards. You understand the distinction between "attempting" and delivering results. If you are ready to apply that discipline in a context where it reshapes a student's path, this position is designed for you.

Alpha School employs AI-driven 1:1 instruction, enabling students to complete core academics in roughly two hours daily. This structure liberates the remainder of the day for life-skill development, passion-led projects, and authentic personal growth. At our most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight. They need a credible mentor capable of assessing the environment, establishing expectations, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.

This is not a conventional teaching position. You will not deliver lectures, assign grades, or develop curriculum. You will coach. You will facilitate demanding life-skills workshops. You will leverage data to identify what is limiting a student's progress, then challenge them with intention and precision until they execute.

If you possess an elite credential and a history of elevating others' performance, we want to hear from you.

• Facilitate 1:1 and small-group coaching engagements that translate student objectives into reliable execution and trackable advancement
• Leverage analytics and individual goals to identify barriers and establish ambitious, personalized motivation strategies
• Conduct rigorous life-skills workshops grounded in authentic storytelling, guided reflection, and practical application, followed by mastery evaluation
• Facilitate daily opening sessions that establish culture, reinforce elevated expectations, and prepare students before work begins
• Build trusted mentor relationships with students and families through high standards, reliability, and clear judgment

• Conduct traditional classes, deliver lectures, or provide tutoring as a conventional instructor
• Develop curriculum, write lesson plans, or evaluate student assignments
• Supervise staff, oversee campus operations, or assume administrative leadership responsibilities
• Compromise standards to achieve short-term compliance or superficial success

This role exists to ensure students at Alpha's most demanding campuses remain highly motivated and accomplish sustained growth and life-skill mastery through elite, high-standards coaching.

• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least one documented elite marker (athletics, academics, career achievement, or elite coaching)
• Demonstrated experience in people-focused mentoring, coaching, or leadership that measurably improved others' performance
• Comfort working in high-accountability settings with explicit standards and consistent follow-through
• Capability to facilitate engaging, high-rigor group sessions and coach individuals with sound judgment
• Willingness to work full-time (40 hours/week) on‑site at Alpha's Austin campus
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S.

• Multiple elite markers with documented evidence of elevating standards and outcomes
• Experience applying data and analytics to inform coaching strategies and accountability structures
• Background in competitive firms, high-performance startups, or elite athletic programs with rigorous performance standards

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

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.

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

There is so much to cover for this exciting role, and space here is limited.

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  for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5831-US-Round Roc-Academic Coach.
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