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

Job in San Francisco, San Francisco County, California, 94199, USA
Listing for: Crossover
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-08-10
Job specializations:
  • Education / Teaching
    Career & Life Skills Coaching, Youth Development
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 150000 USD Yearly USD 150000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

You see refusing to lower the bar as the most generous act you can offer a student. You've achieved in domains most people only observe from a distance: elite-level competition, a distinguished degree from a top university, a role at a highly selective firm, or a venture you launched and grew yourself. Now imagine channeling that standard into a room of K-12 students who've never had someone with your credentials pushing them toward levels they didn't realize were within reach.

If the idea of holding students to elite expectations feels too demanding, this isn't for you.

Alpha leverages AI-driven 1-on-1 instruction, allowing students to complete core academics in roughly two hours each day. The remaining hours are devoted to life skills, self-directed passion work, and meaningful development. At Alpha's most rigorous campuses, students require more than oversight—they need a credible mentor whose track record defines the standard. Someone capable of reading the environment, shaping the culture, and guiding them through resistance, distraction, and uncertainty.

Your role is not instructional. AI delivers the academic content. You motivate, coach, and enforce the same rigorous expectations you've applied to yourself. Forty percent of your time is spent in direct 1-on-1 and small-group coaching, identifying obstacles and establishing ambitious objectives. Another forty percent goes to facilitating structured life-skills workshops designed for mastery, not engagement for its own sake. The final twenty percent is devoted to morning kickoffs that set a tone where mediocrity is unacceptable.

The trajectory here is depth, not advancement. You begin by mastering Alpha's approach and earning credibility with students. Within months, you become the person they trust to push them beyond their perceived limits. The payoff isn't a title change—it's continuity with the same students, year over year, growing with your support. It's witnessing a student who avoided eye contact in September confidently address a roomful of adults by May.

This position remains student-facing. Students are the purpose, not a path to something else. If your motivation for leaving your current role is the mission rather than the resume line, submit your application now.

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

    Pass framework
  • Establishing the campus culture each morning through focused kickoffs that emphasize high-performance standards
  • Monitoring student progress continuously and refining coaching approaches based on data rather than intuition
  • Cultivating trusted mentorship 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 a full classroom of 30 students (your work centers on high-touch coaching in small settings, not large-group teaching)
  • Supervising other staff or pursuing an administrative career path (this role prioritizes direct student impact over organizational advancement)
  • Attending faculty meetings or navigating institutional bureaucracy (your hours remain dedicated to students)
  • Compromising standards to meet targets (if a student reaches 99%, your task is determining what prevented 100%)
Academic Success Coach

Key Responsibilities

Drive exceptional student motivation, growth, and life-skill mastery at Alpha's highest-expectation campuses.

Basic Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree
  • At least one instance of exceptional achievement in a highly selective, globally recognized domain (examples: national or international competition medals, top-tier university with distinction, highly selective firm or fellowship, elite performing arts institution, or founding and…
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