Student Success Coach at Crossover

An AI can teach a six-year-old to read. It cannot make her care. Closing that gap is what you're here for.

At Alpha, students in grades K–3 complete academic work through AI-powered apps in two hours daily. As a Guide, you work with a single cohort band—K-1 (Kindergarten and 1st grade) or 2-3 (2nd and 3rd grade)—and adjust your energy, pacing, and workshop approach to that group. There are no lectures. No worksheets. For half your day, you facilitate one-hour life-skills workshops covering public speaking, focus, and feedback skills. A playbook is provided, but high performers in this role customize it for their cohort and create new activities when needed. The other half of your day is spent in 1:1 or small-group sessions, analyzing Coachbot data, and coaching each student to reach 100% of their weekly app targets. Warmth earns trust. Trust lets you push. Pushing tells them you believe in their capacity.

A successful quarter means every student completes their weekly app goals, passes the Test2Pass for every life-skills workshop, and 90%+ report that they love you. Fail any of those three and the job wasn't done. In your first year, you master the playbook; once you demonstrate you can hold the bar, you become eligible for Lead Guide, where you mentor new hires while continuing to lead your own cohort.

If you prefer traditional teaching, need a fully scripted curriculum, or think warmth and rigor are incompatible, this role isn't for you. If you've been an early-elementary teacher who excelled at circle time, a camp counselor for young children, a youth sports coach, or a children's theater performer, the final interview step is a shadow day coaching live Alpha students. Apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-3 cohorts on public speaking, focus, feedback, and other foundational skills, customizing the playbook to fit your group rather than following it verbatim.
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group coaching sessions to ensure every student stays on track for weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics, Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards), and the trust you've built with each child.
• Delivering the Test2Pass, Alpha's mastery-based assessment, for each life skill and coaching students who don't pass until they achieve mastery.
• Meeting kindergarteners at their developmental level with songs, stories, movement, and playfulness while holding second and third graders to real, quantifiable expectations.
• Being the warm adult kids are excited to see at drop-off AND the one who won't let them settle for less than their best.

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering whiteboard lessons. Academic instruction happens through the apps, not through you.
• Creating curriculum from the ground up. Alpha supplies the playbook; you animate it.
• Passively monitoring kids on computers. Motivation here is proactive, personalized, and sustained.
• Adjusting a weekly goal downward so a child can meet it. If a student is falling behind, the solution is supporting the student, not lowering the target.
• Grading homework, running standardized test prep, or handling parent communication. Campus Leads manage parent-facing responsibilities, and the other tasks don't exist here.

Student Success Coach Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-3 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved you.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in La Jolla (San Diego), Lake Forest (Orange County), Palo Alto, Piedmont, San Francisco, Santa Monica, or South Bay (LA), CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, Miami, Miami Beach, or Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; or Boston, MA (relocation support provided).
• Bachelor's degree in any subject.
• At least 3 years working directly with children ages 4 to 9 (early-elementary teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program leadership).
• A specific example you can describe of motivating a young child to a hard goal: the goal, what you did, and the outcome.
• Willingness to let AI handle the instructional content while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching.
• Willingness to hold high standards with students even when they push back.
• Legally authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship.

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Experience in youth athletics coaching, children's theater, camp leadership, Montessori/progressive early education, or after-school programs where you were directly responsible for motivating young kids toward specific goals.
• Personal history of high achievement (academic, athletic, or professional), such that holding others to a hard bar is a pattern, not a posture.
• Natural performer's presence with little kids: the ability to hold a room of kindergarteners through voice, silliness, and movement.
• Track record of turning shy or resistant little kids into confident, active participants.

About Alpha

Want to join a learning rebellion that’s transforming the traditional classroom?

Alpha School is on a mission to reshape education with a bold approach that harnesses AI to accelerate learning and unleash student potential.

They don’t play by the old rules.

Alpha is creating a new paradigm where students master core academics in just two hours a day, freeing up time for hands-on, passion-driven learning that truly prepares them for the real world.

Alpha School is rewriting the rules of education.

Sounds too good to be true? It’s not.

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 (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 $60 USD/hour, which equates to $120,000 USD/year assuming 40 hours per week and 50 weeks per year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-5634-US-Elgin-StudentSuccess.025