Student Success Coach, Alpha - $120,000/year USD at Crossover

• $120,000 annual W2 compensation, distributed weekly; full health, dental, and vision coverage begins immediately
• On-campus position at an Alpha K-8 school in Beverly Hills, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance available)

Your role is not instruction. It is motivation.

The kindest thing you can offer a student who reached 99% of their target is the refusal to accept it as finished. If that principle feels harsh, this role is not for you. If it resonates because maintaining high expectations is how you demonstrate belief in a student's potential, read on.

At Alpha, academic learning happens through AI-driven applications. No classroom lectures. No traditional textbooks. Approximately 60% of your time is spent facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions on topics like public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback. Around 30% of your time involves individual or small-group check-ins, where you analyze student progress via Coachbot data and guide each one toward their weekly application targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to data analysis that shapes your coaching strategy for the week ahead. You will not follow a rigid script; workshop frameworks are your foundation, and top performers customize them or create new content when gaps appear.

Success in a semester means at least 90% of your cohort consistently meets weekly app targets, demonstrates quantifiable improvement in life skills via Test2Pass, and rates their experience with you at 4 out of 5 or higher. Falling short on any one of these three measures means falling short of the role. Once you demonstrate your ability to maintain these standards, advancement to Lead Guide becomes possible — mentoring new Guides while continuing to lead a cohort — and eventually to Campus Lead, overseeing an entire school and managing family relationships.

If you are drawn to conventional teaching methods, prefer ready-made lesson plans, or see warmth and rigor as conflicting values, this position will not suit you. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performing in front of middle schoolers, the final interview stage is a full on-campus day coaching actual Alpha students. If that prospect energizes you, submit your application now.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills sessions for K-8 groups covering public speaking, focus, feedback exchange, and other foundational competencies, customizing the existing framework and creating new modules when you identify unmet needs
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching meetings that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's motivational tools (campus currency, performance rankings), and your personal connection with each student to overcome reluctance
• Overseeing Test2Pass administration (Alpha's competency-based evaluation) for each life skill, and continuing to coach students who fall short until they demonstrate mastery
• Adjusting your approach across a broad developmental spectrum, from kindergarteners requiring dynamic, kinetic engagement to eighth graders needing candid conversation and clear accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students who are underperforming, and modifying your coaching tactics for the upcoming week based on what the data reveals

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering instruction at a board; all academic content is embedded in the software, not in your teaching
• Developing a complete curriculum from nothing; you begin with an established framework and personalize it with your own presence and narrative skills
• Passively monitoring students on devices; motivation in this role is proactive, direct, and sustained
• Working through institutional red tape to secure support for struggling learners; when a student needs additional coaching, you decide and implement immediately
• Evaluating assignments, facilitating standardized test preparation, or handling family outreach; Campus Leads manage parent communication, and the other tasks do not exist in this model

Student Success Coach Key Responsibilities

Drive every student in your K-8 cohort to meet their weekly learning targets, achieve mastery in each life skill, and finish the year saying they valued their time with you.

Basic Requirements

• Able to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Beverly Hills, CA; Palo Alto, CA; Piedmont, CA; Greenwich, CT; Boca Raton, FL; Fort Lauderdale, FL; Miami Beach, FL; Palm Beach Gardens, FL; Chicago, IL; Raleigh, NC; Portland, OR (relocation assistance provided)
• Bachelor's degree in any discipline
• Minimum 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 students (teaching, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can share of pushing a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: the objective itself, your actions, and the result
• Comfort with AI managing academic instruction while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Authorization to work in the US without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate programs, camp leadership, theater, or extracurricular initiatives where you held direct accountability for motivating children toward defined outcomes
• Demonstrated record of personal excellence (academic, athletic, or career-related) that makes holding others to demanding standards a natural habit rather than an adopted stance
• Communication and presentation skills capable of engaging a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to escalate volume
• History of converting unmotivated or resistant students into engaged contributors

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-5607-US-Hialeah-StudentSuccess