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

• $120,000 annual W2 salary with weekly pay; health, dental, and vision coverage from day one
• Full-time on-site role at Alpha K-8 schools in Beverly Hills, 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)

This is not a teaching role. This is motivation work.

If a student reaches 99% of their target and you're tempted to call it complete, this role isn't for you. But if refusing to lower the bar is precisely how you communicate belief in what a student can achieve, continue reading.

Alpha students complete academic learning through AI-driven applications—no traditional lectures or textbooks. Roughly 60% of your time involves facilitating one-hour workshops focused on life skills: public speaking, concentration, and constructive feedback exchange. Another 30% is spent in individual or small-group sessions where you use Coachbot analytics to track student progress and drive each one toward their weekly application targets. The remaining 10% is dedicated to analyzing performance data and translating it into the next week's coaching strategy. You will not follow rigid scripts; workshops provide a foundation that the strongest performers customize and expand when they identify unmet needs.

A successful semester means at least 90% of your cohort achieves 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 metrics means the role's core objectives have not been met. Once you establish your ability to maintain these standards, advancement opportunities open to Lead Guide—where you mentor newer Guides while continuing to manage a cohort—and eventually to Campus Lead, overseeing an entire school and managing parent engagement.

This position is not suitable if you prefer traditional pedagogy, expect ready-made curriculum, or view compassion and rigor as contradictory. If your background includes athletic coaching, camp counseling, tutoring where you refused to let students give up, or performance work that commanded the attention of middle schoolers, the final interview stage is a full day on an Alpha campus coaching actual 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 culture, and other essential competencies—modifying the existing framework and creating new modules when you identify missing elements
• Conducting daily individual and small-group coaching conversations that drive every student toward their weekly app targets, leveraging Coachbot data, Alpha's reward structures (campus currency, performance boards), and your personal rapport 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 achieve mastery
• Shifting your approach across a broad developmental spectrum—from kindergarteners requiring dynamic, kinetic engagement to eighth graders who respond to direct conversation and personal accountability
• Analyzing weekly cohort metrics in Coachbot, pinpointing students falling behind target, and recalibrating your methods for the upcoming week according to what the data reveals

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Delivering content at a whiteboard; the apps handle academic instruction, not you
• Constructing a complete curriculum without guidance; you begin with an established framework and inject your own personality and narrative skill
• Passively monitoring students on devices; the motivation model here is dynamic, individualized, and continuous
• Working through layers of administrative approval to secure support for at-risk students; when a student requires additional coaching, you decide and implement immediately
• Assessing assignments, conducting standardized exam preparation, or handling parent correspondence; Campus Leads manage family communication, and the other tasks simply don't 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 expressing genuine enthusiasm for their time with you.

Basic Requirements

• Available to work on-site at an Alpha campus located in Beverly Hills, 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 of 3 years' direct experience working with K-8 students (including classroom instruction, coaching, tutoring, camp counseling, or youth program management)
• A concrete example you can articulate of pushing a K-8 student toward a challenging objective: what the goal was, your specific actions, and the result
• Comfort allowing AI to manage instructional delivery while you concentrate on motivation and life-skills development
• Authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Background in youth sports coaching, debate, camp direction, theater, or extracurricular programs where you bore direct accountability for motivating children toward defined outcomes
• Demonstrated record of exceptional personal achievement (in academics, athletics, or career) that shows maintaining high standards for others is intrinsic rather than performative
• Command of narrative and presentation skills sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without escalating volume
• History of converting disinterested or oppositional students into engaged contributors

About Alpha

Join the team building school around student growth

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

Roles with real student impact: Alpha hires teachers (guides), operators, admissions experts, school & curriculum leaders, and remote team members.

Education work that pays like it matters: Alpha offers six-figure roles for people ready to help build a radically better school experience.

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

Alpha is where you can do the most meaningful work of your career.

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-Clearwat-StudentSuccess