Tutor, Alpha - $100,000/year USD at Crossover

The most meaningful support you can offer a student sitting at 99% of their weekly target is to hold the line. Not out of indifference, but because you know they can reach 100%, and accepting less would be the actual disservice.

You are not a traditional teacher. At Alpha, academic content is delivered through AI-powered adaptive learning platforms. There are no lectures, no textbooks, no whiteboard instruction. Motivation and life skills—elements that conventional schools treat as secondary—are your entire focus.

Consider a typical Tuesday. Half your day is spent facilitating one-hour workshops for a K-8 cohort, covering topics like public speaking, focus strategies, and how to give and receive meaningful feedback. The other half is dedicated to working with those same students individually or in small groups, reviewing their Coachbot analytics, and driving each one toward 100% completion of their weekly app goals through school currency, leaderboards, and the trust you've established with them.

Your success each quarter is measured by three metrics: every student in your cohort completes their weekly app goals, every student passes the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each workshop, and 90% or more report that they love you. Falling short on any one of these means the role hasn't been fulfilled.

The reward comes the day a student who claimed in September that they were terrible at math asks you to increase their target.

This is a full-time, on-site position at an Alpha campus. We recruit across the country, so job listings may appear in nearby cities where we do not yet have a campus.

Current openings at this salary level are located in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; and Park City, UT.

If you're drawn to a different Alpha campus, submit your application and indicate your preferred location—we'll review you for the relevant opening.

If you've coached youth sports, led a cabin at camp, or tutored a student on the verge of quitting, the final step before an offer is a full day on campus coaching actual Alpha students. If that's the part of the process you're most excited about, apply today.

What You Will Be Doing

• Facilitating one-hour life-skills workshops for K-8 cohorts, addressing public speaking, focus, and the practice of giving and receiving feedback
• Conducting daily 1:1 and small-group motivation sessions designed to guide every student to 100% of their weekly app goals, leveraging Coachbot analytics and Alpha's incentive structures (school currency, leaderboards)
• Delivering the Test2Pass mastery assessment for each life skill, then providing additional coaching to any student who does not pass until mastery is achieved
• Modifying the workshop playbook and creating new sessions as needed, ensuring the content resonates with both kindergarteners and 8th graders
• Serving as both the adult who upholds high expectations and the adult your students actively choose to confide in

What You Won’t Be Doing

• Teaching at a whiteboard, creating lesson plans for math and reading, or grading assignments; academic instruction is handled by the apps
• Conducting standardized test prep or being accountable for class-wide test performance
• Managing parent conferences, emails, and concerns; campus leadership handles all parent-facing communication
• Controlling large groups of 30 students simultaneously; cohorts are intentionally small and behavior support here is delivered through 1:1 coaching
• Passively monitoring students at computers; motivation work here is active and relational

Tutor Key Responsibilities

Ensure every student in your K-8 cohort completes their weekly learning goals, achieves mastery in each life skill, and finishes the year reporting that they loved school.

Basic Requirements

• Willing to work on-site at an Alpha campus in Scottsdale, AZ; Oklahoma City and Tulsa, OK; Nashville, TN; Dallas, Plano, Fort Worth, Houston, and Brownsville, TX; Springfield, MA; or Park City, UT - relocation assistance provided
• Bachelor's degree in any field
• At least 3 years of direct experience working with K-8 (elementary and middle school) students: classroom instruction, tutoring, athletic coaching, camp leadership, or youth program facilitation
• Comfortable allowing adaptive learning software to handle academic instruction while you focus on motivation and life-skills coaching
• A track record of high personal achievement—academic, athletic, or professional—that has made maintaining rigorous standards a natural practice rather than an affectation
• Stage presence sufficient to engage a room of 12-year-olds for an hour without needing to raise your voice
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without requiring visa sponsorship

Nice-to-have Requirements

• Youth sports coaching, debate, theater, camp leadership, or after-school program experience where you were directly accountable for students reaching a defined goal
• Experience delivering social-emotional learning (SEL) or durable-skills curricula
• A specific student you can name who transitioned from disengaged or resistant to fully invested, along with the precise intervention you used
• Regular use of generative AI tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini

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, W2 employee position with immediate access to benefits ( https://support.crossover.com/article/7581-w2-benefits-u-s-paychex-paid-only). All roles are year-long positions. The compensation level for this role is $100,000 USD/year. The payment period is weekly. Consult www.crossover.com/help-and-faqs for more details on this topic.

Crossover Job Code: LJ-4415-US-Albuquer-Tutor